1 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:30,280 This film contains some strong language 2 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:59,440 I've lost comms to Diver 2. 3 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:00,960 We're losing one of my divers here. 4 00:01:00,960 --> 00:01:02,320 Won't move, it won't move. 5 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:37,280 Where is he at now? 6 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:38,320 Slack to 2. 7 00:01:38,320 --> 00:01:39,880 We're running out of time here. 8 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:41,480 I can't move up, I can't move up. 9 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:08,400 Slack 2. 10 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:09,520 We can't give you any slack. 11 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:10,840 It's stuck. 12 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:12,240 Hang in there, buddy. 13 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:13,720 It won't move. 14 00:02:13,720 --> 00:02:17,440 Bridge, you've got to get us back over there. 15 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:17,880 RADIO: Topaz, Topaz, Topaz, Aberdeen Marine Control. 16 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:19,160 What's your position? Over. 17 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:24,600 Aberdeen Control, we are 64 miles northeast of you, 18 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:28,720 heading for oilfield block 22/14b. Over. 19 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:33,800 Thank you, Topaz. Update when on job. Over. 20 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:55,840 Ah. Four in. Hiya, Rob. 21 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:57,920 How are you doing, sir? How are you doing, Chris? 22 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,320 Yeah, good, mate. Yeah, hi, Ali. Chris, you all right, mate? 23 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,720 Good, thanks. Just noticed you've got that. Yeah, sorry! 24 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:04,800 It's... Yeah, Morag wanted a bit of a tour of the ship. 25 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:06,240 Good day, yeah. Good morning! 26 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:07,920 Mustard's always worth having. 27 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:11,400 Let's see if we get him... 28 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:13,440 That's Jimmy Kyle from the Black Isle. 29 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:14,960 HE LAUGHS 30 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,640 Might have to edit this one out. 31 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,960 So I know I like to make out that life on board's pretty spartan, 32 00:04:20,960 --> 00:04:24,360 so what I'm about to show you is obviously going to dispel that, 33 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,960 unfortunately, because behind me... 34 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,560 ..is a bona-fide sauna. 35 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:35,880 Behind door number two, believe it or not... 36 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:39,120 ..sunbed. 37 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:42,400 When Christopher went offshore, 38 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,240 we enjoyed sending videos to one another. 39 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,320 We've got a new calf on the croft today, isn't it beautiful? 40 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:51,760 That's the big news, big news from home. 41 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:53,880 Hi, guys. 42 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:55,800 It gave us a little part of each other, 43 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:59,200 we could share in each other's lives while we were apart... 44 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,640 ..and it reassured us that we were both happy. 45 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:06,120 ALL: # We wish you a merry Christmas 46 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:08,400 # We wish you a merry Christmas 47 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:10,920 # We wish you a merry Christmas 48 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:13,400 # And a happy New Year! # 49 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:15,280 Merry Christmas, Lemons! 50 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:18,320 SHE GIGGLES 51 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,200 It was a really, really exciting time in our life. 52 00:05:21,200 --> 00:05:23,600 Did you get the little sign? 53 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:25,200 It's gorgeous. 54 00:05:25,200 --> 00:05:29,640 We were due to be married in April of that year. 55 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,560 We were building a house at that time too. 56 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:34,840 Enjoying that? 57 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:36,400 LAUGHTER 58 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,120 Beep-beep! 59 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,760 And I had started a new job as the head teacher 60 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:44,120 of the local primary school. 61 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:49,160 We had so many plans for the future. 62 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:53,520 It was wonderful. 63 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:02,960 OK, I think we're running. Hi, Morag. 64 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:04,680 Six lads sleeping in there, 65 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:06,960 but it looks like the lights are all off in there. 66 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,800 And what you can actually see on the outside there is the little camera 67 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:12,280 they use to monitor us, and that's pointing into the toilet, 68 00:06:12,280 --> 00:06:14,200 so they can watch us have a shower. 69 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,160 Think what you will. 70 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,800 I had a good understanding of Christopher's work. 71 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,920 All of these tunnels, 72 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:25,760 gasses and depths. 73 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,080 Christopher often described it as... 74 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:33,280 ..going into space but under water. 75 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:20,600 Nice to see you. Yes. See you in 28 days. 76 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:22,480 Yeah, thanks, mate. Yeah. 77 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:25,080 So this is the moment of truth when we get on board, 78 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:28,560 when we check the board to see who we're going to be in sat with, 79 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,120 cos that can pretty much make or break your trip. 80 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:34,000 That's the two other people you're going to be spending the next month 81 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:35,480 locked in a tin can with, so... 82 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:37,880 And see if you can see at the same time as me. 83 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:43,200 Yep, Team 3, Chris Lemons, Dave Yuasa, Duncan Allcock. OK. 84 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:46,440 David Yuasa interview. 85 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:48,480 B call mark. 86 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:50,280 Hi, Dave. Hi. 87 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,240 There's some people that you get on great with, 88 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:56,280 other people that you don't get on well with, 89 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:57,880 and no-one wants to be in with a knob. 90 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:01,560 Duncan, I knew very well. 91 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,640 I'd worked with him over the years quite a few times. 92 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,480 He's got a very good reputation on the boat. 93 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,880 You do have to be a certain breed to work in an RV - 94 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:18,000 slightly unhinged, erm, a little bit abnormal. 95 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,720 You don't have problems, they have solutions. 96 00:08:21,800 --> 00:08:25,600 Certainly the guys that I've worked with... 97 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:28,040 ..are one of a kind. 98 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:35,880 Dave's a very cool guy. 99 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:39,400 He doesn't get stressed, he doesn't get anxious. 100 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,240 Very, very logical, 101 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,520 but keeps himself to himself. 102 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:50,040 I'm not famed at work for being a particularly emotional person. 103 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,600 I think a Vulcan is how a few people have described me. 104 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:01,200 Chris was relatively new, I'd not dived with him. 105 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:04,080 But I think he'd dived with Duncan quite a few times 106 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,320 and Duncan was his sat daddy. 