article_snippet: Friends raced down more than 30 metres to recover Friends mate and attempted to resuscitate Gold Coast teenager Sam Brown.
article_snippet: The desperate rescue attempt was captured on GoPro cameras some friends were all wearing.
article_snippet: Water Police Sergeant Shaun Harrison said Water Police Sergeant Shaun Harrison pushed through normal human limits to rescue their mate. '
article_snippet: Chad Collins, one of the friends with Gold Coast teenager Sam Brown, said Water Police Sergeant Shaun Harrison 'best mate' was 'born to swim in the ocean'. '18 months ago Water Police Sergeant Shaun Harrison wanted a new challenge so Chad Collins, one of the friends with Mr Brown went and bought a speargun off Gumtree and took up freediving,' Chad told the Gold Coast Bulletin.
article_snippet: Professional free diver and Apnea International Founder Erez Beautus, said the tragedy was a painful reminder for all divers to have a 'safety buddy' in the water. '
article_snippet: If we dive a little bit deeper - deeper than 10 metres - the sole responsibility of the safety diver is to take care of the safety diver at that moment in time.'
article_snippet: the safety diver also said the accident was 'tragic but preventable'.
highlights_snippet: Sunk 30m to ocean floor before friends dived down to rescue Gold Coast teenager Sam Brown .
  