My Lucky Escape from Sipadan

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The 22nd of April 2000 was the last day of my stay at a little resort on Sipadan. The diving had been awesome, but it had been overshadowed by a leg injury I had sustained a month previously in the Red Sea, an ankle scrape probably from coral. It seemed inconsequential at the time, but the infection began to track in my leg later, with nasty-looking hematomas forming on my calf. Though I had covered them with waterproof dressings for diving, someone on the island observed that I should be careful, or I might lose my leg....

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