Did that in the U.P. of Mi. A branch of a river about 180 ft+ wide. 8 ft deep and chunks of ice floating. 15 degrees out. We kept going back a forth across it. 4 sleds wide. We had a blast. Went to the store and purchased a cheap box camera and went back to take pics. LOL Reason I know how deep it was because there was a fire built on the shore where a 15 year old kid was trying to get warm after sinking his Mother's sled there. He took off all of his clothes and swam down and hooked a rope on it so they could get it out. It was about 20 miles to the nearest town (Seney). Kid was hypothermic. Could barely talk. The other people there were trying to thaw out his clothes which were froze solid.
One time a friend of mine was on a lake going at a high speed and one of his skis caught a loop of barb wire in the ice and pretty much totaled his Summit
If it were up to me anybody who goes through the ice knowingly driving a smowmobile in these conditons should have to pay for the cost of their rescue. Same for the people who go through the ice on Lake Simcoe with their trucks, ATV'S and snowmobiles when the ice conditions are bad in the early winter and spring. I've spent most my life ice fishing and snowmobiling and working on the ice and I've learned to recognize dangerous conditions and to respect and avoid them.
In America they definitely already do... But water-skipping like this actually isn't nearly as dangerous as it looks. As long as the guy on the sled know what they are doing and pin it, they will be just fine. People literally race watercross on snowmobiles.
I can say this is one hellava rush ! I have stopped doing this as I got older because I realize you can be dead in 10 minutes if u go in and can’t get out of cold water
Have a cottage In that area, my neighbor came across 2 guys walking soaking wet freezing. She explained they had deposited there machines in the lake A.
Idiots should be thrown in jail and heavily fined do you think that sled will never quit. I lost my daughter after her snowmobile went thru he ice at night she drowned.
