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I've done ice diving, but never DIR ice diving. I've always done it a la PADI. To do it DIR, keep your harness and wings the same. The only thing that needs to change to dive in ice-water is the size of your clips. Put Big bolt snaps on everything. Of course your regs are environmentally sealed with a low IP. Now comes the line laying. I've always done this a la PADI with a pain in the butt harness and a big rope. The way suggested to me by DIR ice divers is to dive it like a cave. Instead, drop a line with a 15 lbs weight on it to the bottom. Have a javex jug on the line floating in the hole, and secure the "dry" end of the line to the ice with an ice screw. Now decend the drop line, and tie your reel off and you're ice diving. People who are cave trained (not me) know how to do this. Hope that helps ss -----Original Message----- From: Matthew R Bauer [mailto:laocoon@et*.or*] Sent: October 16, 2000 10:50 PM To: techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: Ice diving Somebody want to give me the dir approach to ice diving? Matt Bauer -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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