[Marwan]

This reminds me of my spearfishing buddy..i rarley train for freediving, more of a spearfisherman myself..so anyway we were in sharm the 2 of us and we cannot fish there so we were training on freediving with Ashod our friend and Egyptian champ. My buddy's PB at the time was 30m and mine was 20m...ashod was training to 40-45 easy...but his PB was 70m so 40 is easy for him. anyway my buddy decided to take it up a notch and went to 40m (he didnt tell us he was about to do this)..so we felt he was taking longer than usual to surface..i went down to about 10m to meet him..few seconds later , he was rushing past me to the surface, away from the rope, moving hands and legs finning franticly...
i went after him and as he hit the surface he blacked out..mind you this was the first time for me to see a blackout, his eyes were rolled back and was breathing/panting heavily, and then the breathing stopped! i sort of knew what to do from my rescue training in scuba..took off the mask, blew on his face and he came to..ashod also heped me and kept me confident that we are doing the right thing and that he will be alright...
so take care and dont push your limits man...
until this day, the image of his eyes rolled back especially the moment his breathing stopped and the feeling i had for the seconds he was out is one i will never forget, a constant reminder to keep within limits and ALWAYS have someone watching you..many thoughts raced through my head during those seconds, what will i tell his parents, or his fiance sitting on th beach and not aware of what just happened..today i think what would have happened if we werent there..scary stuff..
take care my friend..its not worth it at the end..better to be safe and dive within your comfort zone and progress slowly with knowledge and experience..
dive safe