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On the verge of panic, I looked down with my blurred vision. I could barely make out my surroundings – I couldn’t read my depth gauge and didn’t know what depth I was in. I couldn’t tell if I was going up or down.

With my blurred vision I couldn’t make out any sign of Colin below me. In the few seconds that it had taken for me to arrest my descent - and shoot from a semi-controlled state into abject terror, he had disappeared from view beneath me into the darkness. I grimly held onto the anchor rope and fought to deal with my mask flood.

In reality I was completely safe, but my novice’s inexperience was running riot with my common sense. I was in an alien environment, things were going pear shaped – I now perceived I was in trouble and was teetering on the edge of panic.

My first thought was to try and continue the descent and reach Colin who would now be well below me - out of sight but still holding onto the anchor line. I tried to tough it out and continue down blind but I got some more water up my nose and gagged - I couldn’t go on.