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 What his flashlight beam showed next stunned Nico. Dangling between two massive rocks above him was a pair of pale legs wearing black fins. And one of the legs was moving! When Nico reached out to touch it, a hand came down and closed around his left wrist.

Nico knew the young man must be kept from panicking. Gently he passed the mouthpiece of his reserve regulator up over his head, through the surface of the water to where Antonio’s face must be. He heard him take a couple of breaths before handing the air hose back down. Antonio is trying to buddy-breathe with me, Nico realized. How incredible that, after 17 hours in this hole, he is still lucid!

Nico had to show Antonio he could keep the hose. He took the mouthpiece out of his own mouth and, holding this and the reserve, passed them both up. This time Antonio kept one hose and handed back the other. Pulling on Antonio’s arm, Nico coaxed him underwater. Now he saw the young man’s face: pale, boyish features with a stubbly beard and flowing, shoulder-length hair. Antonio shook his head, his eyes wide with terror, and retreated back to the surface.

Nico understood. Antonio wouldn’t submerge unless he could see where he was going. Luckily there was the mask he’d found. He handed it up. Antonio put it on and returned under the surface.

Nico slipped the guide rope into Antonio’s hand and pushed him headfirst into the tunnel. Antonio hadn’t enough strength to swim, so Nico had to keep pushing him from behind, checking at the same time that he was still breathing. The guide rope stayed taut as, outside the tunnel, his deputy picked up the slack.

They made agonizingly slow progress. Linked to the same tanks, they had to move like Siamese twins. Finally, they came to the eel, which surveyed them from its den. Seconds later they were out in the blue-gray light of the open sea.

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“He’s alive! He’s alive!” Nico screamed as they broke the surface. “Get some warm clothes.” The frogmen lifted Antonio’s limp body from the water and radioed for an ambulance. As they waited, the men rubbed and massaged Antonio. “You can’t die now,” Nico told him. “You’ve got to live.”

At the closest hospital, Antonio was treated for exposure, exhaustion and an edema caused by near drowning. Doctors said he would not have survived more than another hour in the cave—hypothermia would have stopped his heart.

 

 

 

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