107 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:11,520 That sounds weird now I've said it out loud! 108 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:13,520 I was there for Chris's first sat 109 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,920 and then we did four sats in a row after that together. 110 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:21,280 The bond you get with that is massive. 111 00:09:21,280 --> 00:09:23,840 I got to know him very, very well. 112 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,040 He was a very amiable guy. 113 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,880 I had a little word with Duncan, said, "What is this Chris guy like?" 114 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,480 And I got the thumbs up and I was happy to go in with him. 115 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:49,400 RADIO: Staff control, we're six hours away from the job. 116 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,880 This is Ivor, he's suffering from aches and pains, 117 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,720 bruising, joint discomfort, skin numbness sensations. 118 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,320 All right, boys? 119 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,960 As you can see, there's not a huge deal of space. 120 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,360 Probably only half a foot or so between the bunks down here. 121 00:10:20,360 --> 00:10:23,040 Dunc's in there getting his ready. 122 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:24,520 And then this is the living end. 123 00:10:24,520 --> 00:10:28,360 Got sort of benches and a bit of a table. 124 00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:30,480 One of very few portholes we've got, 125 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,040 so that's pretty much the only sight of the outside world 126 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:34,560 that you'd have. 127 00:10:34,560 --> 00:10:36,480 So I've got crawl through these little tunnels 128 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:38,360 to get from place to place. 129 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:41,760 And down this way is what we call the wet pot, 130 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:45,000 so I'll just push that door. 131 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:48,040 Basically, the toilet and the shower room, 132 00:10:48,040 --> 00:10:50,440 so various ablutions and that kind of thing. 133 00:10:50,440 --> 00:10:52,120 Yeah, if I stand my full height, 134 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,520 there's absolutely everything I can knock my head on, 135 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,440 it's a real pain for me as well. 136 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,600 I've always got gashes all over me. 137 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:01,840 And the magic of it is... 138 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,280 ..once you've done the full circuit, you're back to... 139 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:06,720 You're back to where you started and a cup of tea. Cup of tea. 140 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:08,920 And a cup of tea, yeah. Mind my chocolate stash. 141 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:11,120 CHRIS LAUGHS 142 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,880 That's ridiculous, Duncan. How much have you got in there? 143 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,240 Just a bar for every day. A bar for every day! 144 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,120 I've only started just to check them out, yeah. 145 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:22,280 I'm glad I'm in with you. 146 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:50,400 OK, lads, if everyone's ready, we'll go for blowdown. 147 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:19,640 OK, lads, we'll stop and check for leaks. 148 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,320 SPRAYING 149 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:27,760 On this particular job, we were working at 100 metres, 150 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:31,280 so they pump into the chamber the equivalent pressure 151 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:33,760 of 100 metres of water in heliox, 152 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:37,120 which is a mix of helium and oxygen, 153 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,360 and then we are effectively at an equal pressure to the seabed. 154 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:45,360 That's the seal confirmed. 155 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,120 I'll continue with the blowdown. 156 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,680 HIGH-PITCHED VOICE: 157 00:12:54,680 --> 00:12:58,680 As soon as you get a breath of helium gas, 158 00:12:58,680 --> 00:13:00,880 you start speaking with a squeaky voice. 159 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:07,720 OK, cheers. 160 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:11,160 The first 30 seconds is always quite humorous. 161 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,720 After that, the novelty wears off. 162 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,280 OK, lads, we've reached depth. Blowdown over. 163 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:34,120 RADIO CHATTER 164 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:38,320 Sat is a very odd environment to live in. 165 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:43,120 There's very little privacy. 166 00:13:45,280 --> 00:13:48,280 Your whole world seems to shrink to the size of the system. 167 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:00,600 Living in sat is extremely intense. 168 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:03,600 I think everybody copes with it differently. 169 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:08,840 Most divers have got two personas. 170 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,320 They've got their work persona and their home persona. 171 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:15,840 At home, I'm David, a father of three. 172 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,840 And Dave is a professional diver. 173 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,920 He, erm... 174 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:22,920 He's responsible only for the job in hand. 175 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:34,680 Chris was definitely a little more anxious. 176 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:40,440 Not been sat diving long. 177 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:44,800 Trying to make that he's keeping up with everybody else, 178 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:46,680 that he has got all the right equipment, 179 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:50,120 that he's not going to embarrass himself, 180 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:54,240 but very conscious that people are watching his every move. 181 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:01,400 Quite a lot of pressure. 182 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:05,160 He wanted to look good for everybody. 183 00:15:05,160 --> 00:15:07,400 He wanted to be a good diver. 184 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:11,560 The best diver. 185 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:24,760 Before I got into sat diving, 186 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:29,440 I always kind of looked at the North Sea as the premiership of diving. 187 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:32,840 There's a lot of DSVs there, 188 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:35,440 there's a lot of diving going on there. 189 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,360 And this particular job, the field we were working at 190 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:41,760 was about 12 hours' steam away from Aberdeen, 191 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:44,600 so that puts you pretty much in the middle of the North Sea. 192 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:59,280 The North Sea can be unpredictable 193 00:15:59,280 --> 00:16:01,640 and the weather wasn't very good at the time. 194 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:05,040 The boat was moving around a fair bit. 195 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,120 The North Sea is definitely one of the most dangerous environments 196 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:17,920 in the world. 197 00:16:17,920 --> 00:16:21,840 The water temperature is four degrees on the seabed... 198 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:23,560 ..which is a killer. 199 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:35,240 MORAG: I realised there's dangers in the job, I realised that. 200 00:16:36,520 --> 00:16:41,480 But Chris would reassure me continually that he would be safe. 201 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:46,160 That he wasn't in harm's way. 202 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:55,000 I thought that he was happy in his saturation tank. 203 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:00,600 So, no, I didn't ever worry. 204 00:17:06,880 --> 00:17:08,800 RADIO: Aberdeen Control, Aberdeen Control, 205 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:10,400 this is Topaz. Over. 206 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,480 RADIO: Go ahead, Topaz. Over. 207 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:17,840 We are on oilfield block 22/14b. 208 00:17:17,840 --> 00:17:20,520 Holding to start work immediately, over and out. 209 00:17:22,840 --> 00:17:25,360 Ready? Yeah, I'm ready. 