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Breathing out isn’t the issue. Sure, you’ll rupture your airways if you don’t, but you’ll still get decompression sickness if you do.

So even in the incredibly unlikely scenario that you reach the surface, you’ll have nitrogen bubbles in your bloodstream that’ll quickly kill you.

Look up a dive chart; fifty meters is much too far down, especially if you’ve been there a while.






I don't think decompression sickness is the main concern here. Dive boats would usually anchor somewhere relatively shallow. You're probably making some decision reasonably quickly so you haven't absorbed that much nitrogen yet. If you're >50m deep you have other problems (like depth narcosis).

Decompression sickness can kill you quickly if you get large bubbles in your brain or heart but that's less typical. Many cases of decompression sickness can be treated in a compression chamber within some reasonable amount of time after surfacing. Onset of decompression sickness is also often delayed by as much as 48 hours.




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