Last Breath: The True Story of Chris Lemons' Near-Death Experience in the North Sea

In this episode of The Compendium, we uncover the true story of Chris Lemmon’s near-death experience in the North Sea—a survival tale that defies belief. In 2012, Chris, a seasoned saturation diver, was carrying out routine maintenance work 300 feet beneath the surface when disaster struck. His lifeline—the umbilical cord supplying air, warmth, and communication—suddenly snapped, leaving him stranded in total darkness, with no oxygen and no way to escape.

What followed was an unthinkable fight for survival in one of the most extreme environments on Earth. How did Chris Lemmon beat the odds? What happens when a diver loses their air supply? And why do some call this story nothing short of a miracle?

We give you just The Compendium, but if you want more, here are our resources:

1. Last Breath (2019) - Directed by Alex Parkinson and Richard da Costa
2. Last Breath - The True Story - BBC

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[00:00:01] Adam Cox: . Dave tries to help Chris, but his umbilical won't stretch any further. Dave is literally two meters away from Chris when he's yanked further away. And Chris is like, I can't get out of this situation. And his umbilical is creaking. It's making a sound that, you know, any minute now it's gonna snap and then it does. 

[00:00:18] Kyle Risi: It's, oh, it snaps. So he can't see Duncan and his umbilical cord is snapped. It's pitch black. What is trapped there? 

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[00:00:53] Adam Cox: Hello and welcome to The Compendium, an assembly of fascinating things. A weekly variety podcast [00:01:00] that gives you just enough information to stand your ground at any social gathering. 

[00:01:04] Kyle Risi: We guide you through stories from the darker corners of true crime, the hidden gems of history, and the jaw dropping deeds of extraordinary people.

[00:01:12] Adam Cox: I'm Adam Cox, your ringmaster for this episode. 

[00:01:14] Kyle Risi: And I'm Kyle Reesey.

[00:01:16] Adam Cox: Your deep sea diver of drama for this episode. Deep Sea. Oh, interesting. You're tying into the theme of today's episode. 

[00:01:24] Kyle Risi: Well, I'm slightly aware of today's episode. Just slightly, just ever so slightly. 

[00:01:29] Adam Cox: that's not really circus themed. Have we changed this? 

[00:01:32] Kyle Risi: Hey, no, it kind of is. Imagine like a big aquarium, right?

[00:01:36] And I'm dressed obviously in a mermaid costume. And I'm diving into the water and there's a big glass window and everyone is amazed by my ability to somersault in the water. 

[00:01:47] Adam Cox: I think you're just like a goldfish. 

[00:01:49] Kyle Risi: I'm a mermaid. A merman. I'm a merman.

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[00:02:31] Adam Cox: All right then, freaks. Enough of this housekeeping. Let's buckle up and get the show started. Because in today's episode of the Compendium, we're heading 127 miles off the coast of Scotland to the middle of one of the most dangerous seas in the world, the North Sea. 

[00:02:47] Kyle Risi: it is such a shit sea. I'm pretty sure it's like the worst sea. I mean, our coastline is on the North Sea and the Norfolk coast is just, I've never swam in the North Sea and I've lived here for 20 years.

[00:02:59] I will not go in [00:03:00] that water. You don't go in water that's brown. Well, that's just like the sand and the sediment. 

[00:03:05] Adam Cox: Is it though? Or is it just like a load of doo doo? Well, I'm sure there is some doo doo, but usually our beaches around the Norfolk coast and Suffolk have got blue flags. They're clean beaches.

[00:03:15] So yeah, it's not the nicest sea, but it's where today's story does take place.

[00:03:19] Despite the deadly storms, the heavy fog, and tangled currents, the north sea is one of the planet's busiest bodies of water. It's home to hundreds of oil rigs, and for weeks at a time, those that work in the oil industry live here. It's probably why it's brown.

[00:03:33] Probably all that oil, right? I thought we covered that. It's the sand and the sediment. Nah, I don't know. I'm suspicious. So, some of the workers that are working in around this area are saturation divers and they perform crucial maintenance to these oil rigs underwater. They are crammed into these caravan sized pressurized steel chambers with five other people and they live in these chambers and life in there is quite tough.

[00:03:58] It's nothing compared to what [00:04:00] waits below, however. 

[00:04:01] Kyle Risi: What's the saturation bit about? So you're a saturation driver, what is that? 

[00:04:06] Adam Cox: Oh, a saturation diver, so. Oh, 

[00:04:08] Kyle Risi: did I say driver? I meant diver. 

[00:04:10] Adam Cox: Um, So they perform maintenance work about 100 metres down on the seabed in the pitch black icy cold water.

[00:04:18] Kyle Risi: So they're like fixing the oil pump. Pump things that go into the ground. 

[00:04:21] Adam Cox: Yeah, they work along the seabed. They're laying Underwater cables they might be repairing structures down there Maintenance all sorts and it's all kind of keeping these oil rigs in the modern world essentially in order it kind of feels more like outer space with every diver tethered to the surface by a lifeline and it's a 50 meter umbilical cord that supplies air, light, warmth and communication to those up top.

