[Victor] No manned submersible
has ever been down
to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.
I'm going backwards down a canyon
in a submarine in the Arctic Ocean.
It's easily the most complex terrain
I've ever navigated in.
[Heather] Oh, it's something big, dead ahead!
[Victor] What is it?
This is pack ice
and this can kill ships.
[Rob] The wind chill is minus eight.
If you fall in,
you have two minutes left.
[dramatic music playing]
[Demetri] Humankind has explored
every continent on earth.
We've climbed its tallest mountains...
and even journeyed into space.
[man] Thank you, Mr. President.
[Demetri] But there's a vast swathe of our own planet
that has remained a mystery.
[dramatic music playing]
[Demetri] The deep ocean.
Stretching down over 35,000 feet
into crushing pressures,
it's been near impossible to reach.
Until now.
New engineering breakthroughs
are driving an audacious global mission
to dive the deepest points of all the five oceans,
for the first time in history.
These pioneers will push technology
to the limit.
What the hell was that?
We have leaking hatch.
[Demetri] ...to open up this final frontier,
as never before.
[Cassie] Trying to like mentally put yourself
at the bottom is just mind-blowing.
[Demetri] Mapping hidden landscapes,
discovering unknown life forms.
[Alan] What on earth is that?
[Demetri] And unlocking the secrets of how life
in the extreme deep ocean
affects our entire planet.
[dramatic music playing]
[man] Yeah, go ahead.
[Demetri] Explorer Victor Vescovo
is self-funding a multi-million-dollar
daredevil mission to explore
the extremes of the deep.
[Victor] 70% of this planet is covered in the ocean.
Most of the biomass of the world
is not in the Amazonian rainforest
or the jungles of Africa.
Most of the species on this planet
are in the ocean, and yet,
we still really don't understand
how the ocean works.
[Demetri] On his pioneering global quest to dive
to the deepest points of all of the five oceans,
Victor has conquered the Atlantic.
[cheers and applause]
[Demetri] The Southern Ocean,
the Indian Ocean,
and the Pacific.
[dramatic music playing]
[Demetri] But the success of the entire mission
now hangs in the balance.
You've got to do all five.
It's just like climbing a mountain,
you can't go all the way up
except for the last hundred feet
and say you've climbed it.
[Demetri] Victor will fail unless he can conquer
the coldest of them all,
the Arctic.
This treacherous ocean
envelopes the top of our planet.
In winter, around 80% of it is covered in ice.
[Rob] From here it's only
a few hundred miles to the North Pole.
So, we are about as far north as you can get
and still be afloat.
[Victor] There's going to be a lot of anxiety
because a lot of things can go wrong
because of the harsh conditions up here.
[Demetri] Temperatures here can fall
to as low as minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit,
and have claimed the lives of many past explorers.
[Victor] This is pack ice, this can kill ships.
The ice up here, it's moving and it grows
and it shrinks,
so it's an unpredictable beast.
If we wait too long,
it can actually move south
and can cover the drop zone.
[Demetri] The team's target is 170 miles
from the Norwegian island of Svalbard.
It's a depression in the Arctic sea bed
more than 18,000 feet down.
The Molloy Deep,
also known as the Molloy Hole.
[Victor] No manned submersible has ever been down
to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.
So, I will be the first person
to actually see the Molloy Deep.
Which is always exciting, to be the first.
[Demetri] The Arctic is not the world's deepest ocean,
but amazingly, the slightly squashed shape
of our planet means that if Victor succeeds
in diving to the Molloy Deep,
he will be closer to the center of the earth
than anyone has ever gone before.
To succeed, Victor has commissioned
a ground-breaking prototype submersible.
[Kelvin] That's good there, perfect.
[Rob] The world has never seen
a vehicle like this before.
So this is the first-time that humankind
have had a vehicle that can go to any ocean,
any depth, at any time.
This is like a spacecraft.
[Demetri] The team faced extreme cold
in the Southern Ocean.
But the Arctic Ocean is even colder,
and will push the submersible
even closer to its limits.
Its batteries are particularly vulnerable.
The water temperature I think is around minus one Celsius.
We've got six lithium batteries on board.
You know, in the back of your mind, you're thinking
are they going to handle this?
If we lose one, no big deal, we'll keep going.
You know, we start losing two and three...
