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The Deepest Dives
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• 1 On December 21, 2003 in Phuket, Thailand, a new world
record was made: a British dive instructor, Mark Ellyatt, dove
313 meters, beating the previous deep-water dive record of
308 meters set in 2001.
• 12 If divers come up too soon, they acquire a condition known
as “the bends” otherwise known as decompression sickness,
which is the phenomenon of nitrogen being expelled at a fast
rate from the body.
• 15 The biggest danger of decompression sickness is that it may
cause paralysis and take away a diver’s ability to swim, which
means that the diver could easily drown.