If you want to see a fascinating video on ice safety check this out. This researcher actually purposely goes through the ice to show you what happens and the best way to get out. He even lets himself get hypothermia with of course EMS nearby. Fascinating and scary!

http://www.exn.ca/video/?Video=exn20020325-icewater.asx

If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.