My good friend and fellow dive team member here at work... His face is so interesting and full of character.

I respect him for his diving experience and insight. As a team we work well together, and while diving we always seem to know what the other person is thinking.

That being said, I was with him the day he got 'bent' and the thought of possibly losing him as a team member or worse losing him to decompression sickness was heavy on my heart.

We had the same dive profile, the same bottom time, the same safety stop. All these questions were in my head rolling round. "Why am I not feeling any symptoms??"

After deeper discussion/investigation/consideration, it was attributed to a bubble no bigger than a magic marker nib that was lodged in his back due to his weight belt being too tight.

After he was lifted to a deco chamber, we had to continue with the salvage task and everyone was SPOOKED. Definitely one of the most stressful days of my life and not one that I want to re-live EVER.

It was hard to concentrate on the job and not think of him suffering or what the next 48 hours held for him in the deco chamber.

Thanks Russ for being a mentor and friend.

We finally got our gear! It has been 2 years of hard work, perserverance, and dreaming.

Wayne and I believed that our art and experience would help in giving our 2 man show credibility - and with each project one step closer to fullfilling our vision.