I don't want to die diving. It came across to me as newbie tech wannabe, 5th dive in doubles yesterday, asked to unclip & reclip deco bottle,fine, mask got flooded, ok fine, clear it, tank is dangling, wait it's not clearing and oh now I'm ooa.....everything looks blurry, no air to clear mask...hmmm...signal ooa, no I have a necklaced alternate my hand was on it a couple of times, my brain still said no you are ooa, blurry vision OK someone jam a reg in my mouth now! I could see my buddy in the blur...air...ahhhh... Now this was all controlled, my buddy was right there, the instructor was right there, but I just wanted air NOW! Respect the sport, train properly (my recreational brain still doesn't recognize redundancy is an option now - that is going to be a very hard engrained thing to break free of.) there is nothing heroic about dying while diving. I think it must be a very fast death. I've always been very conservative and respectful of established rules diving.
I watched my MIL die from horrible brain cancer. Fast would be better.
I watched my MIL die from horrible brain cancer. Fast would be better.