>First of all - formally, being OW divers, neither of you had any business at 72ft. There is no police and depth is just a guideline, but you have too few dives to play around with the depth.

I'm seriously shocked I had to come to the bottom comment to find this. It's 2 am here so I was trying to figure out if I was mixing something up in the conversion between meters and feet. How this was accepted is beyond me.

u/blackjack1223 differences in depth are serious, and to be going to 72 feet with only a couple dives under your belt is a big deal. God forbid one of you was more prone to decompression sickness than the average person, you would have no idea what you were feeling or what to do if you got up there with no one else around. Please don't do this again.

There was a lot that went wrong here, these are often the situations where people find "the dominoes falling" and when bad things happen. I'm grateful nothing happened and everyone was safe. Next time make sure to stand your ground on what you are comfortable with. Diving is not a place you should ever be peer pressured into things you're not comfortable with. At the end of the day, it's your life on the line.