[00:04:45] Kyle Risi: Right, so when you imagine like those old school 1950s divers with those big helmets and they're attached to like this cable that goes all the way to the top they've got this tiny little window. 

[00:04:54] Adam Cox: Yeah. 

[00:04:55] Kyle Risi: That's what the umbilical cord is. It's providing them with all the nutrients, well, the [00:05:00] oxygen that they need, but it sounds like in the modern day time there's way more.

[00:05:03] Yeah. They're getting warmth pumped in there as well. Do they get water? 

[00:05:06] Adam Cox: Yeah no, not actual water. They don't get like a supply of sparkling water down there. It's more hot water that's pumped around their suit. 

[00:05:12] Kyle Risi: What if they get thirsty? And a little snack and shove a little Oreo down that umbilical cord. Yeah, I don't know. 

[00:05:18] Adam Cox: Mama's getting ready to feed you. I don't know how they can take their packed lunch down there. No. I don't think that works. Okay. 

[00:05:25] Kyle Risi: I, so yeah, I'm aware of this kind of maintenance thing that happens, , you get sent down, you're attached to this umbilical cord, you do all this maintenance work.

[00:05:32] Yeah, it's very important. It's a very important economical kind of part of the North Sea. Extracting from Mother Nature's, all her resources. 

[00:05:40] Adam Cox: Yes, so you know you know, maybe not great for the planet, but hey, we need it. We need it for our cars and all sorts. So today we're As Trump would say, Drill, baby, drill!

[00:05:49] Yeah, I know. I mean, he's got Anyway, that's another story. Hang on, hang on, were you gonna say he's got a point? Well, he's got a point in terms of we need obviously to, you know, keep [00:06:00] resources, but whether we need to keep drilling? No, we need 

[00:06:02] Kyle Risi: resources. We don't need to keep drilling for oil. 

[00:06:04] Adam Cox: Mm 

[00:06:05] Kyle Risi: hmm. Anyway, that's another story.

[00:06:07] Adam Cox: Let's, 

[00:06:07] Kyle Risi: let's not dive into politics. Let's not do 

[00:06:09] Adam Cox: that one, not today. So today we're actually covering what happened to a guy called Chris Lemons at the bottom of the sea. So Chris was a relatively experienced saturation diver, having performed this job various times before, 2012. Everything went wrong. At 2am, 300 feet beneath the North Sea, Chris's umbilical cord snapped and suddenly he was surrounded in total darkness with no air, no heat, no light, nothing.

[00:06:37] . He was completely and utterly alone. 

[00:06:40] Kyle Risi: Damn. It's a bit like birth, really. Because that's what happens, your umbilical cord gets snapped, you're out there alone, no food, no water, exposed to the elements, you're now a human being, you're out of the womb.

[00:06:51] But in this sense he's down under the sea and he's petrified. 

[00:06:54] Adam Cox: Yeah, birth, you're actually, life. so yeah, it's not quite the same thing. 

[00:06:57] Kyle Risi: Right, okay. 

[00:06:57] Adam Cox: But the umbilical cord it does provide life. That's [00:07:00] what I was playing on, 

[00:07:01] Kyle Risi: basically.

[00:07:02] Adam Cox: You 

[00:07:02] Kyle Risi: said umbilical cord, I went to giving birth. 

[00:07:04] Adam Cox: Yeah, well that's kind of why they call it that. So for me, I mean, I'm not the best swimmer, and I don't like being out in my depth, but this is one of the stories that really gripped me, because, yeah, claustrophobia, at the bottom of the sea, not able to breathe, I was just like, pretty kind of captivated by this story. 

[00:07:20] Kyle Risi: Yeah, you're not great in water, are you?

[00:07:22] No. No, you get really anxious, like, the times that we've been out snorkeling or scuba diving, you've just been like, nope! But me, I'm like a felt dolphin, man, like slick in and out of the water. Swim really fast, like diving, somersaulting. I love the water. I guess because I grew up in South Africa, right?

[00:07:38] So when I wasn't running wild and free on the African plains, I was in the Indian Ocean swimming with the pilchards. 

[00:07:45] Adam Cox: Where are you? Do you just have a swimming pool? 

[00:07:47] Kyle Risi: Yeah, but I would also go to the ocean, right? Okay. Go down to Durban, chill out there, bleat, obey, you know. 

[00:07:52] Adam Cox: Right, well before we plunge into this tale, Mm hmm.

[00:07:56] Let's first start by covering a little bit more about what a saturation diver does , , [00:08:00] and it's a method designed to allow divers to work at extreme depths for extended periods of time without a constant risk of decompression sickness.

[00:08:10] So what is decompression sickness or DCS? 

[00:08:12] Kyle Risi: It's like the bends, right? 

[00:08:14] Adam Cox: Yeah, it can be commonly referred to as the bends, which is a condition that occurs when dissolved gases, primarily nitrogen, come out of solution in the body's tissues and bloodstream due to a rapid decrease in pressure. So it's a common risk for divers who ascend too quickly to the surface without allowing sufficient time for these gases to safely leave their bodies.

[00:08:35] Kyle Risi: So that what this nitrogen gas just kind of just builds up inside your system, right? Creating like these little pockets. 

