World Is A Simulation

My dive buddy grabbed my gauge and directed my attention to the low numbers, all happening 100ft below while diving Hawaii’s shipwreck… I have 5mins to find the rope to secure and get the alternative from my buddy…

It all happened on a lovely afternoon after my first ever shipwreck dive, which is also my first deep dive over 100ft, totally different experience and color and fish types. I loved the experience so much to a degree of forgetting the danger at all.

Sea turtle is taking the sunbath on the deck of their cruise ship.

On our second deep dive that day, the depth will be a little over 100ft, the procedure is the same, rope guide down to a 80ft location, then divers swam to the shipwreck.

The rope linked the boat above and beneath the water

I was even given a reminder —- a diver in an earlier group have to give up the dive due to leakage in the equipment minutes descending, but at that time, I was over confident and easily ignored the reminder.

My equipment during the dive.

Everything went well and I even went inside the shipwreck with the guidance of my buddy – a really experienced dive master.

Until near middle of the dive, my buddy checked my gauge of air and found I have only 5- 6 minutes of air or less, if there is leakage, then the air could be out in seconds! But there is leakage, otherwise the air could not run out so quickly. Every second counts! And it is 100ft beneath the water, it is fatal even if I ascend quickly to surface due to Decompression sickness!

Then we swam to the rope, but due to the current was strong, it was not safe to switch my regulator (where I got air from the tank) to my buddy’s. so during that swim, everything must be smooth or I could not write this article. I took out my regulator and switched to my buddy’s alternate regulator after reaching the rope. I have practiced this in swimming pool, in a water pond but never under 100ft in the sea! When I took out my regulator, I was just myself in the sea without anything supporting me! luckily the duration was just seconds, but that feels like a long time. It is pure delight of reborning when I can breath again with my buddy’s alternate regulator. I was saved!!!

It is great to be alive and back on the boat!