Last day of Comp, last day on the island

Well its been a very eventfull day, Kerian made his last dive of the comp today, which turned out to be a personal best, making it to 71m - he was over the moon and so was I - it was great to see him work so hard and get such a great result.

William turned on his magic again today with a world record swim of 108m FIM - came up pretty clean, but very very happy.

Today I got put to the test, one of the divers blacked out underwater - which on any given day isnt that much of a deal as far as treatment, today however one of my worst nightmares came true, with the diver suffering a Pulmonary Odema and going into respiratory arrest. I made the call to take him ashore after about 10 seconds of him surfacing as he was not responsive to the normal "tap, talk and blow" which we do for blackouts to bring the diver around, and he was foaming from the mouth, clearly there was fluid being aspirated from his lungs - then the blood started to stain the white foam coming from his mouth - this is when I realised that we could be in trouble if we did not act quickly - very luckily the next competitor who was warming up on the platform, was a pulmonary specialist, so I called for his assistance, effectively halting his dive as well, but it was assistance that was greatly needed as the safety divers for this dive had never witnessed this type of incident before, and neither had I. The good part of the story is that after some time we brought him back around, and he was sent to the local medical clinic for further monitoring and treatment. He has made a full recovery which is fantastic.

To say goodbye to the hole, I got Kerian to hold a tag down the line, and I dove to get it, today I didn't go as far as I had been, my ears just wouldn't let me go that far but 5.9m with a tag felt pretty good, especially when I had people in the water like Kerian, Ryuzo, Tomoko and Natalia yahooing at the water for me, along with Nick and Fran on the platform.

So tomorrow we jump on the big plane and make the long pilgrimage back to NZ - back to the kids, and like the song says...back to reality, its been an amazing experience being here and being with these amazing people over the past two weeks.

See you all soon - and boys, keep your room clean and take care of nana!