dumpsterDiver
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Are you saying you sprint to the surface the second you feel the slightest change in work of breathing? You don't look for problems/solutions first?
If it gets hard to breath, I am pretty much bailing on the dive. What the hell are you gonna fix, at depth, on a recreational, openwater dive? The most important thing is to just get the ascent started. That is NOT a sprint. As described, I would do a few kicks, begin to ride the buoyancy and RELAX!
I had a scuba failure while diving a little over a year ago and captured it on video. I developed a very serious leak and I waited for my buddy to shut down the problem tank--- I didn't know if it was the primary or the pony bottle at the time. I didn't shoot for the surface because I had my young teenage son with me to deal with and there was no reason, since I had a 13 cu-ft tank at 80 feet and knew that I still had enough air to make an easy ascent.