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- [bubbling]
- 2
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- -[man 1] You got this.
- -[man 2] We have lost comms for diver two.
- 3
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- [radio static]
- 4
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- [man 2] We're losing
- one of my divers here.
- 5
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- [man 1] Come over. We have one more.
- 6
- 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:03,480
- [static stops]
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- [radio static]
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- [man 3] Where is he at now?
- 9
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- -[man 1] Drop the fourth.
- -[man 2] We're running out of time--
- 10
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- [man 1] But I can't move it.
- I can't move it.
- 11
- 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:09,400
- -[man 1] I've got this.
- -[man 3] We can't give you any slack.
- 12
- 00:02:09,479 --> 00:02:10,880
- -[man 1] Setback. Pass setback.
- -[device ringing]
- 13
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- [man 2] Hang in there, buddy.
- 14
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- -[man 1] It won't move.
- -[man 2] Bridge.
- 15
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- -You've gotta get us back over there.
- -[radio static]
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- [waves crashing]
- 17
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- -[radio static]
- -[marine control] Topaz. Topaz. Topaz.
- 18
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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.
- 21
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- [radio static]
- 22
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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?
- 26
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- -Yeah, yeah. Good, mate, yeah. Hi, Ally.
- -All right?
- 27
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- -Hey, Chris, you all right, mate?
- -[Chris] Good, thanks, yeah.
- 28
- 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:02,120
- -Yeah. Yeah, sorry. [laughs]
- -As long as you have got that.
- 29
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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?
- 33
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- Oh, it's Jimmy Kyle
- from the Black Isle. [chuckles]
- 34
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- Might have to edit this one out. [laughs]
- 35
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- So, I know I like to make out that, uh,
- life on board's pretty Spartan.
- 36
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- Uh, so what I'm about to show you, uh,
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- is obviously gonna
- dispel that, unfortunately.
- 38
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- Because behind me...
- 39
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- is a bona fide, uh, sauna.
- 40
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- Behind door number two,
- believe it or not...
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- sunbed.
- 42
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- [cow moos]
- 43
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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?
- 45
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- That is the big news, big news from home.
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- Hi, guys.
- 47
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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.
- 49
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- And it reassured us
- that we were both happy.
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- [all] ♪ We wish you a merry Christmas ♪
- 51
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- ♪ We wish you a merry Christmas ♪
- 52
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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]
- 56
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- It was a really,
- really exciting time in our life.
- 57
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- Did you get the little sign?
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- It's gorgeous.
- 59
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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?
- 62
- 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,000
- [Chris blows raspberry, laughs]
- 63
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- -Beep, beep.
- -[both laughing]
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- And I had started
- 65
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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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- 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:26,000
- 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.
- 88
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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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- 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,640
- 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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- 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,840
- 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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- 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,240
- [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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- 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:25,920
- 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.
- 119
- 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:49,200
- [man on radio] Captain Strong,
- we're six hours away from the job.
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- 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:53,200
- [grunts]
- 121
- 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,920
- [man] This is all we're currently
- suffering from aches and pains, bruising,
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- 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,160
- joint discomfort,
- skin numbness sensations.
- 123
- 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:05,520
- [clattering]
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- 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:11,120
- [indistinct chatter]
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- 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:12,920
- [Chris] Hi, boys.
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- 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:16,720
- Uh, as you can see
- there's not a huge deal of space.
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- 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:20,240
- Probably only half a foot or so
- between the bunks down here.
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- 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:22,760
- Dunc's in there, uh, getting his ready.
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- 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,400
- 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.
- 137
- 00:10:45,680 --> 00:10:49,920
- 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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- 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:57,240
- It's a real pain for me,
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- 00:10:57,320 --> 00:10:59,080
- that's why I've always
- got gashes all over me.
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- 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:04,120
- And the magic of it is, once you've done
- the full circuit, you're back to...
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- 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:07,000
- You're back to where you started
- and a cup of tea. And a cup of tea. Yeah.
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- 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,520
- -[Duncan] Mind me chocolate stash.
- -[Chris laughs]
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- 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:12,480
- That's ridiculous, Duncan,
- how much you got...
- 146
- 00:11:12,560 --> 00:11:13,600
- How much have you got in there?
- 147
- 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:16,840
- -[Duncan] Just a bar for every day.
- -[Chris] A bar for every day. [chuckles]
- 148
- 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:19,520
- I've only started just to check them out.
- 149
- 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,200
- -Yeah.
- -[Chris laughs] Glad I'm in with you.
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- 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:50,280
- Okay, lads, if everyone's ready,
- we'll go for blowdown.
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- 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:57,400
- [locks clicking]
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- 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:02,000
- [gas hissing]
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- 00:12:09,680 --> 00:12:11,240
- [hissing continues]
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- 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:19,120
- Okay, lads,
- we'll stop and check for leaks.
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- 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:20,760
- [spraying]
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- 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:26,240
- [Dave] On this particular job,
- we were working at 100 meters.
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- 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:29,440
- So, they pump into the chamber,
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- 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:33,480
- the equivalent pressure of 100 meters
- of water in heliox.
- 159
- 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:36,760
- Which is a mix of helium and oxygen.
- 160
- 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:40,720
- And then we are effectively
- at an equal pressure to the seabed.
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- 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,080
- [man on radio] That's a seal confirmed.
- 162
- 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:47,000
- I'll continue with the blowdown.
- 163
- 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:51,600
- -[static]
- -[Duncan speaking in squeaky voice]
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- 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:58,360
- As soon as you get a breath of helium gas,
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- 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,480
- you start speaking with a squeaky voice.
