Scuba Diving Changes Life of Woman With Terminal Illness   The Dodo - video Dailymotion

LilaTv Official

Watch Scuba Diving Changes Life of Woman With Terminal Illness   The Dodo - LilaTv Official on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00 As soon as the doctors would give me the bad news, my first question every time was,

00:04 "Will I still be able to dive? How soon can I get back in the water?"

00:08 I've done about 750+ dives at this stage.

00:14 For me, a bad minute underwater beats a good year on land.

00:19 A lot of people say, "Well, it's another world down there,"

00:24 but really it's our world from a different angle,

00:27 and we have a greater connection with it than we realise.

00:30 Sometimes it would be 10 months or 7 months out of the water,

00:39 but when I was finally told that they couldn't cure me after all the surgeries,

00:43 I would go away on dive trips.

00:45 So I'd go and cross manta rays off my bucket list,

00:49 or I'd cross diving with great white sharks off my bucket list,

00:52 and then I'd come back to my next radiotherapy sessions and tell all the medical staff,

00:56 the adventure that I'd been on.

00:58 When I'm down there, I can't have a single thought about this other world up here.

01:07 For me, the ocean has been really therapeutic as well,

01:10 and I spend every possible minute under there.

01:13 I didn't grow up around water,

01:17 and I came to diving a lot later in life than I would have liked to retrospect.

01:23 [Music]

01:30 One year, I saw a million crabs.

01:32 They basically join these little moving on-the-mark groups.

01:37 These massive crabs, with their safety in numbers,

01:41 start to molt their old shells that they've outgrown.

01:44 This octopus just stared me down,

01:53 and cannonballed me.

01:55 It knew what it was doing,

01:56 and I raised up above it,

01:59 so that it could go straight through where I was,

02:02 and go off on its own.

02:04 That was its very clear message to me,

02:06 that it had been ready for its close-up,

02:09 but show was over, see you later.

02:11 Project Banjo came about because,

02:20 for many years, I had seen these beautiful fiddler rays

02:25 that had been caught, but unwanted by fishermen on the pier.

02:29 They would kill them, and throw them back in like rubbish.

02:32 And it got to the point where I realized,

02:35 I've seen this too many times, if I don't do it, it will.

02:38 I honestly think that dealing with a serious,

02:49 chronic, and in my case, terminal condition,

02:53 is a lot of how you process it mentally.

02:56 For me, it was all just about,

02:58 "Okay, when I'm not in hospital, I'm in the water,

03:01 or I'm dreaming about being in the water."

03:04 (upbeat music)

03:07 (upbeat music)

03:12 (upbeat music)

Scuba Diving Changes Life of Woman With Terminal Illness The Dodo

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended