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top psychotherapists, waiting to uncover more about what drives
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me in my chosen sport and my personal life. Her notes were
scribbled on the questionnaire I had spent almost an entire night
answering, and I was lled with dread at the impending verdict.
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eleventh of the size they were when I took my nal breath in.
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If I am not relaxed, compression cannot take place, and the soft
tissues of the lungs are what will have to give, causing an injury
we call a lung squeeze. This means under-pressure in the lungs
draws uids from the capillaries into the air spaces, allowing
them to compress. A lung squeeze can present as mildly as a
tickly cough or minuscule spots of blood within the saliva, to
more severe blobs of blood the size of 20 pence or even 50 pence
coins being coughed up, once or many times. All divers know to
take at least several days full rest after a very mild squeeze, much
more for severe injuries.
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sidewalk with each spit wondering what the hell was wrong
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with me. I knew the external problem that was aecting my
dives, I just didnt know how to correct it.
Nicks goal was to hold all US national records by the end of this
year. Vertical Blue in the Bahamas, where he made last weeks
tragic dive, was the nal event of 2013, and Nick was facing his
last chance to full his goal with his CNF dive to 72 metres.
We will never know his thoughts as he went into his nal dive.
Seventy-two metres was not a challenging depth for Nick he
holds the US Record in Constant Weight (diving with a monon)
at 100 metres. However, in this dive the surface sonar and
bottom camera showed that he hesitated and turned at around 63
metres and again at 68 metres, before deciding to continue his
journey down, in a slow horizontal position, to 72 metres. Nick
sensed that he should stop at 63 metres; he listened for a
moment, but decided not to heed the warning. This doubt, the
tension it caused in his body, this decision cost him his life.
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new national record. He had returned from dives on many other
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occasions with a lung squeeze and had continued to dive deep.
Why should this dive be any dierent?
Maybe the light, generosity, passion and joy that Nick expressed
and shared with all of his fellow freedivers will continue to live on
in us all through a heightened, more healthy awareness and
respect for our own wellbeing, and a realisation that the records,
as nice as they are, are not the ultimate reason we freedive.
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church on Long Island, Bahamas, where he helped rebuild the
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roof in exchange for accommodation to pay the way for his diving
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