210 00:17:25,360 --> 00:17:27,360 OK. Everything is on zero. 211 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:34,120 One, four, five, six running, OK? 212 00:17:34,120 --> 00:17:35,920 That's all thrusters in DP mode. 213 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:50,920 You have two GPSs selected for the reference systems. Yep. 214 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,640 RADIO CHATTER 215 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:01,640 OK, Captain, we are on DP now. 216 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,040 OK, boys, five minutes' notice to getting in the bell. 217 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:23,520 Well, the divers are my puppets, 218 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:26,320 I'm the conductor of a small band. 219 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:29,240 They are my hands and my feet... 220 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,240 ..and they essentially do what I ask them to do. 221 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:38,080 When the divers are in the water, 222 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:40,320 I am the most important person on the vessel, 223 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:41,840 and everyone will defer to me. 224 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:47,600 OK, first man entering the bell. 225 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,120 Duncan was the bellman, he wouldn't be diving that night. 226 00:18:59,120 --> 00:19:02,040 He'd be in the bell, looking after the divers. 227 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:06,840 Dave Yuasa was Diver 1, 228 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:08,720 and Chris Lemons was Diver 2. 229 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:13,920 Bridge, that's bell off the system at 20.13. 230 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:16,080 20.13. 231 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:22,320 OK, boys, taking you down now. 232 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,240 Bridge, that's bell left surface at 20.21. 233 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,800 Thank you, coming through now. 234 00:20:13,960 --> 00:20:16,160 Reached working depths of 90 meters. 235 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:26,960 When you're lifting the helmet onto the diver's head, 236 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:30,640 you look into their eyes, you can then see if the diver's happy 237 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:32,680 or frightened out of his wits, 238 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,320 because you can see more white than eyes. 239 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,960 At no point that evening was Chris anxious. 240 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,120 He was raring to go. 241 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,320 He wanted to prove that he was as good as everybody else. 242 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:30,600 Got something, mate. 243 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,200 Press the leaks, Chris. 244 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:39,520 That's Diver 2 in the water at 20... 245 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:02,960 That's you on onboard graphs, Chris. 246 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,320 Duncan, Diver 2's umbilical. 247 00:22:18,360 --> 00:22:21,280 When the diver is out of the barrel, he is completely reliant 248 00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:22,520 on his umbilical. 249 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:27,280 It gives him his hot water which he needs to keep him warm. 250 00:22:31,800 --> 00:22:33,080 Gives him gas to breathe 251 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,800 and also lighting and communication with the surface. 252 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:40,760 It is literally your lifeline. 253 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:52,560 Diver 2, that's you clear to drop off the bell. 254 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:04,240 Dropping off the bell is one of my favourite parts of diving. 255 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,520 I love the feeling of weightlessness. 256 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,240 You're effectively flying down to the seabed. 257 00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,160 If your visibility's bad, 258 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,320 you really don't know what you're dropping into... 259 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,000 ..or when you're going to be landing. 260 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:59,200 It's a dark and confusing place to be on the seabed. 261 00:24:00,880 --> 00:24:02,600 It can be extremely easy to get lost. 262 00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:11,200 Diver 2, the job should be 30 metres to your northwest. 263 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,320 The umbilical is your physical tether to the boat. 264 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,080 And if you ever need to get back to the bell, 265 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:29,760 you will follow your umbilical. 266 00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,360 That's your route back to safety. 267 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:41,240 In the dark, it's almost harder to get to the job than to do the job. 268 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:45,120 The seabed plays tricks on you. 269 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:55,240 The first ten minutes is quite a stressful time. 270 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,480 I notice it in their breathing. 271 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:19,240 Bridge, both divers on the job at 20.49. 272 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:27,760 The structure we're working on is called a manifold. 273 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,400 Inside there, you've got a number of wells. 274 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:42,080 The oil will come up out of the ground 275 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,800 and from there it gets piped off to a platform. 276 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:50,760 The job in hand was going to be to remove a piece of pipework... 277 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,480 ..and we were going to float in a new piece into its place. 278 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,080 When you're working with divers, you are almost reaching 279 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:09,640 through the screen and turning the knobs for them. 280 00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:12,800 You do get emotionally involved with them. 281 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:16,280 You feel their successes and failures in the water. 282 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,280 Then, basically, you see your A and B? 283 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:23,320 We're opening and closing them in a sequence to do a pressure test. 284 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,320 Once you've got your divers on the job, 285 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,160 as bellman you can relax a bit more. 286 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,760 See what I've got in me sandwiches for half-time. 287 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,320 There's never a day I go to work and I don't enjoy it. 288 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,200 My first inspirations for diving... 289 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:08,760 ..were definitely from watching Jacques Cousteau on the TV... 290 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,560 ..and thinking, "That is exactly what I would like to do." 291 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,680 Visiting coral reefs. 292 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,280 Swimming along with all the animals. 293 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,000 It just looked absolutely superb. 294 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:32,240 It was a dream for me to be a diver and... 295 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,160 ..go under the sea. 296 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,560 And, er, Dave, you keep working. All right. Go ahead. Shut it. 297 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,680 Christopher came to diving a little bit later in life. 298 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,360 He was looking for direction. 299 00:27:52,360 --> 00:27:54,880 So we're reading no leaks. 300 00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:59,480 Diving was something that was extremely passionate about. 301 00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,320 I would never have considered asking Christopher to take 302 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,440 a different career path. Never. 303 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,360 That's what he wanted to do. 304 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:12,320 That's what he was passionate about. 305 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,080 If I was as passionate about a job like that as Christopher was, 306 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:18,360 then I wouldn't want anyone to stop me, 307 00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:20,480 so I definitely wouldn't stop him. 308 00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,600 That night the weather was not good. 309 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,080 There's an 18-foot swell, 35 knots of wind. 310 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:40,520 We were on the limits of diving. 