A friend spearfishing almost died yesterday due to shallow water black out. Luckily his buddy saw him and saved his life. He cau

On Sunday October 12, I blacked out while freedive spearfishing. I was coming up from a 71ft dive during which I had shot a mangrove snapper. My dive time was 1:12. I had done a surface interval of 4 minutes before this dive. We had been diving that depth (~65’) most of the day chasing those mangrove snapper. Everything about the dive felt comfortable to me. I didn’t feel any more fatigued than I normally do when coming up from that depth after shooting a fish. As I hit the surface, the last thing I remembe