Last Breath (2019)

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[bubbling]

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-[man 1] You got this.
-[man 2] We have lost comms for diver two.

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[radio static]

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[man 2] We're losing
one of my divers here.

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[man 1] Come over. We have one more.

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[static stops]

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[radio static]

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[man 3] Where is he at now?

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-[man 1] Drop the fourth.
-[man 2] We're running out of time--

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[man 1] But I can't move it.
I can't move it.

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-[man 1] I've got this.
-[man 3] We can't give you any slack.

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-[man 1] Setback. Pass setback.
-[device ringing]

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[man 2] Hang in there, buddy.

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-[man 1] It won't move.
-[man 2] Bridge.

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-You've gotta get us back over there.
-[radio static]

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[waves crashing]

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-[radio static]
-[marine control] Topaz. Topaz. Topaz.

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Aberdeen Marine Control.
What's your position? Over.

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[man] Aberdeen Control,
we are 64 miles northeast of you.

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Heading for old field block 22/14-B. Over.

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[radio static]

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[marine control] Thank you, Topaz.
Update one on job. Over.

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[indistinct chatter]

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[Chris] Ah, four in.

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-Hiya, Rob. How you doing, sir?
-How you doing, Chris?

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-Yeah, yeah. Good, mate, yeah. Hi, Ally.
-All right?

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-Hey, Chris, you all right, mate?
-[Chris] Good, thanks, yeah.

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-Yeah. Yeah, sorry. [laughs]
-As long as you have got that.

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[Chris] It's, uh, yeah,
Morag wanted a bit of a tour of the ship.

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Good day. Yeah, good morning.

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[Chris] Mustard's always worth having.

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See if we can get in,
what have we got there?

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Oh, it's Jimmy Kyle
from the Black Isle. [chuckles]

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Might have to edit this one out. [laughs]

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So, I know I like to make out that, uh,
life on board's pretty Spartan.

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Uh, so what I'm about to show you, uh,

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is obviously gonna
dispel that, unfortunately.

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Because behind me...

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is a bona fide, uh, sauna.

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Behind door number two,
believe it or not...

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sunbed.

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[cow moos]

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[Morag] When Christopher went off-shore,
we enjoyed sending videos to one another.

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We've got a new calf on the croft today,
isn't it beautiful?

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That is the big news, big news from home.

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Hi, guys.

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It gave us a little part of each other,
we could share in each other’s lives,

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while we were apart.

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And it reassured us
that we were both happy.

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[all] ♪ We wish you a merry Christmas ♪

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♪ We wish you a merry Christmas ♪

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♪ We wish you a merry Christmas ♪

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♪ And a happy New Year ♪

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Merry Christmas, Lemons. [blows kisses]

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[giggles]

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It was a really,
really exciting time in our life.

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Did you get the little sign?

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It's gorgeous.

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We were due to be married
in April that year.

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We were building a house
at that time, too.

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[Chris] Enjoying that?

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[Chris blows raspberry, laughs]

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-Beep, beep.
-[both laughing]

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And I had started

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a new job as the head teacher
of the local primary school.

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We had so many plans for the future.

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It was wonderful.

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[Chris] Okay, I think I'm running.
Hi, Morag.

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Six lads living in there, but looks like
the lights are all off in there.

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What you can actually see
on the outside there

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is, uh, the little camera
they use to monitor us.

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That's pointing into the toilet,
so they can watch us have a shower.

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Think what you will.

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[Morag] I had a good understanding
of Christopher's work.

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All of these tunnels,

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gases and depths.

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Christopher often described it

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as going into space, but under water.

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[Chris laughs] Nice to see ya.

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-Yes. See you in 28 days.
-Yeah, thanks, mate, yeah. [chuckles]

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So, uh, this is the moment of truth
when we get on board, when we, uh,

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check the board to see who
we're gonna be in sat with,

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'cause that can pretty much
make or break your trip.

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And that's the two other people
you're gonna be spending

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the next month
locked in a tin can with, so...

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And if you can see it
at the same time as me.

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Yeah, team three, Chris Lemons,
Dave Yuasa, Duncan Allcock, okay.

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-[man 1] David Yuasa interview.
-[man 2] B cam, mark.

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-[interviewer] Hi, Dave.
-[Dave] Hi.

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Uh, there are some people
that you get on great with.

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Other people
that you don't get on well with,

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and no one wants to be in with a knob.

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Duncan I knew very well.
I'd worked with him

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over the years quite a few times.

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He's got a very good reputation
on the boat.

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[Duncan] You do have to be a certain breed
to work in an RC.

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Slightly unhinged, um,
a little bit abnormal.

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They don't have problems,
they have solutions.

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Certainly, the guys that I've worked with

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are one of a kind.

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Dave's a very cool guy.

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Uh, he... He doesn't get stressed.
He doesn't get anxious.

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Very, very logical.
Who keeps himself to himself.

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I'm not famed at work for, um,

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being a particularly,
uh, emotional person.

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I think, uh, "Vulcan" is how a few people
have described me.

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Chris was relatively new,
I'd not dived with him.

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But I think he dived with Duncan
quite a few times

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and, um, Duncan was his, uh,

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his sat daddy.

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[laughs] That sounds weird
now I've said it out loud, eh?

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I was there for Chris' first sat.

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And then we did four sats
in a row after that, together.

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The bond you get with that is massive.

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I got to know him very, very well.

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He was a very amiable guy.

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[Dave] I had a little word with Duncan
and said, "What is this Chris guy like?"

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And, uh, I got a thumbs up,
and I was happy to go in with him.

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[man on radio] Captain Strong,
we're six hours away from the job.

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[grunts]

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[man] This is all we're currently
suffering from aches and pains, bruising,

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joint discomfort,
skin numbness sensations.

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[clattering]

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[indistinct chatter]

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[Chris] Hi, boys.

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Uh, as you can see
there's not a huge deal of space.

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Probably only half a foot or so
between the bunks down here.

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Dunc's in there, uh, getting his ready.

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And then this is the living end,
got, sort of, benches and, uh,

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a bit of a table.

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One of the very few port holes we've got,

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so that's pretty much the only sight
of the outside world that you have.

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So, I got to crawl
through these little tunnels

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to get from place to place.

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And down this way
is what we call the "wet pot."

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So, I just push that door open.

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Basically, the toilet and the shower room,
so various ablutions, that kind of thing.

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Yeah, if I stand at my full height,

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there's absolutely everything
I can knock my head on.

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It's a real pain for me,

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that's why I've always
got gashes all over me.

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And the magic of it is, once you've done
the full circuit, you're back to...

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You're back to where you started
and a cup of tea. And a cup of tea. Yeah.

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-[Duncan] Mind me chocolate stash.
-[Chris laughs]

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That's ridiculous, Duncan,
how much you got...

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How much have you got in there?

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-[Duncan] Just a bar for every day.
-[Chris] A bar for every day. [chuckles]

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I've only started just to check them out.

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-Yeah.
-[Chris laughs] Glad I'm in with you.

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Okay, lads, if everyone's ready,
we'll go for blowdown.

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[locks clicking]

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[gas hissing]

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[hissing continues]

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Okay, lads,
we'll stop and check for leaks.

