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Just seconds before she was about to surface from the depths of the ocean, Lim Anqi felt darkness closing in on her as her body reacted to hypoxia, a condition brought about by a lack of oxygen.
But instead of panic, the experience actually left her feeling at peace.
“It was only two or three seconds, but in my memory, it was a much longer time”, maybe at least 10 to 20 seconds, said Anqi of the moment she lost consciousness.
This near-death incident occurred while the Singaporean freediver was preparing for the world championships last year in Honduras, practising for her 51-metre dive (about the height of a 15-storey building).
Freediving is a sport where divers swim vertically into the ocean and up again on a single breath, and the blackout experience was her first in almost five years of practising the sport.
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