Ice diving

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I talked to one guy that did a 600 foot ice dive at night, He said he freaked out when he walked out of the shelter and could see the glow of the divers light on the horizon! He ran in and pulled the diver back to the hole and they since stopped diving that far. Depending on conditions, I'll go 150 max horizontal in the best condition. I don't know how deep I'm willing to go in relation to the horizontal.

One thing is poly is very buoyant so your signals from the bottom just pull the arch out of the line. If you must signal from over 150, your going to need to be at the ice and pull hard.

From my experience, I don't think I rescue line over 200 would work, the drag would be so large that you would have 200 out but the curve back to the hole would shorten it to much less and you could be inside the lost diver. I've had this happen on a low vis OW dive using a reel to get back to the boats anchor. I didn't keep the tension high enough and I crossed my own line! I thought I was swimming around the anchor line and I wasn't.