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[spraying]

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[Dave] On this particular job,
we were working at 100 meters.

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So, they pump into the chamber,

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the equivalent pressure of 100 meters
of water in heliox.

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Which is a mix of helium and oxygen.

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And then we are effectively
at an equal pressure to the seabed.

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[man on radio] That's a seal confirmed.

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I'll continue with the blowdown.

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-[static]
-[Duncan speaking in squeaky voice]

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As soon as you get a breath of helium gas,

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you start speaking with a squeaky voice.

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[continues speaking in squeaky voice]

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-[man] Okay. Cheers, lads.
-[Duncan] Yeah, mate.

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The first 30 seconds
is always quite humorous.

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After that, the novelty wears off.

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[gas hissing]

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[hissing stops]

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[man] Okay, lads,
we've reached depth. Blowdown over.

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[man speaking indistinctly on radio]

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[Duncan] Thank you.

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[Dave] Sat is a very odd environment
to live in.

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There's very little privacy.

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Your whole world seems to shrink
to the size of the system.

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[Duncan] Living in sat
is extremely intense.

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I think everybody
copes with it differently.

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[Dave taking deep breaths]

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[Dave] Most divers have got two personas.

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They've got their work persona
and their home persona.

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At home, I'm David, a father of three.

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And Dave is a professional diver.

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He, um...

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He's responsible only for the job in hand.

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[Dave taking labored breaths]

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[Duncan] Chris was definitely
a little more anxious.

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Not been sat diving long.

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Trying to make sure that he is, uh,
keeping up with everybody else,

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that he has got all the right equipment,
that he's not gonna embarrass himself.

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But very conscious
that people are watching his every move.

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Quite a lot of pressure.

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He wanted to look good for everybody.
He wanted to be a good diver.

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The best diver.

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[Dave] Before I got into sat diving,

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I always, kind of,
looked out at the North Sea

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as the... The premiership of diving.

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There's a lot of DSPs there.
There's a lot of diving going on there.

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And this particular job,
the field we were working at

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was about 12 hours steam
away from Aberdeen.

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So that... That puts you pretty much
in the middle of the North Sea.

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The North Sea can be unpredictable,

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and the weather wasn't very good
at the time.

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The boat was moving around a fair bit.

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[Duncan] The North Sea is definitely

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one of the most dangerous
environments in the world.

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The water temperature's four degrees
on the seabed,

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which is a killer.

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[Morag] I realize there's dangers
on the job. I realized that.

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But Chris had reassured me continually
that he would be safe.

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That he wasn't in harm’s way.

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I thought that he was happy
in his saturation tank.

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So, no, I didn't ever worry.

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[radio static]

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[man] Aberdeen Control,
Aberdeen Control. This is Topaz. Over.

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[marine control] Go ahead, Topaz. Over.

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[man] We are on live oil field.
Block 22/14-B.

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Holding, we have to start work
immediately. Over and out.

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-[man 1] Ready?
-[man 2] Yeah, I'm ready.

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[man 1] Okay, everything is on zero.

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One, four, five, six running.

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[man 2] Okay, that's all thrusters
in DP mode.

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[man 1] I have two GPSs selected
for reference systems.

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[man 2] Yeah.

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[indistinct radio chatter]

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[man 1] Okay, Captain, we are on DP now.

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[Craig] Okay, boys, five minutes' notice
to getting in the bell.

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Well, the divers are my puppets,
I'm the, uh...

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The conductor of a small band,
they are, uh, my hands and my feet.

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And they, uh, essentially do
what I ask them to do.

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When the diver's in the water,

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I am the most important person
on the vessel.

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And everyone will defer to me.

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Okay, first man entering the bell.

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-[metal clanking]
-[Duncan breathing heavily]

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[Craig] Duncan was the bellman,
he wouldn't be diving that night.

238
00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:01,280
He'd be in the bell
looking after the divers.

239
00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:05,840
Dave Yuasa was diver one.

240
00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,280
And Chris Lemons was diver two.

241
00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,840
Bridge, that's bell
off the system at 2013.

242
00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:16,360
[Michal] 2013 off system.

243
00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,040
[Craig] Okay, boys, taking you down now.

244
00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:24,680
[whirring]

245
00:19:49,080 --> 00:19:51,840
[Michal] Bridge,
that's bell at surface at 2021.

246
00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,600
[Craig] Thank you, ROV.
Coming through now.

247
00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,080
[man] Reached working depths of 90 meters.

248
00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:25,840
[Duncan] When you're lifting the helmet
onto the diver's head,

249
00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:27,200
you're looking at their eyes.

250
00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:32,440
You can then see if the diver's happy
or frightened out of his wits,

251
00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:34,800
because you can see more white than eyes.

252
00:20:34,880 --> 00:20:36,840
[Chris breathing heavily
through respirator]

253
00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:42,560
At no point that evening
was Chris anxious.

254
00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:46,680
-[breathing heavily through respirator]
-He was raring to go.

255
00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,000
He wanted to prove that he was
as good as everybody else.

256
00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:55,840
[all speaking in squeaky voice]

257
00:21:15,120 --> 00:21:16,880
[heavy breathing continues]

258
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:30,760
[Duncan] Chris, here's the lights.

259
00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:32,560
[man in normal voice]
Here's the lights, Chris.

260
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:39,280
[Craig] Bridge, that's diver two
in the water at 2037.

261
00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:41,360
[indistinct radio chatter]

262
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:49,440
[heavy breathing continues]

263
00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:02,760
That's you on onboard graph, Chris.

264
00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:10,080
Duncan, tend to diver two's umbilical.

265
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,120
[Dave] When the diver is out of the bell,
he is completely reliant on his umbilical.

266
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,200
It gives him his hot water
which he needs to keep him warm.

267
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:35,840
Gives him gas to breathe and also lighting
and communication with the surface.

268
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,400
[indistinct radio chatter]

269
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,640
It is literally your lifeline.

270
00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:47,760
[in squeaky voice]

271
00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:52,680
[Craig in normal voice] Diver two,
that's you clear to drop off the bell.

272
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:04,040
[Dave] Dropping off the bell
is one of my favorite parts of diving.

273
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,400
I love the feeling of weightlessness.

274
00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,920
You're effectively flying down
to the seabed.

275
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:28,600
If your visibility is bad,
you really don't know

276
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:30,160
what you're dropping into.

277
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,800
Or when you're gonna be landing.

278
00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:47,320
[radio static crackling]

279
00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:58,960
It's a dark and confusing place to be,
on the seabed.

280
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:02,480
It can be extremely easy to get lost.

281
00:24:04,360 --> 00:24:05,880
[in squeaky voice]

282
00:24:08,240 --> 00:24:09,880
[Craig in normal voice]
Diver two, the job should be

283
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,360
30 meters to your northwest.

284
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,200
[Dave] The umbilical
is your physical tether to the boat.

285
00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:27,680
And if you ever need to get back
to the bell

286
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,200
you will follow your umbilical.

287
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,000
That's your route back to safety.

288
00:24:37,440 --> 00:24:41,200
[Craig] In the dark it's almost harder
to get to the job than to do the job.

289
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,240
The seabed plays tricks on you.

290
00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:54,600
The first ten minutes
is quite a stressful time.

