Why YOU Should Ice Dive 🥶❄️| Friday Feature 

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portable smelt shanty with heater...hell ya!

Anything below 16c you need a drysuit, hood and gloves. Maybe a 7mm with a 5mm shortie over might work down to 12c. Bellow 5c make sure the gloves are dry too. Then you will be completely warm during the dive. In fact once you have put your kit on you will be so warm your be desperate to get in the water to cool down

@@stephens2r338 i recently had a dive at 15c for approximately 35 minutes with a 7mm rental suit (it had holes lots of holes) it was fun tho.

@@stephens2r338 nah I've dived down in Tassie in Australia down at 11c in a 7mm wetsuit. It's not all that bad.

@@DRXParadox Its all personal preference, fitness, body fat and body shape. A skinny woman may freeze in 18c. I normally dive in 5c for up to two hours in a drysuit with no problems. In a 5mm l can handle max 1 hour at 15c, a little longer with a hoodie. Remember temperature varies depending upon depth too so a 35 minute dive where 5 minutes were at 11c and the rest was at 20c doesn't count. . I can tell you that a 20 minute deco stop hanging on a rope at 4m in 15c water isn't much fun

@@stephens2r338 I was diving where the surface water temp was 11c, got down to 7c at 24m. Thanks for your concern though man with all the remembering temperature changes at depth etc, someone with 3 dives could have told me that.

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Your dogs 🐶🐶 are so super cute😍

@@annaszekely3013 there actually cats dress up as dogs!

More dogs makes everything better.

William Drumm Very. Takes about 12 seconds to pull someone in from a 50ft line under the ice with a few guys.

@@JoshTRavels1 oh right, I was actually just thinking about getting the gear on and off, but that makes total sense.

Although they both have overhead restrictions, cave driving and ice driving are totally different. One's in the dark and if you get lost or your torch stops working then you die. Anything goes wrong under the ice then tug the line and they will pull you out in a few seconds. You never just follow someone else's line onto a cave. What would happen if they removed it after their dive while you were still inside? They didn't know had followed them in. You would be lost then dead. To become an ice diver takes one day with two dives. Full cave diver takes a minimum 3/4 weeks. 4 hours studying with two dives every day. Very different training, different back up equipment, different environmental dangers and different fining techniques are needed. It doesn't improve your diving skills. You learn new one's . As for is it worth it, ice diving sure... cave diving maybe not! It's the only course where you are constantly asked if your sure you want to do this and a typical dive briefing often starts with "the dive we are doing today, two people died here last year" There's a reason why PADI won't go near cave diving

@@stephens2r338Yes, you are absolutely right. In terms of tech. diving PADI courses are not the best option. That's why I'm not PADI. Reason is, that there are only two PADI divecenters in my country. So most of my friends are IANTD. Including me. But it doesn't mean that PADI can't teach you tech. courses. It is just not so common here. But in US it should not be a big deal I suppose. Right? And believe me. Nobody would teach you using a tug line under the ice here. You would get nowhere. First corner in a quarry and line would get stuck. We are using a fixed lines and reels. There is no fool, who would remove a fixed line here. The same rules like in a cave.

@@petrsedlak4761 please show me the padi cave diver course, there isn't one and for good reason. I'm also an IANTD full cave diver. If you are one too then you know that any fixed lines are placed so far into the cave that there in complete darkness and can't be found by accident. Its not possible to see them without a torch and you can't see your exit. You use your own/share a jump line in from the entrance to tie on to the main line and put a line marker down to make sure no one touches it. There could be many diver teams using the same main line. Quarry diving is not cave diving , you can always surface . Plus you often get to know your local dive area well. This type of complacency could get you killed if there's ice. If you lose the main line could you find it again in poor viability? What about without a mask or broken fin strap? Do you have your own personal jump line?don't have a buddy? Have you tried? Welcome to week two of cave diver training.... you have 1 hour to find the line and no you can't have your mask and fins back!! Im also a PADI ice diver Instructor. Ice diving is just making a hole in the ice and making sure your linked physically with a line at all times to that hole. You are in constant communication with the surface. One tug for ok, two for more line. Three for pull me out quickly. No idiot would dive in a place where therrs only a 2m exit with the possibility of not finding it again in an emergency. Lost mask, poor visability. Rule one = one continues line back to the surface so you can get back with only touch and your eyes closed

Whisky on the rocks? Speaking of abominations.

@Leopold Bloom 🤔..agree, personally I prefer to not put ice in any drinks, diluted the taste/flavor 😎But.... Some people prefer in this way to prevent dehydration from alcohol but same result is when you drink water separate.

Valid point! 😁