Scuba equipment ?

[tgreene]

...With no tethers.

...But with no spools or reels, either.

Perhaps the ice can easily be broken through? I mean, if there's no overhead, then it's not really ice diving...

...And there would be no need for tethers, doubles, spools or reels.

Maybe that's it? (Please tell me that's it...)

I sure hope that's it - there's not one of them that's got a reg setup for overhead diving... Not even one long hose. And the only reg set that we can see - presumably the instructor's - has a yoke first stage. One good whack on any overhead, and no mo' breathing gas...

Interestingly, the regulator that he (the "instructor") is diving is an Apeks XTX200... The only battery-operated first stage in the industry. Yeah, talk about making things overly-complicated, with a HUGE failure point...

You can clearly see the tethers in the following pics...

 

[tgreene]

I am old now (50)

Ahhhh, you don't look a day over 63!

 

[SeaJayInSC]

You can clearly see the tethers in the following pics...

Where?

 

[tgreene]

Attached to the right hip on the blue diver in each pic...

In the 1st pic the rope exits at the lower right corner of the image, seemingly under about 2" of water.

In the 2nd pic the rope is clearly attached just above the Octo, crosss his right leg, and exits the image directly below the divers' wrist.

It does not appear that the diver in black has one, so he could well be a Rescue Diver for the quarry that is loose and thus enable to assist as need be.

-Tim