[Demetri] The team have finally reached
the Molloy Deep.
There can be just a few weeks a year
when the site is clear enough of ice to dive.
They will need to make the most
of the Arctic summer's 24-hour daylight
as they begin scanning for the ocean's deepest point.
[Heather] We use a piece of equipment called
a 'multibeam echosounder'
we use sound which we send from the ship
down to the seabed, it bounces back up
and that will give us a 3D model of the seabed.
The other four are good, going for five.
[Demetri] To survive, the sub will need to withstand
pressures the equivalent of being crushed
by the weight of a cruise ship.
But how will the sub cope with the arctic extremes?
The team have decided to launch an exploratory dive.
The sonar has detected a promising landing zone
at around half the depth of the ocean,
still a crushing 6,500 feet deep.
It's on the slopes of a giant
underwater mountain, or 'seamount'.
It was formed from near-molten rock
forced up from under the seabed
around three million years ago.
Biologist Alan Jamieson is hoping that
this pioneering dive might also add
to the expedition's growing list
of newly-discovered deep-sea species.
The Molloy Seamount is the size
of a pretty big mountain.
There's a constant rain
of organic matter coming down.
We're looking at habitats
which we think will be covered in life.
[Demetri] Alan decides to launch lander probes
onto the seamount.
Baited cameras and traps will help in his search
for new species adapted to survive
in the Arctic deep.
[Alan] Okay, Heather, pull it!
[Demetri] With the lander probes descending,
it's time to launch the submersible
into the icy waters.
[Kelvin] Yeah, full speed out.
Okay, we're gonna go ahead and swing her into the pocket.
[Frank] All right, we're clear!
We're ready! [laughs]
[Demetri] Biologist Alan will be joining Victor
for this trailblazing dive onto the seamount.
[Rob] Don't fall in.
The water temperature is minus one.
If you fall in, you have two minutes left
and then you're gonna drown.
[Kelvin] Slack on that.
Can somebody come down and put some slack on that line?
[Patrick] Roger that.
We'll have to see how this looks, boys,
hey listen man, if he has to swim,
it's a cold [bleep].
Gotta really be mindful on this one,
we do not want him going in the drink,
that's for sure.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Demetri] Alan and Victor are safely aboard,
but the launch still has its potential dangers
for the crew.
One of the people we'll be most concerned
with is our swimmer.
He's exposed to the weather most of all.
[Tim] My biggest risk is
if my hands get cold, then I'm not much good.
[Victor] Down in the Southern Ocean,
our diver almost went hypothermic.
[woman] Have the doctor on standby, he's shaking!
[Victor] He was exposed for so long
in extremely cold water on the surface.
So now we have back up divers
we have a better launch and recovery system.
So, the real danger is actually to the personnel
that are trying to get the sub
in and out of the water and that's where
I frankly will be most concerned.
[Patrick] Alright Tim, down to you, buddy.
[Kelvin] Out on the tow.
Okay, I want you to go full speed out now,
full speed out.
[Kelvin] Whoa, whoa.
Hang on, hang on buddy, hang on.
All stop, all stop, all stop!
Don't watch my hand. You call out and just acknowledge.
[Patrick] Down on the main, here we go.
[Kelvin] Okay, Victor, you're away
[Victor] Sub's away, thrusters are isolated...
[Patrick] He's getting his ass kicked out there.
Woah!
[Rob] Release, Release, Release.
[Patrick] Hang on Timmy, [bleep] damn!
[Tim] Released!
[Patrick] I can't see it, so hopefully it's clear...
[Rob] The sub is off the towline.
[Patrick] Roger that.
[Rob] Oh [bleep]. Tim?
[Rob] Just... I'll jump in.
Oh, [bleep]
Tim?
You okay, Tim?
You okay, man?
- Great. - [Rob] Okay, Kelvin.
We have the handrails, we have the swimmer,
you're good to go.
[Kelvin] Roger that LF, LF, this is SO.
[Rob] You're clear to start pumping and start your dive.
Roger that, enabling thrusters.
[Demetri] As they begin their descent,
Victor and Alan pass through the Sunlight Zone.
In the long Arctic summer, the sun won't set
on these waters for four months.
They're home to the acrobat of the ocean,
the Humpback Whale.
