TRINITY'S 3rd annual 2012/2013 icing challenge

[popolarbear]

ok.ok. give me a minute. these things take time. im almost recovered from the shelter fiasco that did me in sat.

[Shooter]

That picture wasn't at the superdome was it? When the power went out last night I wondered if you had been there...... Maybe your brother works there?

Did you find anything diving?  ???

John and I went diving on Sat. First ice dive of the year for me. My last dive was in the warm blue waters, Ice diving just doesn't compare. We had a mission and a purpose for our dive other than beating our chests and saying what big men we are  :.  John is working on the videos. I think we can post some of what we filmed, Too bad we couldn't get any footage from the real film crew.  :-X

[DetectorGuy]

On Friday I was searching online for some intel on possible dive locations in Mille Lacs for all of us to hit on the 23rd, and I ran into an article about a reality TV show about ice fishing getting filmed about 6 miles North of Isle at Fishermen's Warf. There were several news articles about it, so I mentioned it to Nate. Nate said that I should shoot them an e-mail and see if they want any underwater footage. Long story short... I spent a bit of time on the phone with the producer of the show Friday night & we met him at Fishermen's Warf Saturday morning. We suggested that the bottom structure would be better around Isle, but they had been filming and interviewing folks around Fishermen's Warf, and so much of the show is going to be in that area. They told us that there is a large crack in the ice that has a bridge over it, and that this bridge needs constant movement and maintenence. They asked us if we would get some underwater video of the ice crack to be used in their reality show. We were all set up with a shelter and everything we typically use for an ice dive, but the producer lined up a big heated ice house to be brought over to the dive area for us to change in and warm up in. I won the coin toss and got to dive first. I video'd the bottom of the crack, and it was really cool to see the ice jambed up like that. The ice was pancaked up about 8' thick in spots on the sides of the crack and re-froze in all sorts of shapes. There were narrow swim throughs and it was really something to see. I have only seen frazzle ice from below one other time, and that was no where near this gnarly to look at. After the first couple dives they brought us hot turkey sandwiches with mashed potatoes and gravy for lunch. Then they wanted us to video (from below) an ice auger coming through the ice. We set up the protocol where I would be below and where the hole would be cut. When the auger started up I couldn't help but wonder if it was going to be drilled in front of me or through me. We got the shot for them and then took several takes of minnows being jigged from below. I went back and took some more video of the ice crack and we packed up just before dark. We met the producer at the production managers makeshift office to review the footage we took, signed a couple waivers each and got a copy of the video we took. After that the producer treated Nate and I to a big prime rib dinner.

Here is a link to the Fishermen's Warf press release page that has links to several articles about the reality show:

[Hydro]

Nice job team honey-boo-boo 

[popolarbear]

ahhh. ok, im burnt out... too much digital work for my day. enjoy.

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by the way i was really pleased with how seamless terry turned out. ive got that saved as separate layer

SSS

[DetectorGuy]

your world frightens and confuses me ???

[Terry]

My last dive was in the warm blue waters, Ice diving just doesn't compare.

                              Now Nate, we Minnesota icers dont really want to hear that kind of talk, especially jumping from a shack, your not dead yet, you can still jump the ice. Sure its not the Carib. not even overhauled, but we can drive/dive there every weekend, not something I can do with the Carib, maybe if I owned a sign company 
                              Way to score John! Good work, can you make sure you post a link to see the underwater footage, once they edit it. I remember Joe filming the chainsaw coming thru from underneith, being pretty cool to see. So you guys are planning on staying up at Millacs overnight right?
                               We jumped No. Arm on Tonka last Sat. solid bottom, but real clean, ice scooper and a few bottles, that was it. Had 19.5-20" with all of 17" being nice and clear. Was a little sheepish at first, without tracks and the track record Tonka's getting this season, but no ridges, and no channels, she's stays pretty nice and consistant, just short of 20".
                               Popo thats some pretty nice work! Not sure about Joes pic, though is he a leafy sea dragon?

[DetectorGuy]

Here is a link to a portion of the video we took:


I took 27 GB of HD video for them, and this rough edit is just 1.7 GB of that video. I cropped a portion of it to eliminate the vignetting and turned the contrast up. I was using the 48 frames per second instead of the 60 frames per second to try and eliminate the wide angle aspect. The viz was about 30'. The depth was about 23'. The ice thickness was about 24". The temp right below the ice sheet was 33 degrees and the temp at the bottom was 36 degrees. The air temp was -14 when we arrived and -10 when we jumped in. Air temp warmed up to 5 degrees in the afternoon.

Joe Murphey the producer did not tell us when the pilot of the series will be on the air, but when it does it will be on "TRU TV" (channel 204 if you have dish network). Jupiter Entertainment is the same production company that produced The Discovery Channel's "Sons of Guns" show.

[scubafreek864]

Popo,

Is that me in the shark?  LOL  ;D

[popolarbear]

yep thats you(scuba freak)..as best as i could with images I had laying around

, I have realized that I have very few if any pictures of hydro that actually show his face. all have shades and scarf and a hat!dude is always hidden