I dunno, 50 feet down... that's about as close to attempted murder as you can get under water. Anyone who's been through any sort of dive training knows that someone's rig is about as close to holy an object that's not been personally held by Jesus can get. Ripping it out of someone's mouth aggressively like that sends a pretty strong message about what you want to happen to them.
I've trained with people who would not have survived that experience. They would have panicked and either bolted for the surface, or taken a big ol' gulp of seawater. An experienced diver like that obviously would have no trouble recovering, but he was making an awful lot of life or death assumptions about her capabilities when he did that.
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