These arctic giants come to feed
on the tiny zooplankton that swarm
when the sea ice melts, eating up
to 5,500 pounds of them a day.
Descending past 600 feet,
they enter the Twilight Zone.
It's home to the graceful Sea Angel.
A type of sea slug, its foot has evolved
into wing-like fins.
And there are visitors from above,
the Narwhal.
The males have a distinctive long tusk,
an extended canine tooth
which they use to sense prey.
Diving as deep as 4,900 feet,
they can stay submerged for 25 minutes at a time.
Finally, almost an hour after leaving the surface,
Victor and Alan reach the slopes
of the underwater mountain.
Six thousand five-hundred feet of water
is now crushing them.
[Victor] Very rocky.
[Alan] Approach with caution.
We're gonna go down the canyon,
cliff diving, submarine-style.
[Demetri] Birthed from the fiery depths
of our planet, the seamount's surface
is scarred with canyons and sharp ridges.
Could unknown life forms be lurking
in this alien landscape?
[Alan] Animals living all the way down
these cliff faces.
It's just incredibly complex.
- [Victor] Oh, it's steep here. - [Alan] Yeah.
Now the current's now pushing me forward, can you feel it?
- [Alan] Yup. - How strong it is?
[Alan] What is that?
Woah, up, up, up, up, up!
[bleep]
LF confirm
you read my last transmission
[radio static]
[Victor] Surface, life support good.
Life support okay,
loud and clear
[Alan] [bleep],
it just came out of the sediment cloud.
This current's now pushing me all over the place.
Woah.
What, is it spinning us?
Yeah, it's spinning the sub,
pushing us.
I'm going backwards down a canyon
in a submarine in the Arctic ocean.
[Victor] Woah!
What the [bleep] is going on?
It keeps pushing me into the wall!
- [Alan] Really? - Yeah.
And we're going down.
[Alan] Holy [bleep]!
This is easily the most complex terrain
I've ever navigated.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Alan] Things are getting weirder and weirder.
[Victor] All this stuff on the bottom...
[Alan] What is this?
[Victor] Yeah, what is this stuff?
[Alan] It's an incredibly diverse area.
There's loads of sea lilies everywhere,
there's these big wonderful white sponges.
There's a whole bunch of prawns down here,
there are urchins, there are sea stars buried in there.
[Demetri] Meanwhile, 2,000 feet away,
one of the lander probes is capturing
some extraordinary cold-water specialists,
Eelpouts.
[Alan] They're quite aggressive,
so when they get close to one another,
one of them will bite the other one
and they'll have a little altercation
and then they'll go and reposition.
These are not a species you find outside of the Arctic.
These are very much a polar deep-sea species.
[dramatic music playing]
[Demetri] The cold is sapping the submersible's power.
But the batteries have shown that they can survive
the Arctic's extreme temperatures.
It's time for Victor and Alan
to head to the surface.
[Alan] Well, I guess that's us. That was cool!
Three and a half hours.
Surface, this is LF ascending.
[cheering]
[Victor] Great job, guys!
[Patrick] How was it?
It was crazy, we went down
a 200m wall backwards because it was so steep.
Then the current started pushing
us up against the wall.
So we ended up...
[Victor] Saw a lot of strange stuff.
I mean we went all the way down to minimal power.
I came up with half my batteries,
three of them were dead,
it was cold water so...
All right, time to go and get warmed.
[Rob] Conditions today are good
but out to the east here,
we can expect 5.5 meters
or 20 foot seas.
The color of the diagram shows
the wind chill is minus eight.
So, we can expect...
up to 45, 50 knots.
[Patrick] This part of the world is notorious
for rough seas, strong winds.
So, we just have to be extra vigilant,
extra careful,
and just keep an eye on the conditions,
we're going to have to try and condense
the diving that we have planned
into a much shorter time frame.
[Demetri] Stormy conditions would make launching
or recovering the sub extremely dangerous.
And it could also set
the unpredictable pack ice on the move.
With the weather holding for now,
the sonar team have detected a strange signal
which could point to an unusual
geological feature on the seamount.
It could be something.
[Heather] So the data that we're looking at
from the sonar,
it does a sort of show a diffuse cloud,
something erupting on the seabed down there,
a vent system.
[Demetri] Finding the vents could give geologists
new insight into how the Arctic Ocean's seabed
is being formed.