291
00:24:58,120 --> 00:24:59,520
I notice it in their breathing.

292
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:03,040
[Chris breathing heavily]

293
00:25:15,360 --> 00:25:18,760
[Craig] Bridge,
both divers on the job at 2049.

294
00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:27,480
[Dave] The structure we're working on
is called a manifold.

295
00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,360
[metal rattling, creaking]

296
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,400
Inside there,
you've got a number of, uh, wells.

297
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,240
The oil will come up out of the ground

298
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,760
and from there it gets piped off
to a platform.

299
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:50,080
The job in hand was gonna be
to remove, uh, a piece of pipe work.

300
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,160
And we were gonna float in a new piece
into its place.

301
00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:56,240
[metal creaking]

302
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:06,520
When you're working with divers
you are almost reaching through the screen

303
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,160
and turning the knobs for them.

304
00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:11,480
You do get emotionally involved with them.

305
00:26:12,280 --> 00:26:14,960
You feel their successes and failures
in the water.

306
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:17,520
[Chris speaking indistinctly]

307
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:19,520
And basically, you see A and B.

308
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,720
We're opening and closing them
in a sequence.

309
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,480
And then doing a pressure test.

310
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:33,880
[heavy breathing continues]

311
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:40,040
[Duncan] Once you've got your divers
on the job,

312
00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:41,960
as bellman, you can relax a bit more.

313
00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,760
See what I've got in me sandwiches
for half-time.

314
00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,040
There's never a day I go to work
and don't enjoy it.

315
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:58,680
[indistinct radio chatter]

316
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,920
Me first inspirations for diving,

317
00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:09,280
were definitely from watching
Jacques Cousteau on the TV

318
00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:13,800
and thinking, "That is exactly
what I would like to do."

319
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:16,320
Visiting coral reefs,

320
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:19,440
swimming along with all the animals.

321
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,120
It just looked absolutely superb.

322
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:32,720
It was a dream for me to be a diver

323
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:34,800
and go under the sea.

324
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:39,200
[Craig] And, uh... Dave,
you keep working on it, all right?

325
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:40,200
Go ahead, shut it.

326
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:43,320
[Craig] Roger that.

327
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:46,680
[Morag] Christopher came to diving
a little bit later in life.

328
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,160
-He was looking for direction.
-[Craig] Normal reading.

329
00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,120
No leaks.

330
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,480
[Morag] Diving was something that he was
extremely passionate about.

331
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,720
I would never have considered
asking Christopher

332
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:05,360
to take a different career path.

333
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:07,160
Never.

334
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:11,200
That's what he wanted to do,
that's what he was passionate about.

335
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:16,040
If I was as passionate
about a job like that as Christopher was

336
00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:19,520
then I wouldn't want anyone to stop me,
so I definitely wouldn't stop him.

337
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:21,960
[waves crashing]

338
00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:32,560
[Craig] That night the weather
was not good.

339
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:36,880
There was an 18-foot swell,
35 knots of wind.

340
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,280
We were on the limits of diving.

341
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,560
But it wasn't undiveable.

342
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:52,720
[Michal] Weather was rough.

343
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,120
But in the North Sea, nothing special.

344
00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:57,560
[metal walls creaking]

345
00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,880
It was perfectly safe.

346
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,920
If you can call this job safe, it's not...

347
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:05,800
Come on, it's not safe job, yeah, so...

348
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:10,920
I was in charge
for controlling DP computer.

349
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,000
Keeping vessel in, uh, exact position,

350
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,240
so divers can be safe in the water.

351
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,080
This moment, vessel was steady.

352
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,280
And then it started.

353
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,200
[alarm blaring]

354
00:29:52,720 --> 00:29:55,400
I saw alarm, which I never seen before.

355
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,040
Immediately, after this alarm,

356
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,080
more faults coming one by one.

357
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:09,600
We have really big, uh, big problem,
because we are losing control of the...

358
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:10,560
Of the vessel.

359
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:13,000
We are losing position.

360
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,400
[Craig] The bridge gave me an amber light.

361
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,640
Its suddenness and the immediacy
of his voice told me

362
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:33,080
that, uh, this wasn't
a normal amber light.

363
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:35,840
Leave everything there,
leave everything there, Chris.

364
00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:41,600
So, I wanted my divers back on the bell
as quickly as possible.

365
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:43,840
[Craig] Get out of the structure, boys.

366
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:46,000
[in squeaky voice]

367
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,560
[Craig] Yeah.
He's here at the bell, Duncan,

368
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:54,000
come up on diver one,
diver two, back when you can.

369
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,160
Stand by to come up
on diver one and diver two.

370
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:04,480
Roger that. No problem.

371
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:07,080
In a series of seconds,
we had a red light.

372
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:13,600
I've never had a red light.

373
00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,520
The bridge had lost control of the vessel
and its navigational systems,

374
00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:21,560
so it will drift with the weather.

375
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:24,080
And as soon as we got to that stage
it was a sailboat.

376
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:25,480
[indistinct radio chatter]

377
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,040
I was surprised
at how quickly the ship moved.

378
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:34,840
It rapidly picked up speed.

379
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:39,360
'Cause we had no control over the ship,

380
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,520
we had no control
of what was happening on the bottom.

381
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,480
[Michal] Divers were still connected
to the, um, bell

382
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:49,960
and bell connected to the vessel.

383
00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,160
So, basically, we can track diver.

384
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,480
It's... It's the worst scenario

385
00:31:57,560 --> 00:32:01,480
which, uh, DP on diving support vessel
can... Can expect.

386
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:03,400
[Craig] Go back underneath the bell.

387
00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:08,560
[Dave] When we came out of the structure,

388
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,200
I was expecting the bell to be
basically in front of me over here.

389
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:13,840
[Dave exclaims indistinctly]

390
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:15,480
I could tell from the root
of my umbilical

391
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,320
that in fact, it was now behind me

392
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:20,200
and the manifold itself
is in between me and the bell.

393
00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:25,040
[in squeaky voice]

394
00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:29,280
[Craig] They have to climb
their umbilicals

395
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:30,760
up the side of the structure,

396
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,640
traverse across the top and climb
their umbilicals back to the bell

397
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:35,960
to their safe haven.

398
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,960
But the, um, structure was the obstacle
that they had to clear.

399
00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:43,040
[Craig] Hop up onto the structure, boys.

400
00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:48,520
[Dave] When I was nearly at the top,

401
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,080
I noticed that Chris didn't seem
to be going any further.

402
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,320
I could tell something was wrong.

403
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,920
[Craig] Chris had a loop of umbilical
wrapped around this outcrop.

404
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:08,800
He was trapped.

405
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,400
[in squeaky voice]

406
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,160
[Chris breathing rapidly]

407
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,240
[Craig]
It started to get tighter and tighter.

408
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:22,800
I've never seen an umbilical this tight.

409
00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:29,600
[Craig] Chris could see the tension in it.
He was asking for slack out of the bell.

410
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,520
He couldn't get the slack out of the bell
because the ship kept moving away.

411
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:42,920
[Craig] Chris, we cannot
give you any slack.

412
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,560
We've got an enormous ship,
120 meters long by 20 meters wide,

413
00:33:51,640 --> 00:33:54,000
being pushed by 35 knots of wind.

