I'm in!
I'm not much for spudding on and off the ice......I like it to be thick enough to support a Mack truck :Rofl
When I was a volunteer search and rescue diver for Delta and Schoolcraft counties, we did a good amount of ice rescue training.
One drill was to be fully suited up in a ice survival suit and begin walking on thin ice until you broke through. Then the re enactment scene began, a "passerby/dive team member" would make the call for help and that would bring (in a few minutes) two fully suited up dive team members who would save you, by either a aluminum extension ladder, a small jon boat or a rope. Every member got their opportunity of walking on the thin ice and being rescued.
Another part of ice training was spending 2- 30 minute dives under the ice in full gear, attempting to locate victim (there was none, just doing the drill correctly was the reason) then after 30 minutes the ground crew would grab your tethered rope after you pulled hard on it 3 times as a signal you found the body.....and run across the surface of the ice as fast as they can.....bringing diver and victim to the triangular hole for rescue.
Being under the ice is a very beautiful sight when in full suit and scuba.......not something I want to do without it.