311 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:43,520 But it wasn't undiveable. 312 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:56,040 Weather was rough but the North Sea - nothing special. 313 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:00,000 It was perfectly safe... 314 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:03,360 ..if you can call this job safe. 315 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,560 It's not. Come on, it's not a safe job, yeah, so... 316 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,760 I was in charge for controlling DP computer. 317 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,400 Keeping vessel in an exact position. 318 00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,960 So divers can be safe in the water. 319 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,200 At this moment, vessel will steady. 320 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:45,440 And then it started. 321 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:49,800 ALARM BLARES 322 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,440 I saw alarm which I never seen before. 323 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:03,400 Immediately after this alarm, more faults coming one by one. 324 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:10,520 We have really big problem because we are losing control of the vessel. 325 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:13,920 We are losing position. 326 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:24,120 The bridge gave me an amber light. 327 00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,960 Its suddenness and the immediacy of his voice told me 328 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,720 that this wasn't a normal amber light. 329 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,560 Leave everything there. Leave everything there, Chris. 330 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,360 So I wanted my divers back on this bell as quickly as possible. 331 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,280 Get out of the structure, boys. 332 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:54,040 Go for the bell, Diver 1. Diver 2, come up when you can. 333 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,680 Stand by to come on, Diver 1 and Diver 2. 334 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:04,880 Roger that. No problem. 335 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,080 In a series of seconds, we had a red light. 336 00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,320 I have never had a red light. 337 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:19,960 The bridge had lost control of the vessel and its navigational system, 338 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,440 so it will drift with the weather and as soon 339 00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:25,400 as we got to that stage, it was a sailboat. 340 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,120 I was surprised at how quickly the ship moved. 341 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,040 It rapidly picked up speed. 342 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,600 Because we had no control over the ship, 343 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:41,880 we had no control of what was happening on the bottom. 344 00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:49,360 Divers were still connected to the bell 345 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,680 and bell connected to the vessel, 346 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,120 so basically we can drag the diver. 347 00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:01,840 It's the worst scenario which DP on diving support vessel can expect. 348 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,120 Go back underneath the bell. 349 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,080 When we came out of the structure, I was expecting the bell 350 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,000 to be basically in front of me over here. 351 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,880 I could tell from the root of my umbilical that in fact it was now 352 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:20,720 behind me and the manifold itself was in between me and the bell. 353 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,960 They had to climb their umbilicals up the side of the structure, 354 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,120 traverse across the top and climb their umbilicals back to the bell 355 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:36,600 for their safe haven. 356 00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,280 But the structure was the obstacle that they had to clear. 357 00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,600 Climb up onto the structure, boys. 358 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,520 When I was nearly at the top, I noticed that Chris didn't seem 359 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,280 to be going any further. 360 00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,840 I could tell something was wrong. 361 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,040 Chris had a loop of umbilical wrapped around the structure. 362 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:09,680 He was trapped. 363 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:19,080 It started to get tighter and tighter. 364 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,680 I've never seen umbilical this tight. 365 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:28,400 Chris could see the tension in it. 366 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,080 He was asking for slack out of the bell. He couldn't get the slack 367 00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,120 out of the bell because the ship kept moving away. 368 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,440 Chris, we cannot give you any slack. 369 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:51,520 We've got an enormous ship, 120 metres long by 20 metres wide, 370 00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,240 being pushed by 35 knots of wind... 371 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:57,440 ..and Chris was our anchor on the other end. 372 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,080 I didn't see a scenario where he was going to get out of this. 373 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,560 Chris's umbilical went so tight that he actually started 374 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:17,560 pulling his stainless-steel umbilical rack off the wall. 375 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:21,200 I was shitting myself. 376 00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,080 I was literally waiting for the inevitable - just to all go 377 00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:27,440 through the hole in the floor - 378 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,440 and if I got between it and the hole, I would be going out with it. 379 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,640 Chris, you've got to clear that umbilical yourself. 380 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,280 I'm trying to make my way back to Chris to help him. 381 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,680 We're maybe less than two metres apart. 382 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,200 The visibility's good enough that we can look 383 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:00,920 into each other's faces. 384 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,440 I can see that he's in trouble. 385 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,320 But that's now me at the end of my umbilical... 386 00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:16,840 ..and I can't get to him. 387 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,680 His umbilical is getting thinner. 388 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:24,760 I can hear it creaking. 389 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:26,200 HIGH-PITCHED CREAKING 390 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,800 It's the noise that something makes before it breaks. 391 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:38,640 Trying to move. 392 00:35:42,080 --> 00:35:43,600 Last comm to Diver 2. 393 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,000 As I was getting pulled away from Chris, it was almost 394 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:55,480 like watching a film. 395 00:35:57,720 --> 00:35:59,880 And that was the last I saw of him. 396 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:04,760 METALLIC RIPPING 397 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,640 And I could hear his umbilical ripping... 398 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:12,960 ..as the strands in the umbilical broke one by one. 399 00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,040 Bridge, I've lost all eyes on the job. 400 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,480 There was nothing I could do now to help Chris. 401 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,760 There was no way of getting back to him at that point. 402 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,840 I turn around and start climbing back to the bell. 403 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,920 There's a lot of resistance. 404 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,920 It felt like I was climbing back through a river. 405 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,000 I don't think I was thinking too hard 406 00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,920 about the tragedy that was unfolding. 