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After Magic Point we headed into Long Bay and up onto
the beach for a break. Back out to the Malabar and when gearing up
Jen gets sick and can't do the dive. Wayne and I head off leaving
Jen to rest in the boat. Given the shallow depth we use the left
overs from our first dive, still a good 95 bar for me. We could
not find the wreck, heading west when we should have gone east.
Doubling back we found wreckage, and a few minutes later the huge
flywheel pointing up to the surface. A bit further on we found the
huge engine. It was very surgy but the visibility was excellent.
With air short we headed back, swimming shallow to conserve air. I
was down to less than 20 bar and close to the surface and could feel the
air getting hard to breathe. When there was no more I surfaced.
We were 100m from the boat and there was an outgoing current. The
surface swim back was hard and I had not taken my snorkel so had to swim
on my back all the way to the boat. Very tiring.
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