[fatlazyless]

"The atv, with its big tires did not sink and was still floating on the surface of the pond."

That's about what it says in today's Feb 22 Union Leader's detailed report on a 53-year old man who drowned last night in Derry, NH, in 6-8 feet of water when he drove from the partially ice covered pond out onto open water at about 11-pm.

I had previously been told that the tire's flotation was not enough to keep an atv afloat, so this here says they do. Yes or no, do they or don't they....maybe there's only one way to tell for any one machine...... by dunk-testing?

If yes, it sure makes an atv easier to retrieve than a snowmo-ranger-pickup truck, plus the driver can easily wear a pfd under a windbreaker. Wearing a pfd would probably change the whole personality of doing a self-rescue as you try to claw yourself up & out. It would be less stressfull, and less panicked, and more engaged & directed energy.