Dive Odyssey (Part Two)

Coral Sea memories,continued. Organized by topic.
Breathing.
Always one of those things we divers have to take seriously.
It has to be admitted, right off, that my air consumption sort of sucks. I use up a tank of air quicker than I should— not crucially, horribly, but quickly enough so that it bothers me.
It’s hard to say why, except that it started on my previous dive trip, to Pelau. At the time I was suffering from an undiagnosed case of acid reflux, so I’d figured my pulmonary efficiency was...