- 166
- 00:13:00,560 --> 00:13:02,640
- [continues speaking in squeaky voice]
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- 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:07,480
- -[man] Okay. Cheers, lads.
- -[Duncan] Yeah, mate.
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- 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:10,920
- The first 30 seconds
- is always quite humorous.
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- 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,200
- After that, the novelty wears off.
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- 00:13:13,280 --> 00:13:14,600
- [gas hissing]
- 171
- 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:18,040
- [hissing stops]
- 172
- 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:21,040
- [man] Okay, lads,
- we've reached depth. Blowdown over.
- 173
- 00:13:29,560 --> 00:13:31,440
- [man speaking indistinctly on radio]
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- 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:34,560
- [Duncan] Thank you.
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- 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:37,840
- [Dave] Sat is a very odd environment
- to live in.
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- 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,000
- There's very little privacy.
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- 00:13:45,400 --> 00:13:48,240
- Your whole world seems to shrink
- to the size of the system.
- 178
- 00:13:56,560 --> 00:13:58,680
- [Duncan] Living in sat
- is extremely intense.
- 179
- 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:02,160
- I think everybody
- copes with it differently.
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- 00:14:02,960 --> 00:14:05,600
- [Dave taking deep breaths]
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- 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:07,840
- [Dave] Most divers have got two personas.
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- 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,640
- They've got their work persona
- and their home persona.
- 183
- 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,280
- At home, I'm David, a father of three.
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- 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:18,640
- And Dave is a professional diver.
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- 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:19,880
- He, um...
- 186
- 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:22,960
- He's responsible only for the job in hand.
- 187
- 00:14:23,760 --> 00:14:26,000
- [Dave taking labored breaths]
- 188
- 00:14:31,480 --> 00:14:34,520
- [Duncan] Chris was definitely
- a little more anxious.
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- Not been sat diving long.
- 190
- 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,800
- Trying to make sure that he is, uh,
- keeping up with everybody else,
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- 00:14:44,880 --> 00:14:47,680
- that he has got all the right equipment,
- that he's not gonna embarrass himself.
- 192
- 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:54,080
- But very conscious
- that people are watching his every move.
- 193
- 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:01,000
- Quite a lot of pressure.
- 194
- 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:07,120
- He wanted to look good for everybody.
- He wanted to be a good diver.
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- 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:11,160
- The best diver.
- 196
- 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:24,760
- [Dave] Before I got into sat diving,
- 197
- 00:15:24,840 --> 00:15:26,600
- I always, kind of,
- looked out at the North Sea
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- 00:15:26,680 --> 00:15:28,400
- as the... The premiership of diving.
- 199
- 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:34,440
- 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.
- 202
- 00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:44,280
- So that... That puts you pretty much
- in the middle of the North Sea.
- 203
- 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:59,120
- The North Sea can be unpredictable,
- 204
- 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:01,120
- and the weather wasn't very good
- at the time.
- 205
- 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:05,080
- The boat was moving around a fair bit.
- 206
- 00:16:13,120 --> 00:16:14,960
- [Duncan] The North Sea is definitely
- 207
- 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,520
- one of the most dangerous
- environments in the world.
- 208
- 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:20,520
- The water temperature's four degrees
- on the seabed,
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- 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:23,360
- which is a killer.
- 210
- 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:34,280
- [Morag] I realize there's dangers
- on the job. I realized that.
- 211
- 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:41,600
- But Chris had reassured me continually
- that he would be safe.
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- 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:46,720
- That he wasn't in harm’s way.
- 213
- 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:55,040
- I thought that he was happy
- in his saturation tank.
- 214
- 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:00,560
- So, no, I didn't ever worry.
- 215
- 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:06,760
- [radio static]
- 216
- 00:17:06,839 --> 00:17:10,280
- [man] Aberdeen Control,
- Aberdeen Control. This is Topaz. Over.
- 217
- 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,359
- [marine control] Go ahead, Topaz. Over.
- 218
- 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,839
- [man] We are on live oil field.
- Block 22/14-B.
- 219
- 00:17:17,560 --> 00:17:20,359
- Holding, we have to start work
- immediately. Over and out.
- 220
- 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,599
- -[man 1] Ready?
- -[man 2] Yeah, I'm ready.
- 221
- 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:27,119
- [man 1] Okay, everything is on zero.
- 222
- 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:33,320
- One, four, five, six running.
- 223
- 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:36,040
- [man 2] Okay, that's all thrusters
- in DP mode.
- 224
- 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:50,240
- [man 1] I have two GPSs selected
- for reference systems.
- 225
- 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:51,360
- [man 2] Yeah.
- 226
- 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:58,760
- [indistinct radio chatter]
- 227
- 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:01,560
- [man 1] Okay, Captain, we are on DP now.
- 228
- 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,920
- [Craig] Okay, boys, five minutes' notice
- to getting in the bell.
- 229
- 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:24,600
- Well, the divers are my puppets,
- I'm the, uh...
- 230
- 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,200
- The conductor of a small band,
- they are, uh, my hands and my feet.
- 231
- 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,640
- And they, uh, essentially do
- what I ask them to do.
- 232
- 00:18:35,800 --> 00:18:36,960
- When the diver's in the water,
- 233
- 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,080
- I am the most important person
- on the vessel.
- 234
- 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:41,880
- And everyone will defer to me.
- 235
- 00:18:43,480 --> 00:18:45,200
- Okay, first man entering the bell.
- 236
- 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:50,240
- -[metal clanking]
- -[Duncan breathing heavily]
- 237
- 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:58,600
- [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]
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