414
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,240
And Chris was our anchor on the other end.

415
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,760
I didn't see a scenario
where he was gonna get out of this.

416
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:05,320
[Chris breathing heavily]

417
00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:06,560
[in squeaky voice]

418
00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:14,120
[Duncan] Chris' umbilical went so tight,
that it actually started pulling

419
00:34:14,199 --> 00:34:17,600
his stainless steel umbilical
right off the wall.

420
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:21,040
I was shitting myself.

421
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:23,960
I was literally waiting
for the inevitable, it...

422
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,480
Just to all go through the hole
in the floor.

423
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,679
And if I got between it and the hole,
I would be going out with it.

424
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,520
[Craig] Chris, you... You gotta clear
that umbilical yourself.

425
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,600
[Dave] I'm trying to make my way
back to Chris to help him.

426
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:46,920
[Dave grunts]

427
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:52,320
[grunts]

428
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:55,960
We're, maybe, less than two meters apart,

429
00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:00,640
the visibility is good enough that we...
We can look into each other’s faces.

430
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:04,200
I can see that he's in trouble.

431
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,120
[Dave breathing heavily]

432
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,320
But that's now me at the end
of my umbilical.

433
00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:16,520
And I can't get to him.

434
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,080
[metal creaking]

435
00:35:19,920 --> 00:35:21,680
His umbilical is getting thinner.

436
00:35:23,240 --> 00:35:24,640
I can hear it creaking.

437
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,760
It's the noise that something makes
before it breaks.

438
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:30,040
[grunts]

439
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:33,080
[Chris breathing rapidly]

440
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:39,280
-[indistinct radio chatter]
-[snapping]

441
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,320
-Lost comm to the diver two.
-[Chris] Help.

442
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,120
[Dave] As I was getting pulled away
from Chris,

443
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,000
it was almost like watching a film.

444
00:35:58,040 --> 00:35:59,800
And that was the last I saw of him.

445
00:36:00,720 --> 00:36:01,600
[Dave groans]

446
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,480
And I could hear his umbilical ripping...

447
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:12,760
as the strands in the umbilical broke
one by one.

448
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,160
[snapping]

449
00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:15,440
[metal creaks]

450
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:17,160
[metal thud]

451
00:36:23,600 --> 00:36:24,600
[radio static]

452
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,120
[Craig] Bridge,
we have lost all eyes on the job.

453
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:30,840
[Dave breathing heavily]

454
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,120
[Dave] There was nothing I could do now
to help Chris.

455
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,800
There was no way of getting back to him
at that point.

456
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:45,600
[heavy breathing continues]

457
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,480
Uh, I turn around
and start climbing back to the bell.

458
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:57,560
There's a lot of resistance.

459
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:01,240
It felt like I was climbing back
through a river.

460
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:10,560
I don't think I was thinking too hard
about the tragedy that was unfolding.

461
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,560
At that point, my priority
was to get back to the bell

462
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:21,360
and look after my own safety.

463
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:24,880
[heavy breathing continues]

464
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:34,440
[metal creaking]

465
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:38,440
I'm worried that maybe
I'm going to get pulled in

466
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:40,560
to another structure down there.

467
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,600
And I knew that if I got
caught up in one of them,

468
00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,960
it would've made a...
A very, very bad situation a lot worse.

469
00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:18,120
[Duncan] I was hoping
I was pulling Chris in.

470
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,280
But in my heart of hearts I knew I wasn't.

471
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:25,920
Um... [sighs] I knew
there was nothing on the end.

472
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:36,280
Hot water hose came in first.

473
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,000
Broken and tattered at the end.

474
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,040
And I had another couple of wraps
of umbilical to pull in

475
00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:49,680
before the broken end
of his gas hose came in.

476
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,080
Now, that is making a...
Quite an immense noise.

477
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:03,520
[gas hissing]

478
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:11,920
I put my hand on the regulator
to turn it off.

479
00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:13,560
[hissing continues]

480
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:22,680
You never ever turn a diver's gas off
when he's in the water.

481
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:25,400
It's tantamount to killing him.

482
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:26,600
[gas hissing]

483
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:28,880
[water gurgling]

484
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:36,920
[hissing stops]

485
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:46,040
I did feel as though
I was letting Chris down.

486
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,720
That was the end of his lifeline
to the bell.

487
00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:57,360
I, um...

488
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,520
I could've cried at that point.
I didn't know whether to be sick, cry,

489
00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:00,800
whatever, I just shouted.

490
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,120
"I've lost me diver, I've lost me diver."

491
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:06,520
[breathing heavily]

492
00:40:07,840 --> 00:40:08,920
And, uh...

493
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,880
[voice breaking] I didn't know
what was happening to Dave, so...

494
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,880
I had to be sensible
and pull myself back together.

495
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,160
[Dave breathing heavily
through respirator]

496
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,680
[Dave] I got back onto the stage,
underneath the bell,

497
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:28,680
and I waited there.

498
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,200
That's when I had a little bit more time
to think about what had happened

499
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:34,840
and... And what was going to happen.

500
00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:43,920
In air diving, you've always got
the option of, um,

501
00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,680
of being able to swim up to the surface,
but in sat diving,

502
00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:50,160
the only place you can go,
literally, the only place you can go...

503
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:52,640
is the bell.

504
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,920
Normally, you're connected to the bell
by your umbilical,

505
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:01,800
but he's got no umbilical,
so the bell isn't anywhere near him.

506
00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:05,600
He's got no options at all.

507
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:11,920
[Duncan] I knew he was out there
on his own.

508
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:15,480
And all he had
was his two bailout bottles.

509
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:20,160
[Dave] If we lost our main supply
in an emergency,

510
00:41:20,240 --> 00:41:24,440
we would have enough gas in the bottle
on our back to get back to the bell.

511
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:30,000
It's not designed to keep you
on the seabed for any length of time.

512
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:34,880
[Duncan] There's no other gas
he can get to.

513
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,280
He's limited
to what's in his bailout bottles.

514
00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,280
And they're not that big.

515
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,280
It is literally five minutes.

516
00:41:52,480 --> 00:41:54,240
[ticking]

517
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,200
[alarm blaring]

518
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,320
[Craig] We had a time critical window
till we get back and recover Chris.

519
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:05,720
So, I got everybody up.

520
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:15,360
We need every mind focused
in case we miss anything.

521
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:17,880
[alarm continues]

522
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,040
[indistinct chatter on radio]

523
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:30,880
[Stuart] I was in the next team
that was supposed to go diving.

524
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,200
And the life support supervisor
came on the comms, quite serious,

525
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,120
and he said, "Stu, I've got a problem."

526
00:42:37,240 --> 00:42:40,440
I said, "Well, does that make it
my problem or is it just your problem?"

527
00:42:42,240 --> 00:42:45,600
And he came back with,
"We've left a diver on the manifold.

528
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:50,240
We're going to set in the medical gear,
you're the diver medic,

529
00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:51,680
just go and get ready."

530
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,920
There's always several diver medics
in saturation.

531
00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:02,880
You have to have one in each team.

532
00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:05,800
Usually it's... It's cuts, it's grazes.

533
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,240
I was scared, because...

534
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:16,680
this was something that was
so out of our normal working routine.

