Ice diving escapades of Mutt & Jeff

[jbd]

Ckharlan and I decided to go diving today. It has been fairly cold recently and this morning when I headed out to the lake it was 26 degrees F with a nice breeze. When I got there I found that there was ice on the lake!!

Being the intrepid divers we are we decided we would dive anyways---since "ck" has apparently read a book or pamphlet about ice diving. It was kind of tough getting a hole in the ice using big rocks to knock a hole in the ice. We had some rope from the rocking excursion with Kymermaid divr so we tied it to the trailer hitch and dropped it through the hole. The holes was only about 2.5 ft in diameter but we finally got through.

Surface water temp was 40 and at 20 feet it was 36. Viz was 4 to 5 feet. "ck's" cheap regulator started free flowing shortly after the dive started so we fiddled around trying to fix that for about 4 minutes. Its a good thing he learned how to buddy breath last year.

"ck" was lead diver with the compass and took a left turn at Albecurque( i.e. into shallow water) I got him turned around and we headed back to the deep water. I noticed that "ck" was missing so I did the standard look around walk about and then headed to the surface to see if he was there( which he was)

All in all it was a reasonable dive for local Ky lakes. I found out later that "ck" had the pamphlet but has yet to read it.

The drysuits did keep us warm

 

[CincyBengalsFan]

But those ScubaPro Piston regs are GREEEAATTT......in cold water...LMAO.

What type of knot did you guys use on the "hitch"? Square?

I was at Cumberland (Somerset) and Laurel today and they were not frozen. You must have been at a small pond or real small lake(pond) for it to be frozen right now.

I sure hope CK thinks about that enviromental kit for his reg or goes with a diaphragm or maybe a sherwood. Of course I don't know if those are approved by certain agencies.

Did you look for your buddy for up to one minute or did you just wing it your own way to find him?

What about that pamphlet? Was it published by DIR or what?

 

[Big-t-2538]

good to hear that you guys finally got wet again....but the story almost sounds like the tale of monkey's and soemthing with footballs.

Anyway...good to hear I shouldn't be buying a scuba-pro as the water is generally colder up here. BTW, how did you guys get seperated...good to see you both found each other.

 

[CincyBengalsFan]

Big-t-2538 once bubbled...
but the story almost sounds like the tale of monkey's and soemthing with footballs.

LOL...

I don't sale ScubaPro but it's a fine regulator if you get the enviromental kit for it. My suggestions have always been to buy a Sherwood or Genesis that is already sealed and it was designed from the begining to be sealed. So performance always stays at an optimum. Sherwood was making valves and regulators over a 100 yrs ago for other industries like automotive and trains, etc.... No other manufacturer in the entire Industry can say this...So....I Love Sherwood.

 

[jbd]

didn't free flow. The ice was only 1/8 to 3/16 inch thick and broken by the wind. We had figured it would be a really nice day for diving since it was supposed to be in the 60's and sunny. We were a bit surprised to arrive at the lake and find the skin of ice on the lake.

The overall impression we had was that with all the little problems we had the dive was probably more trouble than it was worth--hence the post.

I was interested in diving at this time of year thinking that the viz would have been better than what it was. I was looking more for 12 to 15 feet instead of the 4 to 5 that we had.

 

[CTurtle]

doing something they've NEVER done before & not reading the directions (or taking a class) before attempting to go into the unknown....
Thank goodness we didn't have to send the Search and Rescue team out!!!

 

[jbd]

that does seem to be the typical male way of doing things. Kind of the Tim Allen personna

 

[CincyBengalsFan]

jbd once bubbled...
"ck's" cheap regulator started free flowing shortly after the dive started so we fiddled around trying to fix that for about 4 minutes. Its a good thing he learned how to buddy breath last year.
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So know your saying it didn't free flow or what?

 

[ckharlan66]

No free flows occured. JBD was just making fun of me.

Chad

 

[CincyBengalsFan]

O.K.