407 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:19,920 At that point my priority was to get back to the bell 408 00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:21,640 and look after my safety. 409 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,000 I'm worried that maybe I'm going to get pulled 410 00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:40,800 into another structure down there. 411 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:45,400 And I knew that if I got caught up in one of them, 412 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:48,040 it would have made a very, very bad situation a lot worse. 413 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:20,440 I was hoping I was pulling Chris in but, in my heart of hearts, 414 00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:21,600 I knew I wasn't. 415 00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:26,080 Erm...I knew there was nothing on the end. 416 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,040 Hot water hose came in first. 417 00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:40,960 Broken and tattered at the end. 418 00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,640 And I had another couple of wraps of umbilical to pull in 419 00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,640 before a broken end of his gas hose came in. 420 00:38:51,880 --> 00:38:53,360 WHOOSHING 421 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:02,400 Now that is making quite an immense noise. 422 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:03,520 WHOOSHING CONTINUES 423 00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:12,320 I put my hand on the regulator to turn it off. 424 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:23,560 You'd never ever turn a diver's gas off when he's in the water. 425 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,680 It's tantamount to killing him. 426 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:45,600 I did feel as though I was letting Chris down. 427 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,720 That was the end of his lifeline to the bell. 428 00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,000 I, erm, I could've cried at that point. 429 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:00,440 I didn't know whether to be sick, cry, whatever. 430 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,040 I just shouted, "I've lost my diver! I've lost my diver!" 431 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,520 And, er, I didn't know what was happening to Dave, 432 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,400 so I had to be sensible and pull myself back together. 433 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:27,720 I got back onto the stage underneath the bell 434 00:40:27,720 --> 00:40:29,720 and I waited there. 435 00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:32,880 That's when I had a little bit more time to think 436 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,200 about what had happened and what was going to happen. 437 00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:45,200 In air diving, you've always got the option of being able to swim up 438 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,920 to the surface, but in sat diving, the only place you can go, 439 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:50,560 literally the only place you can go... 440 00:40:51,720 --> 00:40:52,920 ..is the bell. 441 00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,800 Normally you're connected to the bell by your umbilical, 442 00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:00,520 but he's got no umbilical. 443 00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:02,920 The bell isn't anywhere near him. 444 00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,440 He's got no options at all. 445 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,160 I knew he was out there on his own 446 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:16,440 and all he had was his two bail-out bottles. 447 00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:21,640 If we lost our main supply in an emergency, we would have enough gas 448 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,400 in the bottle on our back to get back to the bell. 449 00:41:26,720 --> 00:41:30,280 It's not designed to keep you on the seabed for any length of time. 450 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:35,680 There's no other gas he can get to. 451 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,120 It's limited to what's in his bail-out bottles. 452 00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:43,560 And they're not that big. 453 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,720 It is literally five minutes. 454 00:41:59,240 --> 00:42:02,240 We had a time-critical window to get back and recover Chris. 455 00:42:03,920 --> 00:42:05,600 So I got everybody up. 456 00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,280 We need every mind focused in case we miss anything. 457 00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:32,160 I was in the next team that was supposed to go diving. 458 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,400 And the life support supervisor came on the comms quite serious 459 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,560 and he said, "Stuart, I've got a problem." 460 00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,680 I said, "Well, does that make it my problem or is it just your problem?" 461 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:46,160 And he came back with, "We've left a diver on the manifold. 462 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,360 "We're going to set in the medical gear. 463 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,760 "The other diver medic, just go and get ready." 464 00:42:55,760 --> 00:42:59,160 There's always several diver medics in saturation. 465 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:03,240 You have to have one in each team. 466 00:43:03,240 --> 00:43:05,880 Usually it's... It's cuts, it's grazes. 467 00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,720 I was scared because this was something 468 00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:17,040 that was so out of a normal working routine. 469 00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:22,120 You don't want to have to be involved in something like that. 470 00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,760 It's not going to end well. 471 00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,720 The situation was desperate. 472 00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:38,560 I mean, we're still out of control, drifting away from Chris. 473 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:45,080 The computers to control the dynamic positioning weren't operational. 474 00:43:45,080 --> 00:43:48,200 They were redundant, all three of them. 475 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,120 The computer that was running the DP... 476 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,200 ..had failed. 477 00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:55,600 The backup, which ghosts it all the time... 478 00:43:55,600 --> 00:43:56,840 ALARMS BEEP 479 00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:57,920 ..had failed. 480 00:43:59,920 --> 00:44:02,040 And the master computer had failed as well. 481 00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,800 So you have a situation where the impossible has happened. 482 00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,360 The vessel could not be controlled using the computers. 483 00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,680 WAVES CRASH 484 00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,680 So we are just drifting. 485 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:24,160 We have to try to... 486 00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:25,520 ..to get back control. 487 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,360 Captain decides to take computer out of the loop 488 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,760 and use fully manual system. 489 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,800 This system is designed to use in the harbour, 490 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:44,520 when you don't have waves, wind is not too much. 491 00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:48,320 The bridge crew had to learn how to control the ship with, er... 492 00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:49,680 ..four thruster handles. 493 00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,880 Problem is that they are installed on two consoles. 494 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:55,760 One man doesn't have four hands. 495 00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,200 No-one ever anticipated having to do this. 496 00:45:00,200 --> 00:45:04,240 I never saw captain and chief officer doing this before. 497 00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:13,800 Sometimes it was going very well. 498 00:45:14,840 --> 00:45:18,160 And then was coming one big wave. 499 00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:19,200 WAVES CRASH 500 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:22,680 It was changing our heading again. 501 00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,960 OVER RADIO: Bridge, you've got to get us back over there. 502 00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:33,200 They want us to be there quickly, but we are doing what we can do. 503 00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:38,560 ENGINES RAMP UP 504 00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:44,680 In saturation, you start to get a bit of a sixth sense 505 00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,800 for your particular vessel - the sounds it makes. 