Ice Diving

[Andy]

Just got back from Ice Diving with Ricky (Thorper) .... what a hoot!!

http://www.badviz.com/Galleries/IceD...s/C69_jpg.html

[gingercoastie]

Great fotos, and bye the way.....you must be nuts, freezing water for gods sake, whats wrong with you man

[stedj]

wow great pics nice and clear better than egypt ,. were they altitude dives ? night dive would have been nice and scarey! wat temp was the water is that right it doesnt go below 4 as the ice freezing gives of heat although 4 is cold enuf? well done , would like some of that my self who did u book with stedj

[Andy]

The water temp was 4'C but in the first 0.25m it was 0'C. The dive was at 1000m altitude and the viz was 80m. The photos do not do it justice. Even though the lake was only shallow this is some of the best diving I have ever done. It was really different. Great crack all around.

We booked with www.taucherhof.de

[stedj]

cheers andy looks great how much did it cost?i take it u traveled there ur self and how long was u there

[thorper]

We were away 4 nights in total. Not 100% on the cost yet - the diving and the accomodation in Aitrang was pretty good value. 2 nights in hotels, petrol, beer, food & so on pushed up the cost somewhat. Curiously the most expensive night was drinking in Belgium - hotel beer prices I suspect!

All round a top trip, & well worth doing.

Our trip went something like this:

Day 1: Drive Portsmouth > Namur, Belgium.
Evening 1: Beers in Belgium

Day 2: Drive Namur > Aitrang, Germany
Spent 2 days in Aitrang doing the diving. Lots of fun all round!!
Website for the divecentre is http://www.taucherhof.de

Day 3 (evening): Drive Aitrang > Stuttgart.
Few beers etc....

Day 4: Drive home!