535
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,280
You don't want to have to be involved
in something like that.

536
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,840
That's not gonna end well.

537
00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:33,600
[Craig] The situation was desperate,

538
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:38,080
and we're still out of control,
drifting away from Chris.

539
00:43:40,240 --> 00:43:43,320
Computers that control
the dynamic positioning

540
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:46,960
weren't operational, they were redundant,
all three of them.

541
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:48,240
[beeping]

542
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,320
Computer that was running the DP...

543
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:52,120
it failed.

544
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:55,280
The backup which ghosts it all the time...

545
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:57,880
it failed.

546
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:01,560
And the master computer,
it failed as well.

547
00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,800
So, you have a situation
where the impossible has happened.

548
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,000
The vessel could not be controlled
using the computers.

549
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:19,080
[Michal] So, we are just drifting.

550
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:23,960
We have to try to...

551
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:25,360
To get back control.

552
00:44:29,040 --> 00:44:32,160
Captain decides to take computer
out of the loop

553
00:44:32,240 --> 00:44:35,000
and use fully manual system.

554
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:39,560
This system is designed to use in a harbor

555
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:43,120
when you don't have waves,
wind is not too much.

556
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:48,040
The bridge crew had to learn
how to control the ship with, uh,

557
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:49,240
four thruster handles.

558
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:53,560
Problem is that they are installed
on two, uh... Two consoles.

559
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:55,480
One man doesn't have four hands.

560
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:58,720
No one ever anticipated having to do this.

561
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:04,280
[Michal] I never saw a captain
and chief officer doing this before.

562
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:05,880
[indistinct radio chatter]

563
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:13,080
Sometimes it was going very well.

564
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:16,440
And then, was coming one, uh, big wave.

565
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,600
It was changing our heading again.

566
00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,240
[Craig] Bridge, you've gotta get us
back over there.

567
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:30,840
[Michal] They want us to be there quickly,

568
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:33,400
but, uh, we are doing what we can do.

569
00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:36,080
[engine revs]

570
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:44,640
[Stuart] In saturation, you start
to get a bit of a sixth sense

571
00:45:44,720 --> 00:45:47,280
for your particular vessel,
the sounds it makes.

572
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:51,080
The engines were thrusting really heavily.

573
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:52,000
[engine revs]

574
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,040
[Dave] The boat was moving around
in quite an erratic way,

575
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:04,800
it was moving from side to side.

576
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:08,440
And that was quite a rough ride
on the bell.

577
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,600
[Duncan] I was constantly trying
to calm myself down.

578
00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:21,520
I knew Chris, I knew Morag,

579
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:22,880
I... I was wondering...

580
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,640
how we're gonna explain it to, uh, her.

581
00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,440
"We went on a dive
and he never came back."

582
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:32,960
[clicks tongue] Um...

583
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,120
Yeah, I was struggling to contain myself.

584
00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:48,920
[waves crashing]

585
00:46:56,560 --> 00:46:59,200
[Craig] Even though I could work out
that he's run out of gas,

586
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:03,680
I had to believe that Chris
was still alive and recoverable.

587
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:08,520
First, we had to find him.

588
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:19,880
And the ROV was the only tool I had
at the time that was functioning.

589
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:24,880
ROV, can you try
and find my diver, please?

590
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:29,720
Now, the ROV can swim in the water

591
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:34,000
maybe 150, 200 meters away from the ship
without too much problem.

592
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,440
So, we headed to the structure.

593
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:47,560
It was the most logical place
to find Chris.

594
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,280
[indistinct radio chatter]

595
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,160
But we didn't know whether or not
Chris was on top of the structure

596
00:47:57,240 --> 00:47:59,560
or beside it, on the seabed below.

597
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:23,400
It was very long feeling
when the ROV was flying, flying, flying.

598
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,960
It was explained to me
that it was an idea to give

599
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,960
Chris, uh, some sign
that we are coming back.

600
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:42,240
So, um, he can find extra energy power,
um, to stay alive.

601
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:02,960
[Craig] It was getting closer and closer

602
00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:06,120
and I remember staring at the ROV screen,
black and white,

603
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,200
asking, "Can anyone see anything?"

604
00:49:23,360 --> 00:49:25,040
[indistinct radio chatter]

605
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:38,000
[chatter continues]

606
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:46,480
We willed that structure to appear.

607
00:49:58,080 --> 00:49:59,920
Then, it appeared.

608
00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:55,720
[Craig] The ROV technician said,
"Craig, he's all right."

609
00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:58,760
I said, "How do you know that?"

610
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:02,520
And he said, "Well, he's...
He's waving at us."

611
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:21,360
Before we arrive with ROV,

612
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:26,840
I was sure that we recover him,
after this, I didn't know.

613
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:35,120
You have to remember that that's
not just... Just some person.

614
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:40,080
That's the human you know,
who was sitting, uh, next to you...

615
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:45,640
passing on the corridors.

616
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:49,600
[Chris] One hand for the ship
at all times.

617
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:51,960
There we go, health and safety.

618
00:51:53,560 --> 00:51:55,440
[Michal] He was coming
to the bridge sometimes.

619
00:51:55,520 --> 00:51:56,600
-Hey, Chris. How are you?
-[Chris] Very well, thanks.

620
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:57,600
-How are you?
-Not bad, thanks.

621
00:52:02,000 --> 00:52:06,200
[Michal] Now you can see him
absolutely alone.

622
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:19,720
[Craig] A lot of people were shocked
at the image.

623
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:23,600
But I took a massive boost out of that.

624
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,120
Well, for one,
he was on top of the structure,

625
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,240
which was crucial for his recovery.

626
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:37,800
And he was twitching.

627
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:41,280
He was still alive.

628
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:52,040
[clock ticking]

629
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:02,280
We were still some distance away
from where we needed to be.

630
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,840
And we still didn't have DP control
of the vessel.

631
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,280
We were moving back
to the structure manually...

632
00:53:12,720 --> 00:53:13,880
which was very difficult.

633
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:19,720
The ship didn't seem to be making
the progress as quickly as we thought

634
00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,760
and everything was slowing down in time.

635
00:53:25,080 --> 00:53:27,000
[clock ticking]

636
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:39,640
Slowly, but surely the twitching...
it stopped.

637
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,160
And in my mind's eye,
that was a final phase for Chris.

638
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:03,200
Some couldn't face the reality of it,
they didn't want to be involved

639
00:54:03,280 --> 00:54:06,520
in a situation that would, uh...
Would be a very dark time.

640
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:14,200
I think all those thoughts were starting
to run through people's minds,

641
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:15,280
"What happens next?"

642
00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:21,040
[Stuart] After 25 minutes,

643
00:54:22,440 --> 00:54:27,560
uh, we... We couldn't
really find anything to grasp.

644
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:32,000
We were sure that he was...

645
00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:34,320
It was going to be a body recovery.

646
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:44,720
[Dave] It was odd being on the bell,

647
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:46,320
thinking about what had happened.

648
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:51,760
I don't remember being particularly upset
about Chris, um...

649
00:54:51,840 --> 00:54:54,360
Shit happens, he was a...
He wasn't my best mate,

650
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:57,280
he wasn't one of my kids
and, um, it was a diving job,

651
00:54:57,360 --> 00:54:58,560
and it had gone wrong.

