Don Shirley
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And the command is stay as long as you are programmed to stay and then leave.
Because what we don't want is multiple injuries.
We don't want someone to sacrifice themselves unnecessarily for somebody else.
I come up, I get to that one 50 meter, no bubbles below, light still not moving.
I'm on my own there.
And what I should do is actually pick up another cylinder.
I've really only got one and a half cylinders if something went wrong.
But now I don't take the cylinder.
I leave the cylinder for Dave.
If Dave comes back, he's going to need the gas.
So I leave the cylinder there and I carry on out.
I write on the slate and say, Dave's not coming back.
So I give that slate to him and I say, don't go down, go up.
I pick the cylinder up and clip it off onto me.
And as I do that, I start to pass out.
It's like I'm not there.
I've just mentally drifted away.
It's like I'm fainting, like I'm going to sleep.
I'm in a dream world.
I don't even know where I am.