What started as a calm dive ended up to be a heartpumping one when we hit a strong downcurrent during one of our dive in Sipadan Island.

The downcurrent happened a few minutes into our drift dive. You will hear my dive instructor ringing his bell (01:11) to call my attention. He was signalling (not caught on video) for me to swim upward but I told him I couldn’t (in sign language, of course! ). I was too tired and the current was just too strong.

You’ll see in the video that I was actually close enough to the reef but I was moving too fast (downward) that I couldn’t hold on to a rock or a coral (✌). I also got scared because I might hurt myself if I try to grab or hold on to something. Because I was already struggling and in the verge of panicking underwater, my instructor and the local divemaster came to my rescue.

Everybody managed to hold on to something and just waited for a few seconds for the downcurrent to pass.

#SipadanIsland #ScubaDiving #Panic

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