Sunday, February 2, 2014 
<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio Never mind that the droplets on his beard froze almost instantly as his face popped through a rectangular opening in the ice at Circleville Twin Quarries.</p><p>Mark Thomas, an avid scuba diver, didn't seem to notice the ice chunks clinking against his oxygen tank or the 30-degree temperature, for that matter.</p><p>He was too busy snapping photographs of the wintry scene around him and recalling a sight he had just witnessed underwater.</p><p>"When the sun came out man, was it sweet," said Thomas, 54.</p><p><a href="http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/c1ef9df357844ceebccc5b428448be0d/OH--Quarry-Photographer">Keep reading...</a></p>