652
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,760
[breathing deeply]

653
00:55:11,440 --> 00:55:13,600
I started praying as hard as I could.

654
00:55:13,680 --> 00:55:15,960
Um, I'm not a religious person at all,

655
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:17,160
but, uh...

656
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:20,320
In moments like that...

657
00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:27,600
But at no point did I lower myself

658
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:29,840
to think that we weren't
gonna get him back.

659
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:32,360
Definitely not.

660
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:36,440
There was no way where...

661
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:39,240
[clicks tongue] I was going to go home

662
00:55:39,320 --> 00:55:43,240
[voice breaking] and explain to Morag
that Chris wasn't coming back.

663
00:55:50,720 --> 00:55:54,320
[Michal] We try everything
to get DP system back online.

664
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:57,920
We never had first options
and last options.

665
00:55:58,160 --> 00:56:01,680
We never had checklist,
what to do, step by step,

666
00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:03,640
in case of problem like this.

667
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:09,480
It was more like brainstorm and, uh,
trying everything what we can try.

668
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:11,760
[machine whirring]

669
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:14,720
One of the last options
was to do hard reset.

670
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:17,360
-[beeping]
-[whirring slows]

671
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,520
There was nothing else what we can do.

672
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:31,640
And we wait.

673
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:40,480
[Craig] We've gotta get a good card soon.

674
00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:47,000
You know, we've pulled
all the bad cards out,

675
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:48,840
we've gotta start getting some luck now.

676
00:56:53,720 --> 00:56:56,280
-[beeping]
-[machine whirs]

677
00:57:05,480 --> 00:57:08,280
[Michal] Lucky for us,
the system get back online.

678
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:11,760
Oh, it was amazing, good, uh, good news.

679
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:15,640
It was massive relief for me

680
00:57:16,560 --> 00:57:17,760
and everyone on the bridge.

681
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:23,520
As soon as DP was back online

682
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:25,800
and we put vessel in, uh, auto mode,

683
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,000
we can move straight back to Chris.

684
00:57:31,720 --> 00:57:33,200
But maybe we are too late.

685
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:51,640
[Craig] Now we were making real progress.

686
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:54,640
We were getting closer and closer.

687
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:01,360
[Dave] My adrenaline's still flowing.
I wanna get it done.

688
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:07,320
I kept asking, "Are we nearly there yet?"

689
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:10,800
[Craig] Dave was keen to go.

690
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:13,040
I... I remember holding him back.

691
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:15,560
Duncan, take up all of Dave's slack.

692
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:20,560
[Duncan] It's like
having a dog on a leash.

693
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,800
Until I give him some slack,
he can't go anywhere.

694
00:58:25,240 --> 00:58:26,240
[metal creaks]

695
00:58:26,320 --> 00:58:28,680
[Dave breathing heavily
through respirator]

696
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,560
[Dave] Craig was telling me the distance.

697
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:34,560
"You've got 50 meters to run."

698
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:37,000
[Duncan panting]

699
00:58:39,000 --> 00:58:40,640
[Dave] "Thirty meters to run.

700
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:46,480
Twenty meters to run."

701
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:51,320
-[panting]
-[metal creaking]

702
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:57,120
[Dave] I could see the lights of the ROV.

703
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:01,720
I could see Chris.

704
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:29,440
[Craig] Okay, Dave, you're clear to go.

705
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:02,520
[Dave] I wasn't surprised by what I saw.

706
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:12,840
A dead guy on the roof of the manifold.

707
01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:35,200
I knew that it was gonna be hard
to get back to the bell.

708
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,240
The dead weight of Chris was very heavy.

709
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:41,400
The boat was moving up and down.

710
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:46,080
But I'm there to do my job
and do what I'm told to do.

711
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:56,520
I wasn't thinking, "This is Chris Lemons.

712
01:01:01,960 --> 01:01:04,080
This is the guy who's building a house.

713
01:01:09,960 --> 01:01:12,400
This is the guy who's engaged
to be married."

714
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:24,120
He's a thing that needs to be taken
from one place to another.

715
01:02:16,440 --> 01:02:18,320
[Duncan pants]

716
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:25,640
[Duncan] I tried not to think
Chris was dead.

717
01:02:29,840 --> 01:02:31,520
Possibly deep down...

718
01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:33,520
I had a thought he might have been.

719
01:02:55,400 --> 01:02:57,480
[Duncan exhales]

720
01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:00,720
I gave him two deep breaths.

721
01:03:03,920 --> 01:03:06,200
[Duncan exhales]

722
01:03:06,840 --> 01:03:10,200
I am just hoping with everything I've got

723
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:11,640
that I can bring him round.

724
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:13,680
That I am gonna make him breathe again.

725
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:43,640
[sighs]

726
01:03:47,560 --> 01:03:48,920
[both chuckle]

727
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:53,360
[Chris] It's very hard
to communicate to people

728
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:55,600
quite what I went through and what I felt.

729
01:03:57,080 --> 01:03:59,880
It's a time that I reflect on quite a lot.

730
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:05,160
I often try and put myself
back in that position.

731
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:08,160
To jog my own memory,

732
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:10,120
or to try and recreate what happened,

733
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:11,560
because I have the same questions.

734
01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:14,000
-Thanks very much. Thank you, Cheryl.
-[indistinct radio chatter]

735
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:16,240
[Craig] Chris,
we cannot give you any slack.

736
01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:18,680
[indistinct radio chatter]

737
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:23,920
[overlapping, echoing conversations]

738
01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:30,800
[Chris] There was this very,
very violent bang.

739
01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:35,320
And then there was instant silence.

740
01:04:57,640 --> 01:04:58,560
[breathing through respirator]

741
01:04:58,640 --> 01:05:02,640
It's very disorientating
when it's so, so dark.

742
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:13,560
It's the most absolute blackness
I think I've ever seen.

743
01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:19,280
[breathing continues]

744
01:05:20,560 --> 01:05:24,560
All my efforts at that point
were focused on finding my structure.

745
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:25,840
Getting to the top.

746
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:29,200
That was to make it easier
for them to rescue me.

747
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:38,000
But, uh, I didn't know where I was.
I couldn't see anything at all.

748
01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:43,320
I was panicking.

749
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:51,000
There was a real danger of walking out
in the wrong direction

750
01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:55,480
to, effectively, no man's land...

751
01:05:57,200 --> 01:05:59,200
and never be able to find your way back.

752
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:07,520
But I had to make a decision.
I... I couldn't just stand there.

753
01:06:09,280 --> 01:06:10,840
I had to choose a direction.

754
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:17,200
It came down, essentially,
to pot luck from there on.

755
01:06:22,560 --> 01:06:24,320
[heavy breathing continues]

756
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:39,080
[metal thudding]

757
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:41,640
Then I bumped straight into the structure.

758
01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:49,280
It was 11 meters above me,
the platform that I needed to be on.

759
01:07:02,080 --> 01:07:03,760
[heavy breathing continues]

760
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:14,920
I'm expecting to see the lights
of the diving bell above me.

761
01:07:20,440 --> 01:07:21,640
There was nothing.

762
01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:29,880
I was completely alone.