[00:08:40] Adam Cox: Yeah, that's right. Because when a diver is underwater, the increased pressure causes more nitrogen from the breathing gas to dissolve into their bloodstream.

[00:08:48] And during a proper ascent, a diver stops at intervals called decompression stops, which allow that nitrogen to safely exit the body through exhalation. So if the ascent is too rapid, [00:09:00] or if thediver skips these decompression stops, the nitrogen forms bubbles in the blood and tissues and these bubbles can cause various symptoms and complications, everything from having a rash, to muscle pain, to then life threatening issues if they don't, ascend properly.

[00:09:15] Kyle Risi: Our friend used to work in the Norwich and Norfolk University Hospital in the Benz unit? And didn't her brother actually have to go to that place and he has to go into this decompression cabin where he had to stay there for like 12 hours while he properly decompressed, essentially.

[00:09:33] Yeah. Scary stuff, right? 

[00:09:34] Adam Cox: Absolutely. And that was, that's just 12 hours. These guys are down there for days. 

[00:09:39] Kyle Risi: Mm. 

[00:09:39] Adam Cox: example of how long you might have to have a deep compression stop, if you dive for 30 meters for 40 minutes, you would need a 10 minute stop on the way back to the surface in order to, you know, allow those gases and bubbles to kind of dissolve when you breathe out.

[00:09:56] But if you're working at 100 meters below the sea level for 6 [00:10:00] hours, so that's a standard day for a saturation diver, you'd need about 5 days of decompression before you could get back to normal surface. Wow. So you are not 

[00:10:09] Kyle Risi: just going down there for the day, right?

[00:10:11] if you're going that deep, you're there for a while. 

[00:10:13] Adam Cox: Exactly. So, You've got to do a full day's work at the bottom of the ocean. You can't obviously then spend five days in getting back up to the shore. So they live down there. Yeah. So in the UK, I think the legal, amount of time or the most amount of time you can spend down there is 28 days.

[00:10:28] So yeah, you would eat, sleep and live entirely within these chambers alongside your team for up to a month whilst you're working out at sea. 

[00:10:37] Kyle Risi: So can I just get this straight then? So let's say you clock off and you're done for the day. are you just inside your same suit under the water or are you going to some kind of chamber where it's dry, you have a bed, you've got a toilet, etc?

[00:10:51] Adam Cox: Yeah, of course. So the chambers that you would go in to begin with, they're the size of like small vans. They're about two meters [00:11:00] high. You'd be up in the middle. In there for up to 28 days at a time, and sometimes with up to 12 people. There's different rooms, so there's a living quarters, a lounge area, a place where you might do some paperwork, a toilet, a shower.

[00:11:10] You sleep inches away from the next person, so you don't have any privacy, and you're constantly monitored by cameras 24 7, 

[00:11:17] what are they monitoring for? Well, I guess your health and things like that. Right, checking your vitals. Yeah, so you could be in the shower and they've got a camera in there. 

[00:11:25] Kyle Risi: Oh, nice. Yeah. Lovely. So you wave to the people. You have no privacy whatsoever. Nope. And obviously you're stuck. Excellent. God forbid you be claustrophobic, this is not the job for you.

[00:11:34] Absolutely not. And I guess it makes sense that they need to keep monitoring you. I guess they are checking for the pressure inside the cabin as well, and the effects that it's having on you. I did hear this really horrific story, and it might be one that we potentially revisit, but it's kind of similar to this, where this decompression diver was living inside one of these kind of chambers, and it malfunctioned, which meant that One of the [00:12:00] portholes that allow you to then exit out because you've got to go through one door, shut that, then it equalizes with the water that's down on the ocean floor, then you can open that door.

[00:12:08] That had malfunctioned and what had happened is there was this catastrophic incident where just everything that was on the other side of the door got sucked out and it was through an opening the size of like a golf ball and the people got sucked through that hole. They all died. 

[00:12:25] Adam Cox: I don't even know what to say about that.

[00:12:26] Kyle Risi: It's horrible. Dude, the size of a golf ball. 

[00:12:29] we have a sense of what he does, who he is, why he's down there, and how he's living his day to day life when he's not physically out there on the seabed fixing these pipes.

[00:12:40] Adam Cox: Yeah, exactly. And You know, to sign up to this job, like you say, you can't be claustrophobic. You do get, I think, around about 1, 500 on a diving day. So that seems pretty good, but there's a lot of risks with this job. 

[00:12:51] Kyle Risi: Of course, any job that is high risk is going to be paying really well, right? 

[00:12:54] Adam Cox: Yeah.

[00:12:55] Kyle Risi: And a lot of the jobs said, are like in the oil and gas industry, they do pay extremely well because A, [00:13:00] you're out there on the North Sea. Anything could happen . 

[00:13:02] Adam Cox: So Chris he was pretty used to these conditions. Like I say, he, didn't start out as a diver, but over time it became a career that seemed to suit him.

[00:13:09] He was used to being away from his fiancee Morag weeks at a time. 

[00:13:13] Kyle Risi: Morag? Morag, yeah. Is he 

[00:13:14] Adam Cox: Scottish? He is not, but she is. 

[00:13:16] Kyle Risi: Ah, see, my, my auntie was called Morag. 