506 00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:51,160 The engines were thrusting really heavily. 507 00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:54,240 ENGINES RAMP UP FURTHER 508 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:03,440 The boat was moving around in quite an erratic way. 509 00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:05,000 It was moving from side to side. 510 00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,800 That was quite a rough ride on the bow. 511 00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:11,320 HE BREATHES HEAVILY 512 00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,520 I was constantly trying to calm myself down. 513 00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:21,480 I knew Chris, I knew Morag. 514 00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:23,200 I was wondering... 515 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:26,320 ..how I were going to explain it to her that... 516 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:31,600 ..we went on a dive and he never came back. 517 00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:33,960 Um... 518 00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,720 Yeah, I was struggling to contain myself. 519 00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:50,400 WAVES CRASH 520 00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,280 Even though I could work out that he's run out of gas, 521 00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,720 I had to believe that Chris is still alive and recoverable. 522 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:08,640 First we had to find him. 523 00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:19,960 And the ROV was the only tool I had at the time that was functioning. 524 00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,000 ROV, can you try and find my diver, please? 525 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:30,880 The ROV can swim in the water maybe 150, 200 metres 526 00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,640 away from the ship without too much problem. 527 00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,640 So we headed to the structure. 528 00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:47,800 It was the most logical place to find Chris. 529 00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,120 RADIO CHATTER 530 00:47:54,240 --> 00:47:55,840 But we didn't know whether or not 531 00:47:55,840 --> 00:47:59,440 Chris was on top of the structure or beside it, on the seabed below. 532 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:23,760 It was very long feeling when this ROV was flying, flying, flying. 533 00:48:28,800 --> 00:48:31,400 It was explained to me that it was an idea 534 00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,800 to give Chris some sign that we are coming back. 535 00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:41,800 So he can find extra energy, power to stay alive. 536 00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:03,520 It was getting closer and closer, 537 00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:07,200 and I remember staring at the ROV screen, black and white, 538 00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:09,680 asking, "Can anyone see anything?" 539 00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,520 We willed that structure to appear. 540 00:49:58,160 --> 00:49:59,640 Then...it appeared. 541 00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:56,080 The ROV technician said, "Craig, he's all right." 542 00:50:57,400 --> 00:50:58,920 I said, "How do you know that?" 543 00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,160 He says, "Well, he's waving at us." 544 00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:21,280 Before we arrived with ROV... 545 00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,000 ..I was sure that we'd recover him. 546 00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,240 After this, I didn't know. 547 00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:35,920 You have to remember that that's not just some person. 548 00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:40,080 That's the human who you know, who was sitting next to you... 549 00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:45,840 ..passing in the corridors. 550 00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,160 One hand for the ship at all times. 551 00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:52,360 There we go - health and safety. 552 00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:55,440 He was coming to the bridge sometimes. 553 00:51:55,440 --> 00:51:56,520 Hi, Chris, how are you? 554 00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:59,120 Very well, thanks, how are you? Oh, I'm fine, thanks. 555 00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:03,680 Now you can see him... 556 00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:06,600 ..absolutely alone. 557 00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:20,920 A lot of people were shocked at the image, 558 00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:25,720 but I took a massive boost out of that. One, he was on top 559 00:52:25,720 --> 00:52:29,360 of the structure, which is crucial for his recovery. 560 00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,160 And he was twitching. 561 00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:41,680 He was still alive. 562 00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:02,240 We were still some distance away from where we needed to be. 563 00:53:05,320 --> 00:53:08,080 We still didn't have DP control of the vessel. 564 00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:11,760 We were moving back to the structure manually... 565 00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:14,400 ..which was very difficult. 566 00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,000 The ship didn't seem to be making the progress as quickly 567 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:23,120 as we thought, and everything was slowing down in time. 568 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:38,600 Slowly but surely, the twitching... 569 00:53:38,600 --> 00:53:39,640 ..it stopped. 570 00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:50,320 In my mind's eye, that was a final phase for Chris. 571 00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:02,400 Some couldn't face the reality of it. 572 00:54:02,400 --> 00:54:05,200 They didn't want to be involved in a situation that would... 573 00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:06,680 ..would be a very dark time. 574 00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:13,760 I think all those thoughts were starting to run 575 00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:15,880 through people's minds - what happens next? 576 00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:21,320 After 25 minutes... 577 00:54:22,680 --> 00:54:26,720 ..we couldn't really find anything... 578 00:54:26,720 --> 00:54:27,760 ..to grasp. 579 00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:34,440 We were sure that it was going to be a body recovery. 580 00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:46,360 It was odd, being on the bell, thinking about what had happened. 581 00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:52,120 I don't remember being particularly upset about Chris. 582 00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:53,480 Shit happens. He was... 583 00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:54,840 He wasn't my best mate. 584 00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:56,840 He wasn't one of my kids. 585 00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,160 It was a diving job and it had gone wrong. 586 00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:14,400 I started praying as hard as I could. 587 00:55:14,400 --> 00:55:17,080 I'm not a religious person at all, but... 588 00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:20,440 ..in moments like that... 589 00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:28,800 But at no point did I lower myself to think that we weren't 590 00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:30,600 going to get him back. 591 00:55:30,600 --> 00:55:32,600 Definitely not. 592 00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:36,360 There was no way where... 593 00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:42,240 ..I was going to go home and explain to Morag that Chris 594 00:55:42,240 --> 00:55:43,280 wasn't coming back. 595 00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:54,360 We try everything to get DP system back online. 596 00:55:55,760 --> 00:55:58,360 We never had first options and last options. 597 00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:00,880 We never had checklists - what to do 598 00:56:00,880 --> 00:56:03,880 step by step in case of problems like this. 599 00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:09,600 It was more like a brainstorm and trying everything what we can try. 600 00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:14,720 One of the last options was to do a hard reset. 601 00:56:25,760 --> 00:56:27,560 There was nothing else what we can do. 602 00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:31,400 And we wait. 603 00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:41,200 We've got to get a good card soon. 604 00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:48,080 You know, we pulled all the bad cards out, we've got to start 605 00:56:48,080 --> 00:56:49,240 getting some luck now. 606 00:57:05,760 --> 00:57:08,520 Lucky for us, the system gets back online. 607 00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:11,840 Oh, it was amazing! Good news. 608 00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:18,160 It was a massive relief for me and everyone on the bridge. 