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Smyth began following Pattinson down, aware they were well past their limits, and into territory where the oxygen in their tanks turned toxic and could cause seizures, and they would start to be “narced” – where the nitrogen they were breathing caused disorienting narcosis.
By the time he hit 64m, Smyth was still 5-10m above Pattinson, and made the desperately difficult decision to stop, and swim for the surface.
Yeah that is pretty much the whole story. Diving to 50 m on a line is not that big of a deal, doing it with a drunk diver is just amazingly stupid. Being drunk is not the footnote in this story.At twice the legal limit, he was narced out of his mind before getting in the water.
LOL, that's not the issue here! They shouldn't have been riding mopeds together.165 feet on air, with no planned deco. . . Sorry for the loss, but you can't fix stupid