[00:13:19] Adam Cox: It's a nice name. Is it? I always think of a, and no offence to your auntie, or neither Morag Chris's fiance, but I do just think of a cow, a big hairy cow called Morag.

[00:13:30] Kyle Risi: Yeah, I see where you're coming from, we can't really say that so we'll whisper this, you know. 

[00:13:35] Adam Cox: Morag and Heffy. It's just really nice names for a cow. Yeah. Yeah, anyway. So they'd be away weeks at a time. And in order to keep in touch, they would send like video diaries back and forth to each other, like having a chat, how their day's going and things like that.

[00:13:51] And he could only do that when he's not in the chambers. When he's in the chamber, he has to resort to just like email communication to her. But when he's just on the boat, whilst they're out at sea, they would like send [00:14:00] video diaries back and forth. 

[00:14:01] Kyle Risi: Oh God, so when he is coming out of the chamber and spending those five days decompression, going up to the surface, getting onto the boat, he's not then going home.

[00:14:09] He's staying on the boat waiting for his next shift. 

[00:14:11] Adam Cox: Potentially, yeah, like I say, you're away a long time. 

[00:14:14] Kyle Risi: I don't know what's worse. Would I grumble more at being stuck on a boat in the North Sea? or would I prefer to be down under even though there's more risk there, but it's probably more comfortable You know, you're not rocking in the wind with all the swells.

[00:14:27] Adam Cox: Yeah or on the boat I think it's actually quite nice because he does a bit of a video tour and they've got things like a sauna a Sunbed really and other sort of like gyms and stuff like that So you can have like a relatively normal life when you're on the boat, but as soon as you go into that chamber It's obviously a different story.

[00:14:42] Kyle Risi: Sure, I get it. 

[00:14:43] Adam Cox: Yeah, and so Morag herself, she was actually a school teacher, together, Chris and her, they were building a life filled with, lots of plans for the future.

[00:14:51] They'd met five years earlier at a party. And they kind of really hit it off. They moved in together. And he started becoming a saturation diver, where [00:15:00] she continued to be a teacher. She became a headteacher. And they decided that actually what they wanted to do was build a house.

[00:15:05] As well as get married. So whilst Chris is away at sea, he would come back and help with the building of this house that they were doing in Scotland, as well as planning this wedding. 

[00:15:14] Kyle Risi: pretty good going for a, for a teacher. a cow to achieve all of that, right?

[00:15:20] And when he's off, like, when he comes back home, he's like, Hey there, morag! Spread your legs, the lassie! I'm gonna be milking ya!

[00:15:28] Adam Cox: She seems like a really nice woman, by the 

[00:15:30] Kyle Risi: way. Oh, and by the way, before we get into any jokes Does Chris survive? Or is that a big spoiler? Because I need to know, can I take a piss? Or do we need to be like, this is really serious? Or is it just not part of the flavor of this? This is supposed to be a big twist.

[00:15:47] I don't want to 

[00:15:48] Adam Cox: spoil it, but we can have a joke along the way. 

[00:15:50] Kyle Risi: a joke. Great. So Morag, Morag the cow is fine. Even though she's a really nice lady. 

[00:15:56] Adam Cox: Anyways, back to Chris. He's on board the ship. It's called the [00:16:00] Topaz. He's giving a sort of video tour to Morag to kind of show her around the ship. And he sort of shows what the sort of diving bell is. And so this is kind of a really crucial part to help divers go down to the sea level. It's a bit like an underwater elevator.

[00:16:14] But instead of going just up and down, it's pressurized as well. So like the chambers. and it drops the divers, they go onto the diving bell, go right down to the bottom of the water, they then can swim out, do whatever work they are stopping 

[00:16:25] Kyle Risi: along the way because this is the thing that's stopping them periodically to help them 

[00:16:29] Adam Cox: No, because the diving bell is at the same pressure as the bottom of the ocean. 

[00:16:33] Kyle Risi: Oh, so they decompress while they're on the ship? 

[00:16:35] Adam Cox: Yeah, they're on the ship so the chambers are contained on the ship, in the middle of the ship. Then within the chamber is the diving bell. All of this is the same level of pressure to match where they are diving to , so the diving bell gets lowered to the bottom of the ocean, which allows the divers

[00:16:50] to go out, they do their work for six hours, they go back to the diving bell, and that hoists them back up to the chamber, where they then carry on their evening go to sleep, before the next day when they have to go and [00:17:00] do another shift. 

[00:17:01] Kyle Risi: Right, wow, okay, wow, this is so fascinating.

[00:17:03] Adam Cox: There's nearly 100 people aboard this ship. But when you go down in the diving bell, there's just like a few of you. And so they become almost like your family. And so you have to get on with them. And be able to kind of work really well with them

[00:17:15] So Chris's crew when he goes diving is made up of three others including a guy called Dave. He's another diver who's more experienced than Chris, a medic called Stuart and a guy called Duncan who is the bell man.

[00:17:25] So he's the one that stays on board the diving bell and he communicates to Dave and Chris while they're on the seabed and kind of as a bit of the bridge between I guess the divers. and the diving bell and then also to the ship. 

