Vintage Dive Photos.

[sonofadiver]

--------- My dad was the second man to dive under the ice in Minnesota, They flipped a coin and he lost the flip, so he was second one to go in under the ice. At the time suits were in use in California, So they thought it would be a neat idea to try ice diving in the winter, I'm sure at that time grass carp were the only fish allowed to spear. They used to give the carp away to the black people or bury them in the garden. Although someone gave us one that had been smoked and it was Delicious,

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------- Ice diving in winter to retrieve a car that went threw the ice under bridge in lake Miinnetonka ----

----------- The ice was thin under the bridge and car driving on the ice went threw. The divers tied cables on the car to pull it out. I was there , it was sometime back in the late 1950s.