We had been diveing at beatiful reef for an hour while the scuba people were bubbling somewhere around cause we were on a boat trip off shore.
I felt pretty good about my self, going to -20 and still being able to do things relaxed no hurry, try to find something interesting, I also had my disposable camera with me which seemed to be doing pretty well...even though it has a text that says..-4m max, well I could hear it crack a bit but it seemd to be fine.
ok then we (me, my older brother and couple of friends) were about to get back on boat, but I thought that I want to do just one more, bit deeper dive, so I asked my brother to wach when I go, and so we went bit farther and deeper, I relaxed closed my eyes and tried to be still. I was bit cold though, but not too cold to dive I thought, so I finished my breathing after couple of minutes of slow breathing and packed couple of times, I can't remember how many, not over ten though, and as I entered I still packed the air from my snorkel
(as you enter there is bit of air in your snorkel, so why not..right) so I started my descend thowards the cliff covered by corrals, I thought that it would be about -25 or so.. deep but still with in my reach, as I reached the cliff I checked my guage and it indicated -26m and I was doing just fine. I was suprised so I swam on the edge of the cliff and kept on descending up to -29m and turned around slowly still waching everything around me.
After a few kicks I felt first contraction and I looked up. I couldn't see my brother but just the sunlight and the sparkly furface where the oxygen what I seriously needed by the time I reached -15m. I held my hand in a fist which was a indication to buddy above that I am in very low oxygen and..well still ok, but not all that sure how would it be once surfaced.
I saw my brother diveing thorwards me and surfacing right infront of me looking bit worried.
I was exhausted feet felt like couple of led bars but after a minute or two I was back and feeling great in the wrm waters of the red sea and admireing my new pb.
well thats how I felt..