It'd be such a huge find to find it.
[Demetri] It's an opportunity they can't afford to miss.
Really unusual vent features
have never been documented in this area
but all indications are that we should be able
to find them and that would be a first.
[Demetri] The sub could now face a new threat.
The Arctic may be the world's coldest ocean,
but the water coming out of the vents
might be dangerously hot.
[Heather] We're probably looking at temperatures
of the erupting fluids of about 90 degrees.
Even at 90 degrees C
is problematic.
[tense music playing]
[Demetri] On the hunt for undersea vents,
the sub could be exposed to dangerously hot water.
The team knows that the sub's spherical cockpit
has potential weak points that could be vulnerable.
[Patrick] I understand that these hydrothermal vents
are about 90 degrees Celsius,
so the acrylic viewports would be the thing
that you'd be most concerned about.
The design of the vehicle is based
around water temperatures
not being more than 10 Celsius
at that sort of depth.
[Demetri] If the acrylic viewports are melted
by the hot vents, the super-high-pressure water
will enter the sub
and fill it in a milli-second.
To avoid dropping the sub
directly onto potentially damaging
hot water vents,
the team select a landing zone
a safe distance away.
Victor will then need to navigate
across the precipitous slopes
of the seamount to his target.
Okay, here we go, let's do this!
[Demetri] Heather is joining Victor
for this 8,200 foot dive
to hunt for the vents.
[Heather] I'm so excited!
[Demetri] She will become the first woman
to descend to the Arctic deeps.
[Kelvin] How's everything looking there?
Hatch secure, life support running?
Hatch is good, life support running.
I have a green board.
[Kelvin] Roger that. Here we go.
[Heather] Good God, we're almost at 400 already!
We're below the crush depth of most military submarines
- [Heather] Yes! [laughs] - At this point.
[Heather] Oh gosh!
[Victor] It's never done that.
It's a bad seal or something.
That's way too much.
Surface, LF, we've got dripping
coming from the hatch.
You talking about the main hatch?
[Victor] Hatch vent, I repeat hatch vent.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Victor] I'm calling an abort.
I'm dropping VBTs and surfacing weight.
We're returning to surface.
Roger that, understand, dropping VBTs
and surfacing weight.
I am not pleased.
We need to rally our troops.
Can you please go down into the lounge downstairs
and let everybody know?
Rig for recovery.
Disappointing, but he's coming back up
and we're going for recovery.
See if we can have a look at it.
Maybe there's something in there, I don't know.
Right. Um, I'm gonna strip my gear off,
and I'm gonna jump up there and pull that vent out
right away.
[Demetri] With the approaching
Arctic storm threatening to curtail
the whole mission,
sub engineer Kelvin is under pressure
to get the sub fixed and back in the water
as soon as possible.
The sub won't be able to dive again
unless Kelvin can fix the hatch vent.
Yeah, this is where the leak was coming through here.
We think that the shaft might have been bent
a little bit, which it is.
So we're just gonna try and...
try and straighten it out.
I don't know.
I don't know whether it was dripping
a little bit or a lot, you know.
[Demetri] With such a precisely
engineered component,
there's only so much Kelvin can do
in the ship's workshop.
It's not gonna straighten up in there.
There is a variance.
[Demetri] Has Kelvin done enough to make
the hatch vent seal?
[Kelvin] A little bit of backyard mechanicking.
Patrick, that felt really good.
- [Patrick] All right, Kelvin. - Yep.
It's all we can do.
[Demetri] With a turnaround
of just over two hours,
the team can now launch again
to search for the underwater vents.
[Patrick] Let's hope like hell
that [bleep] damn hatch vent works.
[Victor] Round two.
If at first you don't succeed...
[Patrick] Good luck, have a good dive.
[Kelvin] Okay, bridge, we're gonna go for launch.
[man] Copy that, you are good to go.
[Victor] We are now pumping in.
[Kelvin] Roger that, you're go to pump.
Pumping.
That hatch is looking damned solid now.
I'm much happier.
Surface, hatch is good.
[Tom] That's good to hear,
- thanks Victor. - Kelvin will be happy.
Yeah.
That was it Magee!
Yeah!
[Demetri] After 25 minutes of descending.
Victor and Heather reach the Midnight Zone.