[00:17:37] Kyle Risi: I guess like when he meets anyone and they go, Hey, so what are you doing? He goes, I'm a bell man. Like straight away, that's the kind of professional way you're going to be like, but I need to tell you more. Yeah. Because otherwise your first mind is like, Oh, he's, he's the nun with the bell in Game of Thrones is going shame, shame.

[00:17:53] Yeah. It's a lot more than that.

[00:17:54] Adam Cox: So once you're in the chamber, the door shuts, the first thing that happens is your voice goes all high pitched because [00:18:00] the gas they use is called heliox, which is a mixture of helium and oxygen.

[00:18:04] And Chris says that whilst it's kind of funny at first, the novelty of having a squeaky voice quickly wears off, especially if you're down or in this chamber for like 28 days.

[00:18:12] . All is going to plan, but on September the 18th, 2012, it was Chris, Duncan, and Dave's turn to dive with Stuart on standby as the medic.

[00:18:20] Chris and his dive partner Dave were tasked with replacing a section of underwater pipe work. Chris and Dave suit up. 

[00:18:26] Chris pulls on his wetsuit. He pulls on his helmet, which is like a Kevlar dome weighing about 20 kilos. It's complete with a light and a camera on top so they can see his movements and obviously to light up what he's going to be working on. Of course he's got his umbilical cord, which is his lifeline And so he climbs into the diving bell, they go down, and then he's out into the water and then starts working on his his mission with Dave.

[00:18:48] On this particular day at 2am the conditions were particularly rough there was a 35 knot wind and five meter swells in the ocean, so it's incredibly choppy, which was not ideal, but it's [00:19:00] not unusual for this kind of work, it's not severe enough to call it off It is a North 

[00:19:03] Kyle Risi: Sea, right, 

[00:19:04] Adam Cox: as well, so It's probably, Pretty standard. Pretty standard. 

[00:19:06] Kyle Risi: Pretty 

[00:19:06] Adam Cox: pretty. And when divers, diversgo down to the seabed, the ship relies on a system called dynamic positioning or dp, which uses computer algorithms and thrusters to keep the ship steady over a specific point on the seabed. Yes, sure. So they don't just use an anchor.

[00:19:20] They have a, you know, technology in the computer system that keeps it still. 

[00:19:23] Kyle Risi: And is that because the North Sea is just too deep to anchor something down? But then I guess with an anchor you can still drift. Exactly. They need a very precise location to stay at, right? 

[00:19:33] Adam Cox: because they've they've lowered the diving bell, which is down there for six hours, and they can't just be drifting around in the water.

[00:19:39] They've got to keep that still for the divers and so it's, yeah, a combination of, probably it could be too deep in certain instances, And the other thing to make sure that it's, it's critical that they stay in the exact same spot as much as possible 

[00:19:53] Kyle Risi: . And why is that? Is that because the diving bell is connected to the ship?

[00:19:57] Yeah. And therefore they need to [00:20:00] stay very close or just above that diving bell because that's how they can get oxygen and water check off all the vitals and things like that. 

[00:20:07] Adam Cox: Yeah. Cause if you think about it, you've got the ship, you've got the diving bell, which is underneath like an elevator, it goes straight down.

[00:20:13] And then if that ship starts to drift and then. connected to the diver bell are the divers , then , they're just going to get pulled along in the water. Oh, shit. 

[00:20:19] Kyle Risi: Yeah. 

[00:20:20] Adam Cox: So they have to keep still for them to do their work. With you. So Chris and Dave, they're carrying out their work, and then all of a sudden they hear an alarm go off via their communication channel.

[00:20:29] But Chris and Dave didn't think too much of it because alarms were kind of routine part of life. There's all these different tests and checks constantly going on that trigger them. So to them this was pretty standard

[00:20:39] But then when Duncan the dive supervisor spoke calmly there was a subtle shift in his tone that Chris immediately picked up on his voice. That'll do it. Yeah, he was kind of like, that doesn't. Sound like normal Duncan. 

[00:20:51] Kyle Risi: What's up, Duncan? Nothing. 

[00:20:52] Adam Cox: I just dropped my croissant. Everything's fine.

[00:20:54] Just yeah He basically said to them you just leave what you're doing and just come back to the diving belt. He's trying to keep him [00:21:00] calm basically Yeah,

[00:21:01] and the thing is on a dive things do break things need resetting And so it's not like it's uncommon for them to get called back. So they just put down their tools and they then start making their way back to the diving bell. However, they're in this sort of structure at the moment so they're not, they don't have like a clear sight of the diving bell which usually has a light on it so they can kind of see really easily where they need to head to.

[00:21:24] So they kind of climb back up onto this structure which they've been working on underneath at the bottom of the ocean and they look and they go, where is the diving bell? Because usually it's 50 meters away on this sort of umbilical cord. Shit, they've drifted! Yeah, exactly. And they're like, Oh, shit.

[00:21:40] them, the only thing that they can do is like, they're going to have to like swim along their umbilical cord, kind of pulling themselves in. 

[00:21:46] Kyle Risi: And I imagine it's pitch black, right? 

[00:21:48] Adam Cox: It's pitch black. So where, where the hell they are. Good job. They've got their umbilical cord. Exactly. That's why it's a lifeline.

