The Making Of Sanked ‘Em!

28 02 2011

Sunday, February 6th, 2011 ~

Since we went to see Sanctum last night, we toyed with the idea of doing a parody of it, under the ice. We didn’t have any solid plans, just some loose suggestions, and we went to town…

“What could possibly go wrong, diving under the ice?”

Chris P. had his trusty camera, and was ready to go!

We did the in water portion first, and there were many tears of laughter flowing inside our masks, and extra bubbles coming from our regulators. Steve and Oren headed over to the “habitat,” where Chris caught them doing some deco.

Then came the “falling into the abyss” scene, where Steve and Oren shared a mask until Oren got pushy, and just had to go. I love how Oren looks up at the camera, just as he’s halfway down.  We had way too much fun.

Once we filmed the “deeper” stuff, we headed back to the shallows, where Oren was clawing across, and Steve was sipping the air pockets from the surface of the ice. I am not sure how on earth they did that with  straight faces, but they did it.

Once we surfaced, we got rid of the gear, and were trying to think of ways to film some of the topside stuff. Jen went to her car, to get the glow stick that we had miraculously found inside the plane.

When she came around the corner, coming towards us, I literally fell to the floor, laughing. Jen had thrown her suitcase in the car, just by chance, and came out with it on her back, as her RB. Her scarf acted as her loop. That was freakin’ brilliant!!! I was crying, laughing!! It was perfect! Although my director made me grab the glow stick from a place that looks rather wrong on the video. Lol…

  

Steve, on the hunt for his missing bail out bottles…

Oren, at the entrance.. Poor, poor Oren… (lol)…

Me, after my rock climbing…

Zora, watching over all of our antics, and letting us know that we are out of coffee. I guess we should have had the event catered…

Well, to say that we had fun is an understatement. This was an absolute riot!

The finished project! Enjoy!





Visitors!

6 02 2011

Saturday, February 5th, 2011 ~

Jen, Oren, and Chris P. came up to join in on some Ice Diving Goodness! We headed up to the quarry, where we also met up with Eric. It seemed that our hole had completely frozen over again, so we decided that it was a good time to reshape it, back into the hectagon that we like. We had double chainsaw action, and it was a group effort!

I cleared snow off of the picnic tables, for our doubles…

…and the hole was complete…

Planning our dive…

Jen…

We had a pretty good and fun dive, despite me being a little light, with my thick, heated  undies. I also managed a free flow on my backup reg. After I shut down my left post, we headed in.

On today’s dive, I put the DUI heated system on from the beginning, at 75%. What a nice feeling, to be consistantly warm. I was never chilled once. 🙂

Bottom Time ~ 42 mins.
Max. Depth ~ 44′ (Avg. 26′)
Water Temp. ~ 39F
Visibility ~ Pretty decent

 Chris, taking a picture of me, taking a picture…

From the quarry, we headed down to The Works, which seems to have become our favourite apres-dive place to eat, since Jean Burger burned down. Kevin also met us there. So.. after our meals, it was time to go see Sanctum!

Review tomorrow! 😀