Might as well dive deeper, and save yourself the misery
Nobody survIves in rough sea.
record breaking apnea divers
Pearl divers in Doha when that was still a thing could hold their breath for ages. I doubt it did their brains much good.
diving deeper than he knows he would have enough air to return from. I think about that several times a year at least, and always wonder whether that's actually possible.
Once you go far enough down whether dead or alive, you can't go up and you can't go down, due to the weight of water. Davy Jones locker.
On my first voyage the start in the Gulf of Mexico was delayed because a sailor had drowned. It was due to be his final voyage after 17 years. His brother had drowned from the same ship several years earlier. Dangerous places to be.
Going out there in a little taxi boat in very rough sea and being winched up to the main deck in that little cage in the picture in high winds, swinging at 45 degree angles, was a brutal way to start.

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