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I’m not sure what depth I was on the rope when I first began chest spams, but I could no longer see the boat and the surface was just a faint light, teasing me with precious air.

It took all of my focus to keep from opening my mouth and sucking in water to make my stubborn lungs stop screaming for attention.

As you can see by the title of my post, I did not reach my goal of 15 meters today on my very first freedive. It actually turned out not to be an oxygen issue, I was able to hold my breath for well over a minute under the water. It was a different diving culprit that stopped me, my left ear. I have had trouble with that ear in the past, and this time I was not about to equalize it at anything lower than 11 meters. I would push and push until the pain of the pressure on my eardrum was too much to bear, and I knew that something was going to break.

True, God gave me 2 ears, but I don’t think one was intended as a backup to stupidity, so I would abort every effort with just barely enough oxygen left in my blood to convince my brain that life was still worth living.

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