Only one percent of sunlight penetrates
the 3,000 feet of water above them.
Temperatures this deep are below zero.
It's only the salt in the water
that keeps it from freezing.
Surface LF, present depth
1921,
heading 022,
life support good.
[Demetri] This is the domain
of the mysterious Greenland Shark.
Growing to 21 feet,
it has one of the longest lifespans
of any animal on earth.
It can live a staggering 500 years.
Some alive today may have been born
before the voyage of the Mayflower.
[Victor] Here we come.
Touch down.
You're getting excited. You're using more oxygen.
- Am I? Sorry. - [laughter]
[Victor] It's true, you are.
I saw that the oxygen spiked up
since we got to the bottom.
[suspenseful music playing]
- Look at how sharp it is. - [Heather] Yeah.
All these rocks look really dark and basaltic.
[Victor] There's a really big basalt rock coming up.
[Demetri] Basalt is formed from solidified lava,
which erupts as the bedrock pulls apart.
Could this be a sign that the hydrothermal vents
with their potentially dangerous
hot water, are close?
[Heather] Pretty big boulders off to your left.
Boulders the size of cars just scattered all over here.
There looks like something quite large coming up.
You might want to just lift up a little bit.
There's definitely something very big.
[Heather] Oh, it's something big, dead ahead.
- What is it? - [Heather] I can't see.
Wow!
[Demetri] 6,200 feet down,
the sub has run up against a huge obstacle.
[Victor] I don't even know how high that is.
[Heather] Nope, no idea.
That is massive.
[Victor] Right in our way.
We're going up a really sharp incline.
[Heather] It's near vertical now.
- Wow. - [Heather] Jeez.
[Victor] It's actually pushing me backwards
into the hole. It's pushing me down the slope.
All right, crikey, you need to help me out here.
This is... This is pretty dynamic.
[Heather] Coming up quick on this side.
[Victor] Woah!
[Heather] Where did he come from?
[Victor] Yeah, it happens once in a while.
I'm totally going to that big black open area.
Woah.
[Heather] Quite a drop-off on that side.
Wow.
Kind of like space exploration, huh?
[Heather] Yeah. [laughs]
[Victor] Like on a different planet.
[Victor] It looks like nodules on the bottom.
Are those critters?
Sort of interesting.
[Heather] Well, yeah, yeah.
It's very different to what we were seeing
coming up the steeper sections there.
We've got some stuff coming up.
Look at the sonar.
Oh, yeah.
[Victor] Which is interesting
because this is all flat sediment.
[Heather] Yeah.
And then we've got a big...
God knows what's coming up.
[Heather] This is different.
It's undulating now. It's like
we're on the top of a mesa.
Look at this. Oh, wow.
That's a hard crust!
[Victor] I've never seen that.
[Heather] It's a hard crust of some sort.
[Victor] Oh my gosh, there's a tunnel.
Yes, I was just pointing that out.
- There's a tunnel. - Yes.
- There's a bloody tunnel. - Yeah.
[Victor] How does that happen?
[Heather] [indistinct]
The crust that we're seeing
is showing us that there's fluids coming up.
It's depositing the minerals
and gluing together
the softer seafloor sediment.
And forming this harder crust.
[Demetri] This new evidence for fluid
emerging from the arctic seafloor,
is a ground-breaking find.
A secret, dynamic landscape
revealed in the Arctic deep.
There's another one.
[Heather] Oh, wow!
[suspenseful music playing]
[cheering]
[Patrick] He's pretty happy.
[indistinct radio chatter]
- [man] How was that? - [Heather] Thanks guys!
Just amazing, yeah.
[Victor] Come on, big hug.
- Glad we finally got you down. - Yep.
[Demetri] Victor heads to the sonar room
to discover if there's news of the team's quest,
to find the deepest point in the Arctic.
The final goal of his global five deeps mission.
[Cassie] We've identified this area to be the deepest.
We're gonna dive over here.
We have a lander on the deepest spot.
Right, so that's it.
Right here.
[Demetri] Victor's target is in the shadow
of the seamount more than three miles down.
[Patrick] This is the first time
that anybody has dived at this site.
That's what makes it exciting,
but it also means you have to be careful.
[Demetri] On this dive, the sub's systems
will need to survive in the Arctic danger zone
for more than seven hours.
