14. No bends because he wasn't down there long enough (I'm a diver)
The bends is caused by nitrogen gas in your bloodstream being forced into muscle tissue and joints from rapid decompression. If you're not underwater (under pressure) long, nitrogen hasn't started loading into your bloodstream, so there's really none to worry about when you come back to the surface. There are divers who set records diving to hundreds of feet with no air...they take a weighted sled down and then inflate balloons on the sled and shoot back to the surface.
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