Entertainment
Scuba-Diving Fishermen Filmed ‘Walking’ on Ice Under Water — But How?
- Posted on January 3, 2012 at 10:10pm by
Liz Klimas
- Print »
- Email »
Its about that time of year where in wintry climates ice fishermen begin drilling holes in ice and setting up their huts above frozen lakes. The opposite is true for these underwater ice fishermen donning scuba gear in this mind-boggling video where they appear to be walking on ice underwater and attempting to fish from below.
Watch the film by Juuso Mettälä at lake Saarijärvi in Vaala, Finland:
Have you guessed how this worked? The scuba divers were actually filmed upside down walking on the surface ice underwater.
Many readers on Reddit were confused well into the film until the direction of the air bubbles started giving the secret away.
Popular Stories
Paper Details Obama Admin’s Alleged Secret Note Sent to Iran: If Israel Attacks, We Won’t Get Involved 584 Comments
‘Made Up Religion’: TV Historian Enrages Muslims, Receives Threats After Producing UK Documentary Questioning Islam’s Beginnings 413 Comments
This Is the Creationists‘ Response to Scientist Bill Nye’s Viral Pro-Evolution Video Claiming They Harm Children 411 Comments
Roseanne Barr: Most Billionaires ‘Violent Pedophiles’ & ‘Heartless’ Cocaine Addicts 374 Comments
President Obama Issues Major ‘Green Energy’ Executive Order 368 Comments
Faith
- This Is the Creationists‘ Response to Scientist Bill Nye’s Viral Pro-Evolution Video Claiming They Harm Children 411 Comments
Pakistani Muslim Cleric Accused of Framing Disabled Christian Girl in Koran-Burning Case Read More- ‘Made Up Religion’: TV Historian Enrages Muslims, Receives Threats After Producing UK Documentary Questioning Islam’s Beginnings 413 Comments
Meet the Controversial German Imam Accused of Brutally Beating His Wife & Pushing Sharia Law Read More
‘Self-Proclaimed Messiah’ & Unification Church Leader the Rev. Sun Myung Moon Has Died — Here’s His Life Story Read More
Business
- President Obama Issues Major ‘Green Energy’ Executive Order 368 Comments
- Germany’s Upcoming Court Ruling Will be Huge for the EU Read More
Ford Looks to Beat Toyota for Best-Selling Car in 2012 With This Model 151 Comments
Bernanke & QE3: Here’s What You Need to Know Read More- ‘Extortion’: Why Did the Labor Department ‘Drop the Hammer’ on Oregon Farmers? 302 Comments
Technology
- This Is the Creationists‘ Response to Scientist Bill Nye’s Viral Pro-Evolution Video Claiming They Harm Children 411 Comments
‘TaserDrone’: Hackers Weaponize Quadcopter With Actual ‘Shocking’ Technology Read More
Ever Heard of the Wild ‘Burning Man’ Festival in the Middle of the Nev. Desert? Here’s Your Primer Read More
Stanford Develops Technology ‘Better Than Steroids’ for Athlete Recovery Read More
Have You Pretended to Know What ‘the Cloud’ Is? You’re Not Alone Read More
Submitting your tip... please wait!
Comments (48)
KKC003
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 4:55pmsomething nice to view to break up the monotony! thanks.
Report Post »Scuba is fun but i prefer the beach and warm water. But this sure was an effort to do in the cold- they are tough cookies- regardless of the gear, its still cold.
Nonie
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 4:47pmCool – no pun intended. But how did they keep the buckets up? and what’s with the wheel barrel?
Report Post »KKC003
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 4:53pmwatch the bubbles, they are walking on the underside of the ice so the buckets will go to the surface.I am sure the wheel barrel is because they want to mess with you. :)
Report Post »Protoham
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:51pm@KK
Thanks for the explanation. Being a SCUBA diver I was having a hard time understand what was going on. I thinking it was a thermal issue. Now it makes sense, still pretty cool.
Report Post »whatdaah
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 12:11amThe buckets and wheel Barrel were filled with air, that is how they floated. You could see when he emptied the air from the wheel barrel that it sunk.
Report Post »1391604
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 3:13pmthis is cool would have enjoy this but Global warning would have being there, before I’ve got there..
Report Post »PureDrumFury
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 2:40pmLove that.
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 1:35pmThey are shot upside down. Just a little camera trick. : )
Report Post »photobymike
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 1:22pmI have been ice diving … and its scary and cold…. where is the safety line… when they want to come out …where is the hole? Black dark lonely and cold…. i liked diving in the Florida Keys better
Report Post »Protoham
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:53pmI have never been Ice diving, but agree on the warm Keys.
Report Post »HotFixIt
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 1:21pmEver been diving in really COLD water??? It’s miserable!!! I really admire them for this film and enjoyed watching it. It looks like they had a lot of fun but I am sure it was a lot of work too. I really enjoyed this film…. it made me miss diving. I have not been in several years.
