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Last Breath is a 2019 British documentary film directed by Richard da Costa and Alex Parkinson. It relates the story of a serious saturation diving accident in 2012, when diver Chris Lemons had his umbilical cable severed and became trapped around 100 metres (330 ft) under the sea without heat or light, and with only the small amount of breathing gas in his backup tank.
Apr 5, 2019 · His extraordinary true story has been made into a documentary film, Last Breath. Edinburgh-born Chris, who lives near Mallaig in the Highlands, is a saturation diver.
Apr 3, 2019 · Lemons blacked out some 25 minutes after his umbilical cable, feeding oxygen, was severed while he was repairing an oil rig’s leg on the North Sea’s bed in September 2012. Alex Parkinson and ...
Apr 15, 2019 · This has now been developed into Last Breath, a feature-length documentary which uses convincing reconstructions, original footage (there was a wealth of it, captured by different devices in the ...
- Stephen Applebaum
- No Matter What Happens, You’Re Stuck
- Drifting Into Danger
- ‘There Was Nothing I Could Do’
- ‘I Was Going to Die in A Strange, Alien Environment’
- Surviving The Impossible
- Immersed in Horror
Adjusting to life in a chamber with 12 other people was strange, intimidating and frightening for Chris. No matter what happens in what is essentially a decompression tank – if you break your leg, your appendix bursts or your mother dies – you still have to face four to five days’ decompression. There’s no shortcut. There’s also no privacy. CCTV ca...
The water and weather appeared calm, in North Sea terms anyway (where it’s always pretty rough). But what they didn’t know was that 100m above them, a 35-knot wind and a 5m swell were hitting Bibby. Its normally reliable dynamic positioning (DP) device, which keeps the ship locked in place, had shut down and its backups had failed. The emergency st...
Duncan was trying desperately to drag Chris’s cord back in, but it had tightened so much that it was bending the metal frame out from inside the bell. “I was shitting myself,” he recalls. There was nothing he could do. “I could hear his umbilical cracking,” Dave continues. “It’s the noise that something makes before it breaks.” There was a bang as ...
He knew he only had about five or six minutes of gas left, and almost no chance of rescue. “I had a strange mix of emotions. I was very sad, but mostly disappointed and guilty for the ones I was leaving behind, especially Morag. I pictured her being told and was upset. At the same time, I was screaming out for Duncan to come and rescue me. There wa...
How Chris survived that long without breathing is a mystery. One theory posited by experts is selective brain cooling, which suggests that when you’re immersed in cold water for a long period your body carries out processes that allow cooled blood to enter the brain. Chris himself believes that because the bailout cylinder he had been breathing fro...
“The footage is uncomfortable, it is grim, it runs the risk of being voyeuristic, but at the same time it is an amazing opportunity,” says Richard. “We wanted the audience to experience it as it was experienced by the crew and we wanted to use it as a way of immersing them in the awful horror of Chris dying, while they watch on, helpless.” No train...
Jun 25, 2019 · A film still from 'Last Breath'. Courtesy Dogwoof. The National. 'Last Breath': The miraculous underwater survival story of Chris Lemons. Lemons was doing underwater maintenance work at an oilfield in the North Sea when disaster struck. His story is now streaming on Netflix. Stephen Applebaum.
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Underwater thriller following the story of a diver trapped on the bottom of the North Sea. At the time of the accident, Chris Lemons was relatively new to saturation diving. It was an exciting time in his life: he was engaged to be married and building a dream house in the highlands with his fiancée.