609 00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:27,000 As soon as DP was back online and we put the vessel in auto mode, 610 00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:28,920 we can move straight back to Chris. 611 00:57:31,840 --> 00:57:33,440 But maybe we are too late. 612 00:57:49,720 --> 00:57:51,480 Now we were making real progress. 613 00:57:53,160 --> 00:57:54,920 We were getting closer and closer. 614 00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,400 My adrenaline's still flowing. 615 00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:02,080 I want to get it done. 616 00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:07,400 I kept asking, are we nearly there yet? 617 00:58:09,840 --> 00:58:11,160 Dave was keen to go. 618 00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:13,640 I remember holding him back. 619 00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:15,720 Duncan, take up all of Dave's slack. 620 00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:21,680 It's like having a dog on a leash. 621 00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:23,160 Until I give him some slack, 622 00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:24,240 he can't go anywhere. 623 00:58:29,680 --> 00:58:31,640 Craig was telling me the distance. 624 00:58:32,840 --> 00:58:34,920 You've got 50 metres to run. 625 00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:40,440 30 metres to run. 626 00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:46,240 20 metres to run. 627 00:58:54,960 --> 00:58:56,680 I could see the lights of the ROV. 628 00:59:00,760 --> 00:59:01,800 I could see Chris. 629 00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:30,160 OK, Dave, you're through to go. 630 01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:02,600 I wasn't surprised by what I saw... 631 01:00:10,720 --> 01:00:12,880 ..a dead guy on the roof of the manifold. 632 01:00:32,680 --> 01:00:36,120 I knew that it was going to be hard to get back to the bell. 633 01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:38,320 The dead weight of Chris was very heavy. 634 01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:41,400 The boat was moving up and down. 635 01:00:43,600 --> 01:00:46,160 But I'm there to do my job and do what I'm told to do. 636 01:00:54,360 --> 01:00:56,480 I wasn't thinking, "This is Chris Lemons. 637 01:01:01,600 --> 01:01:04,240 "This is the guy who's building a house. 638 01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:12,400 "This is the guy who's engaged to be married." 639 01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:24,120 He's a thing that needs to be taken from one place to another. 640 01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:25,640 I tried not to think Chris was dead. 641 01:02:30,120 --> 01:02:33,520 Possibly, deep down, I had a thought he might have been. 642 01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:00,800 I gave him two deep breaths. 643 01:03:06,960 --> 01:03:12,160 I am just hoping with everything I've got that I can bring him round, 644 01:03:12,160 --> 01:03:14,200 that I am going to make him breathe again. 645 01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:53,720 It's very hard to communicate to people... 646 01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:56,920 ..quite what I went through and what I felt. 647 01:03:56,920 --> 01:03:59,920 It's a time that I reflect on quite a lot. 648 01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:06,360 I often try and put myself back in that position... 649 01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:09,920 ..to jog my own memory or to try and recreate what happened 650 01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:11,680 because I have the same questions. 651 01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:13,040 Thanks very much. Cheers. 652 01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:18,560 TALKING OVER RADIO 653 01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:35,640 And then there was instant silence. 654 01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:02,760 It's very disorientating when it's so, so dark. 655 01:05:11,200 --> 01:05:13,960 It's the most absolute blackness I think I've ever seen. 656 01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:24,800 All my efforts at that point were focused on finding my structure, 657 01:05:24,800 --> 01:05:26,720 getting to the top. 658 01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:29,080 That was to make it easier for them to rescue me. 659 01:05:33,800 --> 01:05:35,440 But I didn't know where I was. 660 01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:38,280 I couldn't see anything at all. 661 01:05:42,320 --> 01:05:43,760 I was panicking. 662 01:05:48,040 --> 01:05:51,160 There was a real danger of walking out in the wrong direction... 663 01:05:53,680 --> 01:05:55,400 ..to effectively no-man's-land... 664 01:05:57,320 --> 01:05:59,360 ..and never be able to find your way back. 665 01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:07,880 But I had to make a decision - I couldn't just stand there. 666 01:06:09,160 --> 01:06:10,560 I had to choose a direction. 667 01:06:14,800 --> 01:06:17,360 It came down, essentially, to pot luck from there on. 668 01:06:39,360 --> 01:06:41,480 Then I bump straight into the structure. 669 01:06:46,360 --> 01:06:49,320 It was 11 metres above me - the platform that I needed to be on. 670 01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:15,160 I'm expecting to see the lights for the diving bell above me. 671 01:07:20,520 --> 01:07:22,080 There was nothing. 672 01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:30,040 I was completely alone. 673 01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:53,600 I have probably got five or six minutes in this bailout. 674 01:07:53,600 --> 01:07:56,080 I must have used it for two or three minutes, getting myself 675 01:07:56,080 --> 01:07:57,120 up here to the top. 676 01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:03,080 Even if the diving bell had been directly above me, 677 01:08:03,080 --> 01:08:06,200 it would have taken the remainder of the gas that I had left on my back 678 01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:07,800 just to get back there, if I was lucky. 679 01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:09,040 So, at that point, 680 01:08:09,040 --> 01:08:12,360 once you've calmed and done the maths, you realise 681 01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:17,280 that your chances of getting out of this are almost non-existent. 682 01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:32,800 The cold is something I don't have any recollection of feeling. 683 01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:40,160 It doesn't make much sense, really, because I know that I would've 684 01:08:40,160 --> 01:08:41,680 been very cold very quickly. 685 01:08:53,160 --> 01:08:55,560 I feel as though I can recount everything from that night, 686 01:08:55,560 --> 01:08:57,800 but the fact that I don't remember being cold... 687 01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:01,400 ..I begin to question how lucid I actually was. 688 01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:07,600 Maybe I didn't last all the time I thought I did. 689 01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:11,960 Maybe I fell unconscious straight away. 690 01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:17,840 So sorry. 691 01:09:22,440 --> 01:09:24,160 I'm so sorry, Morag. 692 01:09:28,120 --> 01:09:31,920 I was explicitly aware of what I was about to lose. 693 01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:38,040 I have very vivid memories of thinking precisely that - 694 01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:39,840 thinking I'm not going to see... 695 01:09:39,840 --> 01:09:41,960 ..I'm not going to see the house I'm halfway 696 01:09:41,960 --> 01:09:45,280 through building finished, which we'd put so much into. 697 01:09:45,280 --> 01:09:47,880 I'm not going to see... 698 01:09:47,880 --> 01:09:50,560 VOICE BREAKING: I'm not going to... 699 01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:52,480 I'm not going to see my wife... 700 01:09:53,800 --> 01:09:55,640 ..on the day we get married, and... 701 01:09:56,840 --> 01:09:57,920 ..it's... 702 01:10:07,440 --> 01:10:10,000 Why am I, a little boy from Cambridge, 703 01:10:10,000 --> 01:10:11,720 in the blackness, about to die? 704 01:10:14,560 --> 01:10:16,360 There's nothing to hide behind, you know, 705 01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:18,160 that's the moment you're going. 706 01:10:18,160 --> 01:10:21,440 BREATHING THROUGH APPARATUS 707 01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:26,360 What sort of person are you? 708 01:10:26,360 --> 01:10:29,400 Were you scared, or are you just telling yourself that you weren't? 709 01:10:29,400 --> 01:10:31,000 Or were you calm? 710 01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:34,040 Cos I'm not so sure. 711 01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:46,200 My thoughts drifted away to the damage I was going to do. 712 01:10:46,200 --> 01:10:48,160 Our hopes and dreams... 713 01:10:49,600 --> 01:10:52,440 ..all these plans we had for the future... 714 01:10:52,440 --> 01:10:54,120 ..about to be dashed. 715 01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:15,440 I can remember it becoming harder to breathe. 716 01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:20,560 Harder to suck down the air that you want. 717 01:11:29,960 --> 01:11:32,400 I remember feeling it was coming. 718 01:11:37,600 --> 01:11:39,520 And then... And then nothing. 719 01:11:41,200 --> 01:11:44,040 SHUDDERING GASP 720 01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:52,160 I knew we'd got him. 721 01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:54,440 He was going to live. 722 01:11:55,480 --> 01:11:56,960 I was just so elated. 723 01:11:58,360 --> 01:12:01,000 At that point I didn't know if he had any brain damage. 