Vintage Dive Photos.

[stick500]

might be a dumb question but why did the guys go to all the trouble of ice diving back then if the lakes were a lot clearer than they are now in the summer?

those old dry suits don't look too warm!

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also, I wonder if the DNR regs even mentioned skin-divers back then

apparently it was a roughfish only deal already back then or we would would probably be seeing a few bass and walleyes in the spearfishing pics!

[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.

[seahuntjerry]

Yes Your Dad told me that was him.I do have alot of old photos from another member of the club.

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Travis kept everyone diving in the pool or ice diving during the winter

[stick500]

funny how all the radical changes in diving equipment that have come since the spearfishing shot at Gray's Bay, but the spearguns most of us are using today are basically the same as they were then- even the spearpoints look similar to what we have today

[sonofadiver]

----------Travis and early spear gun-----

----Before dry suet's he used long johns and coveralls to keep warm in cold water.--------

-------Diving Lake Superior 1953. It amazed my dad how the polio did not effect Luther's ability to dive. Luther was totally free when diving--------------------

[stick500]

how did that primitive spear pole/gun in the 1940 work?

[sonofadiver]

I have no idea, although he did get a nice carp!

[seahuntjerry]

The same as rubber arbalete guns work now

[stick500]

that thing next to him and the carp doesn't resemble anything I've ever seen- where's the bands, trigger, and spearpoint that could actually hold onto something??

(I'm talking about the pic that says 1940, not the 1953 shot where it is obvious it's basically the same guns we have today.)

[seahuntjerry]

Oh Sorry it was just a pole with sharp tip on it