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 ...

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 ...

A Navy diver assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2s prepares to enter the water during ice dive training at Camp Ripley in Little Falls, Minn., on Feb. 18, 2021. US Navy Photo Sailors ...

Navy divers assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 prepare to enter the water during ice dive training at Camp Ripley in Little Falls, Minn., Feb. 18. (Chief Mass Communication Specialist Jeff ...

Dozens of divers from more than 14 states gathered at Square Lake in Stillwater Township to jump in for a good cause. Saturday’s North American Ice Diving Festival was a training opportunity for ...

A specialized training program in northern Finland is preparing scientists to dive beneath frozen Arctic and Antarctic waters ...