724 01:12:01,000 --> 01:12:02,640 I didn't know if he'd be the same Chris. 725 01:12:02,640 --> 01:12:04,440 I didn't know if he'd ever speak again, 726 01:12:04,440 --> 01:12:06,680 but I knew he was breathing. He was alive. 727 01:12:08,120 --> 01:12:10,760 And he got stronger with every breath. 728 01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:17,040 I can remember flashing lights. 729 01:12:17,040 --> 01:12:20,280 Something wasn't quite as it should be. 730 01:12:27,280 --> 01:12:29,240 It was very reassuring to see Duncan. 731 01:12:29,240 --> 01:12:31,840 He's been a bit of a father figure to me in many ways 732 01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:33,680 throughout my career. 733 01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:38,520 It's very comforting to see a friendly face. 734 01:12:48,920 --> 01:12:52,160 I'd decided that he was more than likely dead. 735 01:12:52,160 --> 01:12:55,200 I think I'd started to come to terms with the fact that he was dead 736 01:12:55,200 --> 01:12:57,520 and that we'd recovered a body. 737 01:12:59,240 --> 01:13:00,960 I got into the bell. 738 01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:04,320 I could see Chris sat down there, and... 739 01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:07,400 ..he was definitely not dead. 740 01:13:09,080 --> 01:13:10,800 That was very confusing. 741 01:13:15,760 --> 01:13:17,320 I mean, I remember him asking... 742 01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:19,160 Chris, you all right, buddy? 743 01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:22,000 And he said, "Yeah." 744 01:13:24,640 --> 01:13:26,200 He seemed fine. 745 01:13:30,760 --> 01:13:33,000 It was an extraordinary moment. 746 01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:40,120 A lot of people were relieved. 747 01:13:43,400 --> 01:13:45,520 Obviously, for Chris's sake... 748 01:13:49,160 --> 01:13:52,680 ..but also for their own personal wellbeing. 749 01:13:52,680 --> 01:13:54,840 They didn't want to be involved in a diving fatality 750 01:13:54,840 --> 01:13:56,320 and now they weren't. 751 01:14:00,040 --> 01:14:03,880 I remember almost feeling a little bit pissed off with him, 752 01:14:03,880 --> 01:14:07,360 in the same way that when, if you have a child that wanders off 753 01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:10,240 when they're not meant to and you're frantically looking for them, 754 01:14:10,240 --> 01:14:13,560 when you do find them, as well as the relief you've got, 755 01:14:13,560 --> 01:14:15,920 you've also got a little bit of anger... 756 01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:22,040 ..because they've put you through something. 757 01:14:24,160 --> 01:14:26,000 It's been quite traumatic. 758 01:14:33,080 --> 01:14:36,080 WATER RUSHING, ENGINE WHIRS 759 01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:46,680 That's the bell on the surface. 760 01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:02,600 It wasn't until I went and had a shower that I realised 761 01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:06,840 how exerted I must've been. I remember trying to wash my hair 762 01:15:06,840 --> 01:15:10,720 in the shower and my hands were cramping up and my hands 763 01:15:10,720 --> 01:15:13,280 were like claws, my fingers were stuck. 764 01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:18,360 And that's when I thought, "No, I've worked hard today." 765 01:15:18,360 --> 01:15:21,520 Down at the bottom door. 766 01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:23,600 All right. 767 01:15:23,600 --> 01:15:26,360 Dave, I'll come and talk to you later. Thanks for your help. 768 01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:27,760 Yep... 769 01:15:27,760 --> 01:15:33,240 I couldn't have felt more proud of myself and Dave that day 770 01:15:33,240 --> 01:15:35,680 for what we achieved in that bell. 771 01:15:41,400 --> 01:15:44,840 I did my job, and I would expect nothing less. And the divers 772 01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:47,440 did their jobs and the bridge crew did their jobs. 773 01:15:47,440 --> 01:15:49,880 Everyone did their job, so, you know, you don't pat yourself 774 01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:51,360 on the back for that. 775 01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:54,080 You turned up that day and that's what you get paid for. 776 01:15:57,320 --> 01:15:58,520 Last man leaving the bell. 777 01:16:05,480 --> 01:16:09,680 David and Duncs, they'd done enough. 778 01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:13,480 It was our job to look after him from that point on. 779 01:16:15,080 --> 01:16:20,000 I, for one, couldn't believe we'd got away with it. 780 01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:22,400 I couldn't believe that he was just going to... 781 01:16:22,400 --> 01:16:24,160 We were going to warm him up, 782 01:16:24,160 --> 01:16:26,440 put a tea cosy on his head and he's going to be good to go. 783 01:16:26,440 --> 01:16:28,680 That was incredible to me. 784 01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:37,440 I can remember, after everything had calmed down, 785 01:16:37,440 --> 01:16:38,920 we were doing hourly checks, 786 01:16:38,920 --> 01:16:42,480 and I thought he was kind of just...not dosing, quite, 787 01:16:42,480 --> 01:16:44,480 but he was relaxing. 788 01:16:44,480 --> 01:16:45,640 And... 789 01:16:45,640 --> 01:16:47,360 ..and it's the only... 790 01:16:57,120 --> 01:16:59,960 I'll have to do that one again! 791 01:16:59,960 --> 01:17:02,160 Sorry. Yeah. 792 01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:03,800 Hmm. Yeah. 793 01:17:06,280 --> 01:17:09,760 The only time I've ever felt serious. 794 01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,960 I was just halfway through taking his pulse... 795 01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:20,120 ..and he just kind of looked over at me, he said, 796 01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:22,160 "You know it's OK?" 797 01:17:22,160 --> 01:17:24,040 And I said, "Yeah, I know you're OK, yeah." 798 01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:25,600 He said, "No, no, it's OK. 799 01:17:25,600 --> 01:17:28,240 "I was just drifting off to sleep. 800 01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:30,640 "I was kind of sad for a bit, 801 01:17:30,640 --> 01:17:33,240 "but then I was cold and I got a bit numb, 802 01:17:33,240 --> 01:17:36,320 "but it was like falling asleep. It's not that bad." 803 01:17:41,440 --> 01:17:45,880 That was the only time that anything really got emotional for me, 804 01:17:45,880 --> 01:17:50,720 and the point was, it kind of hit home that he had basically... 805 01:17:53,200 --> 01:17:55,400 HE SNIFFS 806 01:17:58,480 --> 01:18:01,040 ..he decided he was going to die. 807 01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:04,200 He's... 808 01:18:04,200 --> 01:18:06,640 ..trying to tell me that dying's OK, 809 01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:09,840 and that really... That really got to me. 810 01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:31,720 WATER RUSHING 811 01:18:31,720 --> 01:18:35,000 WINCH WHIRS 812 01:18:46,800 --> 01:18:50,320 How I survived is a very good question. 813 01:18:50,320 --> 01:18:53,040 I don't think I will ever really know. 814 01:18:57,160 --> 01:19:00,160 I always assumed that the lowering of my body temperature effectively 815 01:19:00,160 --> 01:19:04,080 shut me down and allowed me to survive on what minimal oxygen 816 01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:05,840 remained in my system. 817 01:19:10,680 --> 01:19:13,800 Also, I'm fairly certain that the high levels of oxygen 818 01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:17,080 which we carry in our emergency breathing gas... 819 01:19:18,680 --> 01:19:21,920 ..saturated my tissues, effectively, with oxygen and allowed 820 01:19:21,920 --> 01:19:24,640 my organs to keep functioning, 821 01:19:24,640 --> 01:19:27,480 even though I had nothing left to breathe. 822 01:19:27,480 --> 01:19:30,120 These are all theories, though. Beyond that, 823 01:19:30,120 --> 01:19:33,320 I'm still waiting for someone to give me the right answer. 824 01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:35,360 I'm not sure I'll ever know. 825 01:19:44,080 --> 01:19:46,720 I received that phone call that everyone dreads. 826 01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:50,600 Your whole world falls apart. 827 01:19:52,920 --> 01:19:57,080 I just kept picturing him lying there on the bottom 828 01:19:57,080 --> 01:19:58,720 of the ocean, helpless. 829 01:19:59,880 --> 01:20:03,240 It's always, you know... When it happens to... 830 01:20:03,240 --> 01:20:06,840 When something like that happens to someone that you love, 831 01:20:06,840 --> 01:20:09,280 I couldn't get that image out of my head. 832 01:20:15,560 --> 01:20:18,200 It didn't matter that he was speaking to me and telling me 833 01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:19,880 that he had survived, 834 01:20:19,880 --> 01:20:22,720 I needed to physically touch him and see him. 835 01:20:34,400 --> 01:20:36,320 It dawned on me that we're going to be OK, 836 01:20:36,320 --> 01:20:39,680 we were going to be able to realise those hopes and dreams 837 01:20:39,680 --> 01:20:41,480 and live our life together. 838 01:20:44,040 --> 01:20:46,640 APPLAUSE 839 01:20:57,240 --> 01:21:00,640 One person in here is definitely going to hate this. 840 01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:02,560 Probably one of only two men in this room 841 01:21:02,560 --> 01:21:04,600 who have given me a decent kiss on the lips. 842 01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:07,520 LAUGHTER 843 01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:09,840 APPLAUSE 844 01:21:38,840 --> 01:21:41,480 That's Diver 2 in the water at 91 metres. 845 01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:47,600 And, Chris, don't fuck it up this time.