[00:21:54] And for them, the reality is sort of set in that actually, yeah, the ship had drifted . So [00:22:00] something had gone wrong there was a catastrophic failure with the dynamic positioning system. 

[00:22:04] And because you had these waves of like five metres , the ship essentially started drifting into the ocean.

[00:22:10] . So that wasn't supposed happen because the system had multiple backups to ensure that it could never fail. But on this occasion, it failed. All those backups also failed.

[00:22:19] Oh god.

[00:22:20] So Chris and Dave, they're scrambling back towards the bell using their umbilicals as a guide to reel themselves in. Now there's usually a fair amount of slack for them to easily kind of move around the bottom of the ocean, but for some reason, Chris's umbilical was unusually tight. So Duncan back on the bell said to Chris, you need to give your umbilical more slack, because it's, it's, it's too taut.

[00:22:40] It's been 

[00:22:41] Kyle Risi: snagged. 

[00:22:41] Adam Cox: Yeah, and the umbilical cord which goes all the way to the diving bell, and is attached to the diving bell with bolts . Yeah. And the strain on the umbilical, is starting to kind of pull the bolts off the wall. It's like groaning. So it's almost like, It's snagged on something, and because it's snagged and the ship is drifting, [00:23:00] the two things are kind of pulling in the opposite direction.

[00:23:03] Kyle Risi: And it's turning a bolt. 

[00:23:04] Adam Cox: It's pulling the bolts off the wall because it's too tight, and that's why Duncan's like, you need to give it some more slack, something's going to break, because actually, Duncan's in danger because that whole wall could cave in.

[00:23:16] So Chris is trying to remain calm. He spots his lifeline was caught on a jagged metal part of the structure. And that's what was causing this issue. So Chris is doing his best to try and like loosen it up and kind of get away from it, but it just wasn't happening because of the way that the ship was drifting off into the ocean.

[00:23:34] And, you know, that's like an eight, thousand ton ship or something, there's no way that Chris could easily maneuver himself away to kind of get free. Dave tries to help Chris, but his umbilical won't stretch any further. And Dave is literally two meters away from Chris when he's yanked further away.

[00:23:51] And all he can do is look at Chris as Dave's being pulled back into the ocean. And Chris is like, I can't, I can't move, I can't get out of this [00:24:00] situation. And his umbilical is creaking. It's like, it's making a sound that, you know, any minute now it's gonna snap and then it does. 

[00:24:08] Kyle Risi: It's, oh, it 

[00:24:08] snaps.

[00:24:10] So he can't see Duncan and his umbilical cord is snapped. It's pitch black. What is trapped there? 

[00:24:17] Adam Cox: Communication is lost to Chris completely. His electricity is gone, so he has no light. He has no oxygen. He has no hot water, keeping him warm. This is it, .

[00:24:27] Kyle Risi: So what does that mean?

[00:24:29] Adam Cox: He does have a little gas canister, as kind of an emergency oxygen supply, which gives you around about five to ten minutes, so should something happen, you take this canister, you connect that up, and that gives you just enough time To swim back 

[00:24:40] Kyle Risi: to the bell! 

[00:24:40] Adam Cox: Yeah. But 

[00:24:41] There's no bell.

[00:24:42] Duncan obviously didn't know what's happened, and he's kind of, he's reeling in Chris's umbilical cord as quickly as he can, but he realizes something isn't right. This, this, this feels different. There's no weight on the end of it. He radios to the ship, I've lost my diver. And he's, trying to keep calm, but he's really [00:25:00] concerned about Chris because they don't have long to get him back.

[00:25:03] It's been about five minutes since the umbilical cord was cut. Stuart, the medic, is called up to be on standby, and meanwhile on the main boat, the team are doing everything they can to fix that DP system. But because all the backups had failed, they can't do anything to turn it on, and it's extremely unusual.

[00:25:18] So it means the ship needs to be moved manually and be held into place by someone like guiding the controls themselves, which is not easy to do. It's like a two person job. And so they do their best to try and get the ship closer to where Chris is. 

[00:25:33] Kyle Risi: And the problem there, by doing that manually, is that on the ocean surface, it's not just that the waves are pushing you left or right.

[00:25:41] You've got all sorts of things. You've got something called heave, which means that you're going up. and down you've got pitch where it means that the front of the boat's going up and then going down and then you've got the back of the end that's going up and down you've also got sideways drift forward drift like where the waves are pushing you forward so you've got like a three [00:26:00] dimensional area where you are getting forces from all different directions

[00:26:03] So having to do that manually, it's freaking hard, I'm assuming. So you rely on these automatic, dynamic systems to kind of keep you in position, pushing you into the right place. 

[00:26:15] Adam Cox: this is a two person job, because they've both got their hands. on different controls trying to keep it in a position or like you say trying to at least keep it steady.

[00:26:22] Kyle Risi: Adjust the heave, adjust the, yeah, the pressure from the sides, everything. 

[00:26:26] Adam Cox: So the guys on the ship, they're doing everything they can. It's now 10 minutes since the umbilical was cut. So this is at the point when Chris's emergency canister runs out . 

