Brisbane man saves diving friend Thirty metres below the surface, in the inky depths of the HMAS Adelaide, recreational diver Jason found his close friend trapped and struggling to breathe. The Brisbane pair had been with a group of divers exploring the wreckage off the New South Wales central coast near Terrigal on Easter Sunday when Jason suddenly realised he was alone. After turning back, Jason found his dive partner struggling in the wreckage with her mask flooded. Brisbane man Jason kept a cool head to save his friend who got into strife during a shipwreck dive. The 30-year-old woman was trying frantically to clear her breathing mask of the water, but to no avail. She started to panic. "Having a mask flooded inside a wreck is not the best thing," he said. We tried to clear the mask again ... but it got stuck in her hair and her mask actually came off. That's when things got a little bit ugly. Jason directed the woman to breathe calmly and then carried her to the surface. "I just helped her to the surface safely and then [we] got her back on the boat as quickly as we could," he said. Such is his reluctance to attract attention, Jason has requested to be known only by his first name. Yet he acknowledges his friend may not have survived to tell the tale. "Anything could have happened," he said. You can't see when you're under there, so you can't get out of the wreck if there's no one to help you. The 27-year-old aspiring divemaster said his efforts were simply "good buddy practice." "It just so happened that someone was around who knew what was going on," he said. I'd had the training and I knew what was going on. Jason said keeping a cool head was paramount under the water. The near-death experience did not deter Jason's friend from scuba diving again - she returned to the water the next day. Jason said he intends to continue to help others appreciate what lies in the depths of the ocean. The HMAS Adelaide was scuttled about 1.8 kilometres off Terrigal to create an artificial dive wreck site in 2011.