Switching Divers Under the Ice.

[DetectorGuy]

This is probably going to get me arrested by the Dive Police... But this website needs some controversy to wake it up. Nate and I started this Honey Badger Dive Team a few years ago with the premise that we just don't care. It's not that we don't care about anything... but at times we are unconventional, anti establishment, and most times thinking outside the box. We have received formal training from several certifying agencies, and have put that training to use often. We have also adopted unorthodox skill sets used by different people, in different situations.
We routinely go ice diving with just the two of us. We have practiced the disconnected diver drills with just the two of us. We have practiced in-water re-compression. We recently had a third ice diver with us & did something that we haven't tried before. We switched divers while under the ice sheet. This is not a hard task in 40' visibility, but is frowned upon by most dive agencies. I would say it is not a safe (or smart) way to do things, but we may have a need to do this in the future, and I am glad we tried it. Again I am not condoning this as a 'best practice' but wanted to share a video of it anyway...