[kookie_guy]

I had kind of a 'what if' moment on my 4th dive in 3 days, when I was doing my final certification in open water. The first 3 dives were all the test dives, and all went very well. Then we did one final dive as certified divers, nothing big, about 50' down. Well, during the first 3 dives I developed an inner ear infection, and on the 4th dive everything just started spinning out of control. Basically the instructors described that they just saw me spiraling out of control as I was ascending. The only thing on my mind at the time was to keep breathing, and to take shallower breaths because I knew I was ascending way faster than I should have. Scared the crap out of me, but I'm still diving.