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Surprised at his own cool-headedness, he unhooked the fish, which now held absolutely no significance, dropped his spear, then
turned and shoved off, heading into the current. "So this is the last five minutes of my life". He was acutely aware that his life was
over. Sixteen years of fond memories came back to him in a flood. He felt somehow satisfied he had lived a good life, full of adventure and
learning. These thoughts were short-lived though as the hollow cosmic fear of death flooded back in. Ahead of him was only dark, heavy, ocean
water. He needed air and he didn´t have it. He could use the time he had left to swim a limited distance through the water, then he would
still be in water. What now? There were Silver Crevice fish, and there were tunnels and caverns, but finding the two together inside air-tight
areas was next to impossible. The chances of finding an air pocket in five minutes were probably one in a trillion if not impossible, and even if he did
find one, where would he go from there? The thought seemed almost humorous to him somehow, and he actually laughed a little despite the tears in his eyes
as he kicked off the tunnel wall to gain more speed against the current. In the next two minutes, he passed several other openings and three major forks,
but he tried to track the yellow stain where it appeared most prominent. As he approached yet another fork, he saw that the stain appeared to be about
equal in both of them. Something told him to take the one on the right. Without wondering why, he launched himself into it, and continued as fast
as he could go. After only a few seconds, he stopped, stunned at what he saw. The place he was in was huge. A gigantic room, probably fifty
feet across, and at least half again that high. He cast the beam of his light around the room looking for the best way to continue. Then, with his
light shining straight up, he was again stunned at what he saw. His own reflection! About thirty feet up was what appeared to be a water surface!
What else could produce this type of reflection? He shot himself up toward the reflective surface, but when he was no more than three fourths of the way
there, he began frantically trying to stop himself, battling the water with both hands and feet. He noticed a characteristic in the motion of the surface
that told him it was not a water surface at all, but only a sudden change in water temperature. He thought again of his learning in school and remembered
that in order to create a reflection like this, the temperature difference had to be tremendous, which made the water above the reflection hot enough to kill a
person almost instantly. Water this hot could not even exist as a liquid if it was closer to the surface. Only the extreme pressure kept it from
exploding instantly into steam.
He checked his air supply again. "Only two minutes to live", he thought.
He almost wished he had swum into the superheated water. He knew he wouldn´t have felt a thing, and that had to be better than suffocating when
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"as long as I've got any time at all I might as well spend it trying to find a way to
survive." He quickly searched the cavern again with his light, trying to find a passageway which might lead to a place above the superheated water,
thinking of the possibility of trapped vapor, but found none. He swam to the other end of the cavern where his original tunnel continued, bearing the
familiar lime stain on its floor. He swam as fast as he could, more desperately now, looking for some passageway that led upwards. He hated to
look at his air supply again -- forty-two seconds! It already seemed like he was miles from the huge cavern, yet his movement. . . . . . . . .
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