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Comment by Dale Harris on December 17, 2009 at 9:21am

COOL PHOTO.  COULD YOU HEAR AND FEEL THE ICE CRACKING WHILE YOU WHERE UNDER?  Weird isn't it?   It looks like you were diving in a mess of broken ice.  I worked under 8" - 10" of solid ice out in Oklahoma back in 84.  The entire lake was froze over.  At first, the sound and feeling of the cracking ice had me a bit spooked.  As I was working and filming next to a cracked dam. I figured the dam had a lot of additional weight pressing against it and this feeze was the first in anyones recollection where the entire lake froze up. So my thoughts and haunts were, that damn dam breaking apart. I also learned not to do a lot of free flowing above the surface and dry everything out between dives.   But it was a good 9 day experience.  I was the only inwater diver on that job. 52' and inwater Decos. Repets on top of that. On the 4th. day I GOT SMART and built a sled for the camera and sent it up and down the dam wall. I made a jump if special attention or more controlled filming needed in any particular area. Otherwise it was sun up till sun down on the Ice, filming every square inch. What's your job during that photo?   Locks and Dams in the river?

Comment by Bill Gardner on December 16, 2009 at 4:35pm

Great photo. Have had experience under ice, on one job I kept freaking out my tender by blowing up under the ice for fun (heavy gear) and making him drag me to the ladder. It started off by my exhaust freezing over- freaked me the first time.