Free diving to the bottom of Tim's Ford

[tyler ware]

OK after reading all these post about Tim's and depth of the lake, it got me thinking about what we consider deep water around here. then it got me thinking about my scuba diving last year in Jamaica. No I did not dive in Tim's. We had been at around 95-100ft deep and were on our way to the surface, which is not an immediate assend for all of you non-divers. ARound 65 ft I look up and see a guy swimming around up there with a snorkle, thought it might have been one of the guides from the boat, then all of a sudden I see this guy start to dive. Now remember all he has is a snorkle and fins. Around 50 ft down I really cannot believe my eyes, then he passes me at 65 ft, and continues on down to the bottom at 100 ft. He swims over to a fish trap to inspect if it is worth pulling to the surface, and then turns around and swims back to the top. That was 100ft deep and back up on a single breath, wow. Later the guide told me he found a spear from a spear gun about 110ft stuck in the coral. Starts trying to pull it out, when a guy taps him on the shoulder and points at himself like its his spear, pulls it out of the coral and heads back to the surface, no tank. Just thought I would share how amazing our bodies really are with some training, these guys continually fill their lungs, then keep taking little gasp to stretch their lungs so they can learn to dive 100ft on a single breath of air. Now thats hardcore fishing there, or even shooting your spear gun at a cuda. If you do not kill the baracuda it will turn and come and bite you while your holding your breath 50ft down. I think I will stick with the 79 Monarch Mcfast.