Richard Cashin, who has been diving for 10 years. Since then, divers have gone underwater to retrieve countless weapons, pieces of evidence and bodies. Although the divers hope to use their skills to rescue people who fall through the ice, they are mainly a recovery team, said state trooper Blake Gilmore, who heads the state's western dive team. They can put their minds at ease.
More divers plan to practice today.
Ice diving can be claustrophobic because divers have to find the hole in order to come back up, divers said.