- She looks clean. - [man] Okay.
It's going to be the coldest dive.
There's no doubt about that.
That'll add a lot of stress to the submersible,
to the electronics, to the sphere itself,
to everything.
[Demetri] With the team preparing for the deep dive,
the weather window is closing.
[Kelvin] I think the weather is going to turn on us.
So, it's going to be a push.
We want to get that dive done, but yeah,
we're fighting weather again.
[Rob] The low-pressure system,
which is forming south of us,
is going to start exerting influence
and starting to throw weather up towards us.
That's going to push the pack ice
onto the dive site.
[Demetri] The team must launch
as soon as possible.
Everything hinges on this crucial dive
to the last of the five deeps.
This is Victor's chance
to mark a new chapter
in human history,
as the first person to reach
the deepest point of all of the world's five oceans.
It's the last push to get across the finish line.
You're so close, it's so tantalizingly close
and yet we're not there.
[Patrick] Okay, Victor. Your chariot awaits.
Last one buddy, last one.
Thank you.
Number five, let's do this.
One more!
- [laughs] - Good. Good.
Alright Kelvin, put him in and bring him back safe.
[Kelvin] You betcha!
It will get colder.
I have no doubt about that.
You're clear to start pumping and start your dive.
Roger that, I have a green board.
[Demetri] It will take Victor
more than two and a half hours
to reach the bottom.
[suspenseful music playing]
[Patrick] There she goes!
[Demetri] The lander probe CLOSP
has been dropped on the deepest point
identified by the sonar team.
Victor will need to navigate across the seabed to CLOSP,
to complete his five deeps mission.
Twenty five meters already.
This machine goes down the water column
pretty darn fast.
Wow, this is exciting.
Last of the five deeps,
such a long journey.
I'm in the deep dark black ocean.
[cracking]
A little crack here and there,
it's just the outside of the submersible
getting used to the pressure.
That's always a little alarming.
Wow, temperature is dropping
despite the heater.
Surface LF, present depth
3300,
life support good.
[Patrick] Roger LF, loud and clear.
[Victor] Roger.
Definitely two thirds of the way down,
getting close.
Wow.
[Demetri] The pressure squeezing the sub
has increased to a staggering 30,700 tons.
There's the equivalent of 1031 stories
of water above him.
Ten Empire State Buildings
stood on top of each other.
Alright, getting a little bit of dropped water
from the hatch vent.
It should seal with the higher pressure, to be honest.
[Suspenseful music playing]
[radio static]
[Demetri] Victor Vescovo is diving
to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.
But now water is finding its way
through the hatch vent.
As Victor descends further,
the sub is squeezed by the immense
water pressure.
Amazingly this begins to plug the hole.
It's pretty much stopped, that's good.
I'm not concerned,
that is not an abort condition.
[Demetri] Two hours into his descent,
at 13,000 feet,
Victor enters the Abyssal Zone,
the deepest part of the Arctic Ocean.
And home to an arctic variety
of the deepest-living octopus,
the bizarre Dumbo.
While most octopuses swim using jets of water,
the nine-inch long Dumbo propels itself
with its ear-like fins.
There it is, 5000 meters.
Oh, my goodness,
this is getting exciting.
So close!
All external lights are on,
sonar is on.
A hundred and forty three meters off the bottom,
in the last of the five deeps.
Here we go, we're getting close.
Oh, my goodness, we should start to see it very soon.
I'm at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean!
Surface, this is the LF.
The LF has landed!
[laughs]
That's great!
He's not gonna talk anymore, he's gonna be navigating
to CLOSP.
[Demetri] Victor is the first human being
to reach the bottom.
But the mission isn't over.
He still needs to reach the deepest point
of the Arctic Ocean.
The lander probe named CLOSP
has been dropped at this exact location.
If Victor can find it,
he'll complete his record-breaking
five deeps mission.
If he fails, his dream will remain
beyond his reach.
[Patrick] Roger LF,
searching for CLOSP.
[Victor] Oh, there are some little creatures
on the bottom, quite a few.
I'm getting a lot of violent variation
in my heading, so it's all over the place.
I'm wondering if the magnetic field of the earth
this far north,
it's actually playing havoc
with the navigation system,
giving a lot of erroneous readings.
LF, Surface.
LF, go ahead.
