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testmeat photoblog


16 August 2024

you can go anywhere you please

you can go anywhere you please
so i bring a message from the king on this new morning, you can go anywhere you please
one of the very first lessons you learn when you start scuba diving is to never hold your breath underwater. it's all to do with the pressure, and how the volume of air in your lungs increases as you start to ascend. it's not a problem if you're breathing in and out whilst you go up, but if you hold your breath you no longer have space in your lungs for all of this expanding air. the image of exploding lungs had the desired effect, and as a result i'm always constantly breathing in and out when i'm diving.

another important lesson is to always keep an eye on how much air you have left in your tank, and regularly communicate this with your buddy and/or guide when underwater. once it falls below a specified amount you need to start wrapping up the dive ensuring you have enough left for the ascent. in most cases you dive in a small group of people, and as such you have to follow the lead of the person with the lowest air. it doesn't matter if you still have half a tank left, if someone else is running out then everyone has to finish the dive together and make their way to the surface.

now in my experience diving i'm often the one who uses up my air the quickest, which is both frustrating and kinda embarrassing as i know i'm cutting short the dive for everyone else in the group. but it wasn't until i went diving in the andaman islands in india that i realised why this was the case. as i said before i always breath in a regular pattern, a slow inhale immediately followed by a slow exhale, but apparently there's another way. i believe it's called box breathing, essentially you inhale for a few seconds, then hold for a few seconds before exhaling for a few seconds and repeat. it goes against the exploding lungs rule, but i was assured that it's a safe technique as long as you don't hold it for too long, keep your throat open and you're not rapidly ascending at the time. this all means that each breath of air you take lasts so much longer, and after trying it out i finished my next dive with so much left in the tank. it's remarkable that it took me fifteen years of diving and trip to some remote indian islands to finally learned how to breathe.

these mangrove trees were at the bottom of the garden at the place i was staying on havelock island, i went down with my tripod hoping to get some starry shots, but cloud cover was immediately followed by torrential rain so i didn't get a chance. here's another shot taken just a few minutes before the rainclouds arrived
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