One by one, firefighters donned their dry suits and diving equipment and slipped below the ice of Big Sandy Lake on Jan. 11 to practice rescuing a victim during ice rescue training for the Fort McCoy ...

One after another, about a dozen firefighters with the Directorate of Emergency Services Fire Department took their turn Feb. 6 getting in a suit, strapping on an air tank and full-face mask, and ...

LITTLE FALLS, Minn. - Diving is a challenging skill in and of itself, but stakes are even higher when diving in ice water. That’s the training members of the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy are undergoing ...

Professional diver Andrew Ryzebol tells PEOPLE exclusively of his risky underwater explorations 200 feet beneath uncharted ice with nothing but a mask and fins Andrew Ryzebol is a professional ice ...

GIBSONBURG — Every year, hundreds of SCUBA divers visit White Star Quarry for its pristine water and sunken attractions, but last weekend, they came for a third reason: to dive under the ice. For the ...

Chief Hospital Corpsman Kristopher Mandaro, assigned to Underwater Construction Team One, surfaces from a waterhole during a torpedo exercise in the Arctic Circle. (MC1 Daniel Hinton/Navy) U.S.

The Coast Guard's Cold Water Ice Diving (CWID) joint-service course will now occur in the Arctic environment of Camp Ripley, Minnesota. "Because if you can operate in Minnesota in the dead of winter — ...

Thursday's relatively balmy weather belied the extreme conditions one might expect during firefighter ice diving training. Heavy Rescue crews, for example, were able to break through the ice in places ...