[00:26:36] Kyle Risi: And he's definitely engaged that, has he?

[00:26:38] Adam Cox: That's the first thing you would do. Otherwise he'd be dead. Yeah. But at the moment it's come up to 10 minutes. If he's still got it, there's not much time left. the crew realizes this. know that actually he's now out of oxygen.

[00:26:49] So they, they send out a ROV, a remote operated vehicle, which has a camera and a light attached to it. So they can see if they can find Chris, see what he's doing, see if he's okay. if they can [00:27:00] find him, they at least know where they need to go to and steer the ship. But the realization is This might not be a rescue.

[00:27:06] It might be a body recovery. So the crew direct the ROV towards the structure where Chris was, but spotting Chris in complete darkness is not going to be easy. They don't know if he's on the seabed, the structure that they were working on, and so trying to find him and not get lost, that's going to be pretty difficult.

[00:27:23] the picture being sent back to the ship is just cloudy and murky. This mission was too long to try and find him. Then the structure eventually appears and not too long after that, part of the umbilical cord that belonged to Chris is also there. So there is some hope.

[00:27:38] Kyle Risi: I guess the umbilical cord could be pointing in the direction, potentially where Chris was. Use as a potential clue. 

[00:27:44] Adam Cox: Exactly. So the ROV follows that umbilical cord to the top of the structure. 

[00:27:49] Kyle Risi: clever. 

[00:27:50] Adam Cox: I'm so smart. And they're on screen. Uh Huh. there is some relief by the crew, but Chris is laying down.

[00:27:59] He's pretty [00:28:00] still, there is some movement, but is that just the ocean's current moving Chris's lifeless body? 

[00:28:06] Kyle Risi: Wow. 

[00:28:07] Adam Cox: The crew are still trying to get the ship closer to allow Dave to go recover Chris, but the DP is not coming back online and doing it manually so far is just not working. Suddenly, one of the crew catches a small wave from Chris.

[00:28:20] He's alive. A WAVE! They don't know how. 

[00:28:23] Kyle Risi: Hi guys! 

[00:28:24] Adam Cox: You see, he's waving to the camera, the ROV, and he's like saying, yep, I'm here, I'm still alive. But they have no idea, they're like, how is this even possible? Because it's been over 10 minutes. 

[00:28:34] But then something else happens. Chris's body starts to twitch.

[00:28:40] And for the guys that are watching this, they're like. Is he dying? Are they watching him die 

[00:28:45] Kyle Risi: Okay. 

[00:28:46] Adam Cox: It's now 20 minutes since the umbilical cord was cut. 

[00:28:49] Chris is now still. Another five minutes go by and the ship still wasn't close enough to allow Dave to go back to recover Chris.

[00:28:56] Okay. The crew have tried everything and then as a [00:29:00] last resort they decide to do a hard reboot of the system. which in effect is turn it off and turn it on again. 

[00:29:07] Kyle Risi: it on again, yeah. 

[00:29:08] Adam Cox: And. It works. 

[00:29:09] Kyle Risi: Oh God, that's what you should have done. That's why every IT technician says have you turned it on and off again?

[00:29:16] And we always lie. We always go, yeah, yeah, we have, we have, I need to come down here. So, oh, so they come down, they turn it on, they turn it off and it works. And you look like an absolute twat. Yeah. In this instance, they turn it on and they turn 

[00:29:28] Adam Cox: it off again. And the thing is, they waited 25 minutes to do this.

[00:29:31] I know. But, you might be thinking, why did they take so long? So apparently there is some rationale for this, because what happened so far was pretty unprecedented in terms of all these backup systems failing. So the crew didn't want to restart the system while they had a level of control of the boat, and they worried if they had turned it off and then tried to reboot it, they could lose everything.

[00:29:52] Right. So at this point it was kind of, this is the last ditch attempt. 

[00:29:55] Kyle Risi: 25 minutes later. 

[00:29:56] Adam Cox: Hmm. 

[00:29:57] Kyle Risi: I mean that should be your last ditch attempt at like [00:30:00] 10 minutes later when his oxygen started running out. Probably. But that's pretty incredible. So if you only had 10 minutes worth of oxygen that must just be an estimate, right?

[00:30:09] He must have been able to kind of get some more oxygen out there. Or maybe he was really clever and just slowed down his breathing. 

[00:30:16] Adam Cox: Yeah, we'll come on to what happened. 

[00:30:17] Kyle Risi: I'm so smart. 

[00:30:18] Adam Cox: So the DP system is now back online and the ship is maneuvering back into place to allow Dave to head back out to sea.

[00:30:24] to the structure to most likely get Chris's body. Dave heads out into the water. It's about 30 minutes after the incident when Dave sees the lights from the ROV and now he has a rough idea where Chris is. Dave makes his way over to the ROV and on top of that structure, he sees Chris and Chris is not moving.

[00:30:42] So Dave just assumes the worst and you know, he's got a job to do and that's what he needs to focus on. putting his emotions aside. He takes Chris back to the diving bell, but it's not easy carrying that level of weight in the conditions that, you know, that they were in. It was pretty tough. So he picks him up and [00:31:00] Duncan's there helping to reel him in and they get Chris back to the bell.

