Boot Camp Jia! 2 (Patreon)

Jia: “So Yuri, it’s simple. Every time you dive, you’ll double your breath hold time. You stay at the ocean floor and wait for my cue. You’ll start at exactly one minute.”

Yuri: “Okay!”

Yuri felt comfortable. Jia could have been way more demanding, but this method sounded reasonable.

The first dive was a breeze. So was the next one.

The third dive was still very doable, maybe just a cough or two at the end of the routine.

Into the fourth dive - Yuri began to suspect if something was off. Toward the end, her lungs began to ache and her diaphragm strained.

But hold, hold …she would become a legend within the day.