Renting a Ice Diving houes

[mcdiver]

I will try to remember that next time my dive buddy (Tim Thomas) stomps on my head as a means to get by body and equipment through the spear hole.

I was helping Tim conduct an ice diving class on Square Lake back in January of 2004 when a nearby fisherman came over and inquired about retrieving his glasses that had fallen through his spear hole.  The next morning we came out prior to the class, I put the gear on, tied the line to my harness and in the hole I went.  Tim then lowered my gear into the hole where I proceeded to put it on, and yes, I had to drop below the ice on occassions to put the gear on.

So you obviously can dive from a spear house, but why in the "h e double hockey sticks" would you want to unless you had too?