763
01:07:41,800 --> 01:07:43,160
[breathing continues]

764
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,280
I've probably got five or six minutes
in this bailout.

765
01:07:53,240 --> 01:07:57,160
I must've used it for two or three minutes
getting myself up here to the top.

766
01:08:00,640 --> 01:08:02,840
Even if the diving bell
had been directly above me,

767
01:08:02,920 --> 01:08:05,920
it would've taken the remainder of the gas
that I had left on my back

768
01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:07,560
just to get back there, if I was lucky.

769
01:08:07,640 --> 01:08:11,200
So, at that point,
once you've calmed and done the maths,

770
01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:13,520
you realize that your chances of...

771
01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:16,960
Of getting out of this
are almost non-existent.

772
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:21,200
[heavy breathing continues]

773
01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:32,640
The cold is something
I don't have any recollection of feeling.

774
01:08:37,399 --> 01:08:38,560
It doesn't make much sense, really,

775
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:41,279
because I know that I would've been
very cold, very quickly.

776
01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:54,600
I feel as though I can recount everything
from that night,

777
01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:56,479
but the fact that I don't remember
being cold.

778
01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:01,080
I begin to question
how lucid I actually was.

779
01:09:04,640 --> 01:09:06,439
If it didn't last all the time
I thought it did.

780
01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:11,120
Maybe I fell unconscious straight away.

781
01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:17,600
I'm so sorry.

782
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:23,359
I'm so sorry, Morag.

783
01:09:27,880 --> 01:09:31,640
I... I was explicitly aware
of what I was about to lose.

784
01:09:34,439 --> 01:09:37,479
Uh, I have very vivid memories
of thinking precisely that,

785
01:09:37,560 --> 01:09:40,520
thinking I'm not gonna see...
I'm not gonna see the...

786
01:09:40,600 --> 01:09:42,720
The house I'm halfway
through building, finished,

787
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:44,680
which we'd put so much into.

788
01:09:45,760 --> 01:09:46,800
I'm not gonna see...

789
01:09:48,399 --> 01:09:50,680
[voice breaking] I'm not...
I'm not gonna...

790
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:53,040
I'm not gonna see my wife on the...

791
01:09:53,120 --> 01:09:55,080
On the day we get married, and...

792
01:09:56,440 --> 01:09:57,440
It's, uh...

793
01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:10,800
Why am I, a little boy from Cambridge,
in the blackness, about to die?

794
01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:13,080
[heavy breathing continues]

795
01:10:14,240 --> 01:10:17,000
There's nothing to hide behind, you know.
That's the moment you're going.

796
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:19,720
[birds chirping]

797
01:10:24,200 --> 01:10:26,000
What sort of person are you?

798
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:28,400
Were you scared or are you just telling
yourself that you weren't?

799
01:10:30,080 --> 01:10:31,080
Were you calm?

800
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:33,640
'Cause I'm not so sure.

801
01:10:37,240 --> 01:10:38,600
[heavy breathing continues]

802
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:44,920
My thoughts drifted away
to the damage I was gonna do.

803
01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:45,960
[children chattering]

804
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:47,800
Our hopes and dreams.

805
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:51,280
-All these plans we had for the future...
-[boy] Yeah.

806
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:54,760
...about to be dashed.

807
01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:00,200
[Morag chuckles]

808
01:11:08,240 --> 01:11:10,120
[breathing weakens]

809
01:11:12,760 --> 01:11:15,440
I... I can remember
it becoming harder to breathe.

810
01:11:17,880 --> 01:11:20,000
Harder to suck down the air that you want.

811
01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:31,920
I remember feeling it was coming.

812
01:11:37,360 --> 01:11:39,280
And then... And then nothing.

813
01:11:41,600 --> 01:11:42,880
[Chris gasps]

814
01:11:45,040 --> 01:11:47,080
[inaudible]

815
01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:51,680
[Duncan] I knew we'd got him.

816
01:11:52,800 --> 01:11:53,920
He was gonna live.

817
01:11:55,200 --> 01:11:57,760
I was just so elated.

818
01:11:58,680 --> 01:12:00,720
At that point, I didn't know
if he had any brain damage,

819
01:12:00,800 --> 01:12:02,280
I didn't know if he'd be the same Chris.

820
01:12:02,360 --> 01:12:04,000
I didn't know if he'd ever speak again,

821
01:12:04,080 --> 01:12:06,200
but I knew he was breathing. He was alive.

822
01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:09,920
And he got stronger with every breath.

823
01:12:13,960 --> 01:12:16,080
[Chris] I can remember flashing lights.

824
01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:19,880
Something wasn't quite as it should be.

825
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:28,840
It was very reassuring to see Duncan.

826
01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:33,440
He's been a bit of a father figure
to me in many ways throughout my career.

827
01:12:35,320 --> 01:12:38,160
It's very comforting
to see a friendly face.

828
01:12:48,560 --> 01:12:51,240
[Dave] I'd decided that he was
more than likely dead.

829
01:12:52,160 --> 01:12:54,600
I think I'd started to come to terms
with the fact that he was dead

830
01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:56,760
and that we'd recovered a body.

831
01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:58,040
[Craig] Camera's back...

832
01:12:58,840 --> 01:13:02,760
[Dave] I... I got into the bell.
I could see Chris sat down there.

833
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:06,800
And, um, he was definitely not dead.

834
01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:10,200
That was very confusing.

835
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:17,360
[Craig] I mean, I remember asking...

836
01:13:17,440 --> 01:13:19,000
Chris, you all right, buddy?

837
01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:21,360
And he said, "Yeah."

838
01:13:24,920 --> 01:13:26,360
[stuttering] He seemed fine.

839
01:13:30,440 --> 01:13:31,960
It was an extraordinary moment.

840
01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:39,560
A lot of people were relieved.

841
01:13:43,160 --> 01:13:44,680
Obviously, for Chris's sake...

842
01:13:48,920 --> 01:13:51,200
but also
for their own personal well-being.

843
01:13:52,280 --> 01:13:54,560
They didn't wanna be involved
in a diving fatality,

844
01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:55,720
and now they weren't.

845
01:13:59,680 --> 01:14:03,480
[Dave] I remember almost feeling
a little bit pissed off with him.

846
01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:05,240
In the same way that when you've...

847
01:14:05,320 --> 01:14:08,320
If you have a child that wanders off
when they're not meant to,

848
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:11,400
and you're frantically looking for them,
when you do find them,

849
01:14:11,560 --> 01:14:15,040
as well as the relief you've got,
you've also got a little bit of anger.

850
01:14:18,960 --> 01:14:21,080
'Cause they've put you
through something...

851
01:14:24,080 --> 01:14:25,480
that's been quite traumatic.

852
01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:34,760
[whirring]

853
01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:46,840
[Craig] That's the bell on the surface.

854
01:14:52,280 --> 01:14:54,160
[radio static]

855
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:01,320
[Dave] It wasn't until I went
and had a shower

856
01:15:01,400 --> 01:15:03,440
that I realized how exerted
I must have been.

857
01:15:03,520 --> 01:15:06,760
I remember trying to wash my hair,

858
01:15:06,840 --> 01:15:09,760
um, in the shower and my hands
were cramping up,

859
01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:12,960
and my hands were like claws.
My fingers were stuck.

