By any measure, diving under the surface of a frozen lake is a particularly hazardous undertaking, especially if you’re scuba diving, where your regulator can freeze and your air tanks will allow enough travel for you to get lost and to stay down long enough for your entry hole to freeze. Protocols are designed to prevent these mishaps, but a simpler, safer approach is tankless free diving, where you stay down only as long as you can hold your breath and you never lose sight of the exit.
This is how Geoff Coombs, 26, captures his extraordinary images. He travels four hours north from his home in Port Credit, Ontario, to Tobermory, on the shore of Lake Huron, which is known around the world for its shallow-water shipwrecks. Wearing a seven-millimeter-thick, open-cell wetsuit, he and his friend Andrew Ryzebol, a free-diving instructor, slip beneath the ice of Little Cove Provincial Park and explore some of the clearest water in Canada.
The first time Coombs and Ryzebol went under the ice was in
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