The lander is approximately
200 meters.
[Victor] I've got a hard return
dead ahead.
I don't see his light,
just too far out.
Going due north.
So he must be getting close.
Come on.
I'm getting slightly away.
Let's try south again.
Surely he's got it on sonar?
[bleep] damn, 121m.
All directions can't be further away from you.
Searching for CLOSP.
[Patrick] Roger LF.
Searching for CLOSP.
[Demetri] The clock is ticking.
Victor must find the lander probe
before the cold of the Arctic deep
depletes his batteries.
Okay, closing.
It is north and east of me.
No, a little more east.
[bleep] CLOSP!
No matter what I do, I go farther away from him.
It's now south of me.
Oh that's my skid marks there.
[Demetri] With his instruments
malfunctioning, Victor is struggling
to find his way in the abyss.
Very silty,
if you blast the surface, you've really got to move
to get out of it.
I just cannot get a good...
More north or more south?
It's gotta be him.
I've got a really hard return.
Come on!
He's at the right depth.
[Victor] Present depth 5589,
life support good.
Roger LF, we have you loud and clear.
[Victor] Surface, LF present depth 5589.
[Tom] He can't hear us.
[Patrick] He can't hear us. Oh [bleep].
[Demetri] Victor's precious link to any help
from above has cut out.
He's now completely alone.
What the [bleep]?
[Demetri] Victor is desperately hunting
for the lander probe CLOSP
located at the deepest point of the Arctic Ocean.
Had it for a second.
[Demetri] He needs to find his target
before his batteries run out of power.
But now his radio link with the surface has cut out.
[Patrick] Did he get your message?
[Tom] Not sure. No he didn't.
[Patrick] [beep]
[static on radio]
[Demetri] With no link to the sub,
Mission Control are powerless to help Victor
with his time-critical search.
Can't hear them at all.
Come on, almost out of time.
It's almost three hours down here.
[radio static]
[Victor] Come on!
Twenty three meters.
I have you now!
I gotcha.
There it is,
the end of a dream.
Have to touch down.
I'm at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.
Surface, this is the LF,
life support good.
The LF has landed.
- At CLOSP. - [Patrick] Woo-hoo!
Roger that LF, understand you are on the bottom,
congratulations Victor!
Thank you, sir, and thank you all.
All of you made this happen, thank you so much.
Hell of a thing!
Patrick, we did it.
Five deeps done.
Let's go home.
I've just completed the five deeps.
This is the first submarine
and I guess I'm the first person
to the bottom of all five of the world's oceans.
It's incredibly exciting,
I can't believe we were able to do it.
What an amazing machine.
[Demetri] On its 46,000 mile round-the-world odyssey,
the sub has proven a triumph of engineering.
Conquering the most extreme underwater environments
on the planet.
Victor has overcome adversity in the depths
of the Atlantic.
[Patrick] Oh my God!
We just lost the manipulator arm.
[Demetri] Conquered the extremes
of the Southern Ocean.
Found new species in the Indian Ocean's
Tsunami hotspot.
[Alan] I've never seen anything like that,
that's the weirdest thing I've ever filmed.
[Demetri] And gone deeper than any human before
in the depths of the Pacific's Mariana Trench.
[Kelvin] Victor Vescovo, world's deepest diver!
[Patrick] You did it buddy! You did it.
[dramatic music playing]
[cheering]
Yeah.
Five.
- We did it. - Well done.
[Stuart] SO, Bridge.
Lovely job, sir.
[Victor] Hey buddy.
- Well done. - [man] Very good.
[Patrick] I'm so proud to have been part
of this historic expedition.
For me it been the privilege
and honor of my professional life.
Well done
- Congratulations man! - Thank you, sir.
- Congratulations to you. - It's a hell of a thing.
You built it!
So proud of you.
Thank you, Shane, well done.
[Alan] Scientifically, it's been absolutely amazing.
We've discovered over 40 new species.
- Yeah. - What a thing.
What a thing.
I don't know it's what to say.
Amazing.
What is there to say?
We just dove to the bottom of all five
of the world's oceans,
it's a hell of a feeling.
It feels fantastic.
[man] Woohoo!
[Victor] What little kid doesn't want to grow up
and be an explorer?
And you know, if you put your mind to it
and you get the right people working with you,
almost anything is possible.
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