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BEST DIVE - WORST DIVE
Mark Ellyatt
WORST: Deeper diving has its risks and its rewards. I suppose
when I recall my worst dive, I don't have to think for too
long before remembering the episode when I picked up
the worst injuries after ascending feeling quite chuffed
after beating icy, black water full of jelly fish from some
260 metres below the surface. I fancied a crack at the
depth record in 2003 having been 'fairly' deep and 'quite'
long too many times for 10 years before to remember.
I read a couple of stories from extremely deep divers
like Exley and Bennett and thought I'd like to compare
my abilities with their near death, hair-raising accounts.
There I was, laughing to myself at how easy all this was –
clinging with one hand while being whisked along by
the currents on the end of my 300 metre anchor line some
50 miles offshore with a similar amount of complacency
as a lobster in a pan of hot water luxuriating in the
spa-like temperatures...
To read the rest of Mark's frankly horrific worst dive and find out what happened on his no less impressive best dive, you'll need to get your hands on London Diver Magazine. It's free. What are you waiting for?
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