860
01:15:13,040 --> 01:15:16,120
And that's when I thought,
"I've, um... I've worked hard today."

861
01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:20,120
[Craig] Down at the bottom door.

862
01:15:22,040 --> 01:15:25,520
All right. Dave, I'll come and talk
to you later. Thanks for your help.

863
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:27,320
-[Dave] Okay.
-[Craig] Yup.

864
01:15:27,400 --> 01:15:32,960
I couldn't have felt more proud
of, uh, myself and Dave that day

865
01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:35,400
for what we achieved in that bell.

866
01:15:36,280 --> 01:15:37,520
[indistinct chatter]

867
01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:42,480
[Craig] I did my job.

868
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:45,440
And I would expect nothing less,
and the divers did their jobs,

869
01:15:45,520 --> 01:15:48,480
and the bridge crew did their jobs.
Everyone did their jobs,

870
01:15:48,600 --> 01:15:50,360
so, you know, you don't pat yourself
on the back for that.

871
01:15:51,040 --> 01:15:53,800
You turned up that day
and that's what you get paid for.

872
01:15:55,040 --> 01:15:56,160
[indistinct talking]

873
01:15:57,440 --> 01:15:58,840
[Craig] Last man leaving the bell.

874
01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:04,960
[indistinct chatter]

875
01:16:06,160 --> 01:16:08,360
[Stuart] Dave and Duncs,
they'd done enough.

876
01:16:09,400 --> 01:16:12,920
It was our job to look after him
from that point on.

877
01:16:14,760 --> 01:16:18,840
I, for one, couldn't believe
we'd got away with it.

878
01:16:19,720 --> 01:16:21,880
I couldn't believe
that he was just gonna...

879
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:24,560
We're gonna warm him up,
put a tea cozy on his head,

880
01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:26,120
and he's gonna be good to go.

881
01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:28,520
That... That was incredible to me.

882
01:16:34,840 --> 01:16:36,800
I can remember,
after everything had calmed down,

883
01:16:36,880 --> 01:16:38,440
we were doing hourly checks,

884
01:16:38,520 --> 01:16:40,920
and I thought he was kind of just...

885
01:16:41,240 --> 01:16:43,800
not dozing, quite, but he was relaxing.

886
01:16:44,480 --> 01:16:47,560
And, uh... And... The only...

887
01:16:57,240 --> 01:17:01,440
[chuckles] I'll have to do that one again.
Sorry. Yeah.

888
01:17:02,480 --> 01:17:03,880
Hmm. Yeah.

889
01:17:05,960 --> 01:17:07,960
The only time I ever... [clicks tongue]

890
01:17:08,040 --> 01:17:10,440
felt serious, um...

891
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:14,360
I was just halfway
through taking his pulse,

892
01:17:17,520 --> 01:17:20,600
and he just kinda looked over at me,
he said, "Stu, do you know it's okay?"

893
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:24,360
I said, "Uh, yeah,
I know you're okay. Yeah."

894
01:17:24,440 --> 01:17:26,880
He said, "No, no, it's okay. I was just...

895
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:28,920
I was just drifting off
to sleep, you know,

896
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:32,040
I was kinda sad for a bit, but then...

897
01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:34,760
I was cold, and I got a bit numb,
but it was, like, falling asleep.

898
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:36,080
It's not that bad."

899
01:17:41,360 --> 01:17:45,720
That was the only time that, uh,
anything really got emotional for me,

900
01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:48,560
and that point was... It kinda hit home

901
01:17:48,640 --> 01:17:50,840
that he had basically...

902
01:17:52,440 --> 01:17:54,080
[exhales, sniffles]

903
01:17:58,720 --> 01:18:00,400
He decided he was gonna die.

904
01:18:02,440 --> 01:18:05,800
He's, uh... [chuckles]
trying to tell me that dying's okay.

905
01:18:05,880 --> 01:18:09,120
And that really... That really got to me.

906
01:18:29,760 --> 01:18:31,680
[machine whirring]

907
01:18:46,480 --> 01:18:49,760
How I survived
is a very good question. [laughs]

908
01:18:49,840 --> 01:18:52,120
I... I don't think
I will ever really know.

909
01:18:53,320 --> 01:18:55,320
[waves crashing]

910
01:18:56,800 --> 01:18:59,280
I always assumed that the lowering
of my body temperature

911
01:18:59,360 --> 01:19:01,920
effectively shut me down
and allowed me to survive

912
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:05,080
on what minimal oxygen
remained in my system.

913
01:19:10,360 --> 01:19:13,640
Also, I'm fairly certain
that the high levels of oxygen

914
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:17,160
which we carry, you know,
emergency breathing gas,

915
01:19:18,360 --> 01:19:21,080
saturated my tissues
effectively with oxygen

916
01:19:21,160 --> 01:19:25,400
and allowed
my organs to keep functioning

917
01:19:25,480 --> 01:19:27,240
even though I had nothing left to breathe.

918
01:19:27,320 --> 01:19:29,680
These are all theories, though.
Beyond that, um,

919
01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:31,480
I'm... I'm still waiting
for someone to... [chuckles]

920
01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:34,760
To give me the right answer. I...
I'm not sure I'll ever know.

921
01:19:36,160 --> 01:19:38,160
[seagulls cawing]

922
01:19:44,240 --> 01:19:46,760
[Morag] I received that phone call
that everyone dreads.

923
01:19:48,360 --> 01:19:50,000
Your whole world falls apart.

924
01:19:52,640 --> 01:19:54,520
Just kept picturing him

925
01:19:55,080 --> 01:19:58,080
lying there on the...
The bottom of the ocean, helpless.

926
01:19:58,160 --> 01:19:59,440
[sniffles]

927
01:19:59,520 --> 01:20:01,960
That's always, you know,
when it happens to...

928
01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:05,680
Something like that happens
to someone that you love...

929
01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:08,480
I couldn't get that image out of my head.

930
01:20:15,720 --> 01:20:19,200
It didn't matter that he was speaking
to me and telling me that he had survived.

931
01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:22,320
I needed to physically touch him
and see him.

932
01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:35,880
[Chris] It dawned on me
that we're going to be okay,

933
01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:39,240
we were going to be able
to realize those hopes and dreams,

934
01:20:39,320 --> 01:20:40,680
and live our life together.

935
01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:46,400
[applause]

936
01:20:57,520 --> 01:21:00,120
[Chris] ...there's one person in the room
in here who's definitely gonna hate this.

937
01:21:00,800 --> 01:21:02,520
He's probably one of only two men
in this room who's given me

938
01:21:02,600 --> 01:21:05,640
-a decent kiss on the lips.
-[crowd laughs]

939
01:21:28,240 --> 01:21:29,520
[inaudible]

940
01:21:35,200 --> 01:21:36,840
[breathing through respirator]

941
01:21:39,320 --> 01:21:41,840
[Craig] There's diver two
in the water at 91 meters.

942
01:21:44,320 --> 01:21:47,080
Hey, Chris. Don't fuck it up this time.

943
01:21:47,760 --> 01:21:48,880
[in squeaky voice]

944
01:21:49,840 --> 01:21:51,280
[heavy breathing continues]