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Jia: “So Yuri, it’s simple. Every time you dive, you’ll double your breath hold time. You stay at the ocean floor and wait for my cue. You’ll start at exactly one minute.”
Yuri: “Okay!”
Yuri felt comfortable. Jia could have been way more demanding, but this method sounded reasonable.
The first dive was a breeze. So was the next one.
The third dive was still very doable, maybe just a cough or two at the end of the routine.
Into the fourth dive - Yuri began to suspect if something was off. Toward the end, her lungs began to ache and her diaphragm strained.
But hold, hold …she would become a legend within the day.