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Diving is one of those activities where things can get really hairy pretty quickly, and it is only your training and experience that you have to rely on, and hopefully a buddy. Heck, OW is basically just a course on what to do when the S hits the fan. Even though your plan is just to swim thorugh a wreck, and 9 times out of 10 nothing will happen, it is the 10th time that gets you in trouble, or killed.
I was swimming through a wreck and the guy in front of me hit the top of his tank on the ceiling of the wreck. He overcompensated and then hit the floor, cut his hand on something, freaked out, and began spreading a tremendous amount of silt everywhere. We only had about 5 feet to go to get to the opening, but we couldn't see anything. Luckily my buddy behind me happened to have his light out and we could just make out the opening (although the light almost made it worse). The guy in front of us actually exited after us, but we didn't even see him until we all exited the wreck. At the time it didn't seem like a big deal, but in retrospect things could have taken a real turn for the worse.
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