No amount of eagerness to dive should ever make you skip any pre-dive safety checks. Here's what happened to one diver who learned that lesson the hard way.
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There are many good reasons to have proper buoyancy control. A diver learns one of them the hard way.
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A novice diver does all he can for a buddy who stops breathing under water.
In this tale of two downwellings, the lesson of positive buoyancy becomes tragically clear.
Taking a stranger as a buddy, one diver gets more than she bargains for.