Getting to the Bottom of It All

Getting to the Bottom of It All

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Any kind of underwater diving involves process for that very reason. There’s the early-morning wake-up, the weather check, the gear check (masks, fins, regulators … check). And then there’s the dive site approach – whether you’re walking in from the shore or taking a boat to some far forgotten reef.

Diving Lake Untersee is just like that – except in Antarctica we get to our dive site by snowmobile. And Untersee ratchets up the workload because it’s remote, technical and cold.

To even get into the lake is a feat of accomplishment and a trick of clever engineering. Just the thought of trying to chip a dive hole through 10-foot thick lake ice could give you tendinitis long before you get your feet wet.