Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-30319843-20180219122801/@comment-25997078-20180219142641

LOCATION: The Alaçagosé Trench

This is it. I was now 200 meters below sea level, and the temperature was warming up to 7 degrees. I have exited the twilight zone and now I can distinguish the faraway walls and the tuna fish swimming. I patted my stomach. I haven't eaten in forty years. I didn't dare drink ocean water because of such reasons.

There! I could see it! I could see the sunlight emitting from the ocean surface.

50 more meters before I touch the ocean's surface.

It was getting warmer. The temperature was now 16 degrees (The trench was close to the equator). 25 more meters, I saw the sunlight as bright as ever, something I haven't seen in years.

Impact.

I took my first breath, something I haven't done in 40 years.

I was right beside The Alaçagosé Islands. I knew they connected to the continent.

I ran, skipping along the surface of the water like I had styrofoam shoes.

Spending 40 years at the bottom of a trench can do things to you.