Rich Keller
Contributor
My niece told me that a commercial diver from my brother in laws side of her family used to sleep underwater. When I told her I used to do the same thing she started to laugh and asked "Is that a thing?" I was doing bridge piling restoration work and when something would go wrong topside it usually did not take too long to fix so I would stay in the water and wait for the problem to be solved. When the water was warm enough I would just curl up between a couple of pilings and take a nap. I only know of one other diver I worked with that did this but there must be more. How many have taken a nap underwater while waiting for something to happen topside?