Paul DMs Iryna about a freediving video. What's under the water shouldn't exist
Instagram DM — Monday, 10:14 PM
Paul: Saw your video. You hold your breath for four minutes twelve seconds — no tank, no movement. That's not human.
Iryna: Been out of signal all day. You messaged at ten. Just got back up.
Paul: Up from where?
Iryna: Dark Cove. North Sea. If you want to dive with me this Saturday, I'll take you. Bring a thick wetsuit — November water bites.
Paul: I'm a marine biologist. I have the gear. Saturday, I'll be there.
Tuesday — Wednesday
Paul: Spent two hours going through your profile this morning. The night dive video from August. The current pushes you and you don't move.
Paul: How do you hold still in a current like that?
Iryna: the water doesn't push me
Iryna: I push the water
Wednesday, 2:14 AM
Paul: Couldn't sleep. Went through your last eighty posts. In two years, you're not out of the water in a single photo.
Iryna: No one's around to take pictures of me on land.
Paul: Do you live alone at the cove?
Iryna: I live in the water, Paul
Iryna: the cove is just what's above
Paul: Found you in a 2019 article. A biologist from Kiel University said she saw a freediver surface without a tank at forty meters in the Flensburg Fjord. The physical description matches you.
Iryna: go to sleep, biologist
Paul: Not going to be able to.
Saturday, 9:08 AM — heading to Dark Cove
Paul: I'm on the A7, leaving Hamburg. Four and a half hours.
Iryna: Bring the 7mm suit. The 5mm won't handle the November thermocline.
Paul: Are you already in the water?
Iryna: yeah, pretty much always in the water :)