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You are absolutely right. I could have come straight back up. However, I was on the verge of blacking out, the world was spinning around me and I could barely see. So there was simply no way I could think straight. I had lost all sense of time and couldn't be sure that a direct ascent was safe...

Yes, perhaps finning technique improvement might help. My physical fitness is, by any objective measure, high. I'm middle aged but in v good shape, healthy eating and frequent exercise, low resting heart rate, etc. I suspect the biggest mistake was not breathing deeply enough (I was trying to...

I was recently acting as the divemaster trainee (supervised by an instructor) guiding 3 highly experienced tourist divers at Nusa Penida in Bali. The first dive was something of a nightmare, with none of the tourist divers following proper buddy procedures and one displaying very poor buoyancy...