Report Post »liberty_for_all
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 11:42amthe falling bubbles add to the visual stunningness of the film. It’s cool
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:06amall of the critiques aside, neat film. too cold for me …
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:38amFun to watch. surreal looking. Apparently my mind can handle a boggling quite well.
Report Post »wuggly ump
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:56amAs a diver I had it just from the description before watching. I would like to see these guys do some more with a closed rebreather system. Without the bubbles this would have looked super. I am impressed with the camera work. Getting enough light for photography underwater is tough enough never mind filming under ice.
Report Post »Texas Chris
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:48amYes, bubbles gave it away.
SEALs would ahve done it better!
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:05amIt was fun to watch…adults enjoying being kids again and using their imaginations. The bubble directions were a dead-give-away but it was creative. Remember putting blankets over the clothesline to make a fort and use the wooden-clothes-pins to close the door to the magic-fort. We use to put on plays.comedy and mystery and put doll-clothes on our cats and have a circus. Just simple-fun.
Report Post »RRFlyer
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 10:15amNever dove in my life and I figured it out from the descriptions too.
A few years ago sky divers did something similar, walking across the sky.
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:45amCool freakin video!
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:43amI have to admit, it was a really nice art film, but I don’t see how anyone could have been fooled beyond the first exhaled breath. I mean, for cryin’ out loud. Where was the light coming from? Light does not naturally come from BELOW when you are scuba diving. What I wanna know is… where did the wheelbarrow and “balloon” go TO? Did they fish them back out?
Report Post »randydutton
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 1:55pmNot entirely correct. Light comes from below when you’re in a grotto where the access is only from underwater. There’s a great one near Amalfi Italy where the daylight comes through three tunnels. Splash the water inside and it looks like a million diamonds.
Report Post »usmc1063
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:22amHave to admit it was pretty cool, and alot of thought went into this but I caught on when I saw the air bubbles.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:19amBloggle; (1) To blog furiously about the wrong subject.
Report Post »(2) To bait the commenters into a mind juggle with a pop gun exchange of pertinence.
(3) A concerted effort to bring back the caffenated coffee to the blaze lounge.
(4) They do it so later they can remove it to make me look stupid for mentioning it. Just watch…
patricius
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 7:05amLOL@”Mind-Blogging” Good Lord, my mind has just been blogged!
Very cool video.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:06am.
Good Lord, my mind has just been blogged!
You better run outside and get some fresh air LOL………
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 6:48am.
Report Post »Always wondered what they did on a slow day in Finland, now I know………….
thegoldman
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 6:29amVery cleaver !
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 3:38amIt’s a cool video, but it’s not really mind boggling. You’d have to be pretty stupid to not figure out how they did it without even having to see the video.
Report Post »Wool-Free Vision
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 2:52amSorry, I would have commented on this story sooner but I was busy MIND-BLOGGING about this video of men ice fishing under the ice video. Cute video.
Report Post »Wool-Free Vision
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 3:15amAdmit it: Finding the “Mind-Blogging“ typo was AT LEAST as challenging as answering the ”But How?” in the non-titlebar headline.
Report Post »mauijonny
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 2:17amTruly “mind bloggling…” Sheesh.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 2:32amUpside down.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 1:47amAs a scuba diver it was not too hard to figure out. Pretty interesting though. One of them has the same regulator that I do or at least it looks the same. Also pretty good balance for walking upside down. LOL
Report Post »CaffeineJunkie
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 8:11amAnd of course their air bubbles are going down instead of up?
Report Post »Mr.Fitnah
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 1:45amMany readers on Reddit were confused well into the film until the direction of the air bubbles started giving the secret away.
Im guessing reddit is a stoner site ?
Report Post »LovinUSA
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 1:10amNow tell us the secret of how skindivers work with oil pipes under water???????????? Makes ya wonder don’t it?
Report Post »CanteenBoy
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 1:36amAbout what? Please enlighten us.
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 9:43amSkin divers? It’s called scuba diving please.
Report Post »diablosho
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 12:53amHonestly…I don’t think I would have noticed…
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 12:30am“Have you guessed how this worked? The scuba divers were actually filmed upside down walking on the surface ice underwater.”
Wow, to think that some people out there actually might not have come to this conclusion.
“CAN YOU GUESS?!”
Really? How dumb do you think we are?
Report Post »chalkdust
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 12:46amDon’t be overly sensitive now, Doc.
Report Post »Gatekeeper
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 1:15amThe Blaze is such a joke so very often. It’s good for fun stories. It’s good for Beck so he can use it on his radio show. He controls the news essentially, with the Blaze. I‘m pretty sure it’s just a bunch of people scanning the internet for stories that help beck out. To be fair though, some stuff on it is really breaking news and important stuff that is ignored elsewhere.
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 1:40amIt’s just that this is something I would expect my 1st grade nephew to be able to figure out. But the author seems to expect us to be all confused. If someone didn’t immediately know they were upside down within 1 second of glancing at the first picture, then they need to walk away from The Blaze immediately and pick up an elementary school textbook.
Report Post »