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Read Beneath the Crystal Ceiling by Todd Smith.
Best book on Ice diving that I've read.

Greg Z.

CaptnDale@ao*.co* wrote:

> In a message dated 10/21/00 9:29:34 PM EST, Trimixjoe writes:
>
> << If you ask the typical ice diving instructor (Being Ice Diving
Instructor
> Certified Myself) how to ice dive and what is the proper equipment to use for
> ice diving, he/she will have you rigged for bungy jumping. Ice diving has had
> very little written on the subject, and the procedures that are being used
> today are limiting which are set up for nit-wit divers. As Instructors we not
> allowed to step outside the standards it would be a violation. There are
> better ways of ice diving then being used by the training agencies today and
> it can help those already certified in ice diving to discuss over the
> Internet better procedures, and equipment.  >>
>
> I agree that some of the prodedures being recommended by the agencies are
> stupid but I do not think they are dangerous.  Unfortunately, some of the
> prodeedures being recommended on the internet by persons who, obviously, have
> little or no experience in this type of diving have the potential to create
> dangerous situations.  My point is that not everyone who posts in this forum
> has a clue.  Cave diving does not equal ice diving.  If an instructor does
> not think that he can adequately train his students within the standards of
> his agency, he is bound, ethically, to go outside those standards.  He needs
> to exceed those standards, teach an unsanctioned course or find a different
> agency.  I repeat, if you want to learn to ice dive find an instructor you
> trust who actually is an ice diver.
>
> Safe diving,
> Dale
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