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Ok.............I just had a near death experience that lasted all night and part of this morning. So I thought I should write about it. Anyhow, not that anyone really cares but I went spearfishing and found out in more than one way that I am not as in control in the ocean as I thought. After about an hour of fishing, and not paying attention to the time, the tide began going out on the reef I was fishing which it does with tremendous force and currents, being as the reef drops off into the beginning of the Marianas Trench about 300 yds. away, and I was sucked through a medium size tunnel in the reef into the open sea. This was bad, what was worse was no later than 5 mins, after this happened I began to see the school of hammerheads that were extremely interested in my newly sustained wounds and the fish I had already collected, needless to say I ditched the fish and tucked myself in a cave until I had about five minutes of air left, I then had to surface and spent the rest of last night more scared than I had ever been because I couldn't turn my light on to see because it attracts unwanted things and I couldn't be sure I hadn't already attracted them anyway. I believe uncertainty is the root of all fear, and there was not a damn thing I could be certain of. Was I being hunted? Was I being carried out to sea or was I in a cross current? Was I over the trench? If so was I already in the elliptical current that inevitably would take me to the bottom? But moral of the story is, I did make it to shore about nine o'clock this morning about 14 miles from where I entered. It was a truly humbling experience and I am actually grateful for whatever forces are out there for giving me the lesson in humility.