[00:31:04] It's about 36 minutes since the umbilical cord was cut. Duncan pulls off Chris's helmet. His face is blue. Duncan lays him down and gives him two breaths of air to the mouth. And just like that, Chris comes to. 

[00:31:17] Kyle Risi: Really? 

[00:31:17] Adam Cox: Yeah. 

[00:31:18] Kyle Risi: Wow. 

[00:31:18] Adam Cox: Duncan doesn't quite believe it, because two breaths is all it took. 

[00:31:22] Kyle Risi: I didn't think I was that hot.

[00:31:24] I didn't think Chris was that attractive to me. Am I 

[00:31:26] Adam Cox: that good? Chris was alive against all odds. He had survived without oxygen at the bottom of the sea for over 20 minutes. The North Sea 

[00:31:35] Kyle Risi: like, 

[00:31:36] All the stinky water's getting in my lungs. 

[00:31:38] Adam Cox: Yeah, it's kind of gross. The rest of the crew don't believe what they're seeing and they're just so happy that they see Chris, he's sitting up, he's talking, and they're like, how is he in such a good condition?

[00:31:49] So for Chris, he remembers most of it quite clearly. He recalls the moment the umbilical snapped, causing him to fall backward and sinking to the bottom of the seabed. 

[00:31:59] Kyle Risi: Oh, [00:32:00] like a like a Jack from the Titanic moment. I guess so, yeah. Where like, she has to let him go and you just seem like disappearing into the abyss.

[00:32:08] Adam Cox: He's on top of the structure at this point and then yeah, it snaps, he gets hurled backwards, and he makes his way to his feet, but remember he doesn't have a light anymore, so he's now got to try and work out, well, Which way do I go? 

[00:32:20] Kyle Risi: Yeah, and also what weighs up?

[00:32:22] Adam Cox: Because for him he thinks, well actually if I get on top of the structure, that's probably the best place that they'll be able to find me. Yes. But he can't see anything. He puts his arms out and he can't feel anything. So he just has to make the best guess of moving forward.

[00:32:37] But think about it. He could just be walking into the middle of the ocean and to his death. 

[00:32:41] Kyle Risi: And just by the sheer chance he's picked a decent direction that they would be able to find him. 

[00:32:45] Adam Cox: Pretty much. He kind of thinks, okay, well, I'll try this way. So he puts his arms out and he kind of.

[00:32:51] feeling around and then he comes across the structure which is pretty lucky and so for him he's like well at least I've found this and he [00:33:00] starts to kind of pull himself up onto that structure.

[00:33:04] When he finally reaches the top of it he looks up and I guess he's expecting to see the glow of the bell or a sight of Dave but nothing all he can see is just that pitch black and there is this eerie silence. Normally he can hear the distant hum of the ship's thrusters.

[00:33:20] And so I guess it starts to hit him that this could be it. this was probably death for him. 

[00:33:25] Kyle Risi: Yeah. 

[00:33:26] Adam Cox: He quickly calculated in his mind, it took him about three or four minutes to climb up. And even if Dave had been waiting there to take him back to the bell, his emergency gas supply was probably too low to get him back to the diving bell safely.

[00:33:38] Chris realized there was not much else he could do. He regulated his breathing and fought to stay calm as best as possible. Strangely, as the hopelessness of the situation became clear, a kind of peace washed over him. Oh, he was 

[00:33:51] Kyle Risi: accepting it, was he? 

[00:33:52] Adam Cox: Yeah, the fight or flight panic kind of drained away, and his body seemed to just Except the inevitable.

[00:33:58] Kyle Risi: But what about Morag? 

[00:33:59] Adam Cox: [00:34:00] he did think, of life flashing before his eyes, as that kind of tends to do when you're in this sort of situation. He thought of Morag, his fiancée. He thought of the house that he wouldn't get to see finished. He thought of his parents, his friends, his family.

[00:34:11] And I guess for him, he felt bad for the grief that he was going to cause his family. And that's kind of what was thinking in those moments.

[00:34:19] That's really sad. So with nothing left in his control, Chris just waited alone in the darkness for whatever would come next. His emergency gas canister is about to run out, so this is it. Chris said that the word miracle feels a bit too abstract or out there. He, he thought like a miracle, could that really happen to him?

[00:34:37] But even he has to admit that what happened next felt something extraordinary. He doesn't remember being pulled back or being rescued by Dave as such. Kind of the next thing he remembers is being on the diving bell with Duncan . And he had spent about 35 to 40 minutes with no source of air.

[00:34:54] Chris assumed his survival had tied to the extreme cold. He had heard stories of children falling [00:35:00] through ice in Scandinavia and their bodies entering a near stasis state. Slowing their oxygen consumption to the point of survival. And then hospitals used a similar technique during open heart surgery, calling patients bodies and blood to near hibernation.

[00:35:13] Essentially, with the heat supply removed from his suit, his body was able to go into this hibernation mode. But even with that explanation, Chris's survival didn't entirely add up. Another possible explanation lies in the gas he was breathing. So saturation divers use a helium oxygen mix, and in Chris's case, just 6 percent oxygen.

[00:35:32] And so while that concentration could be really harmful on the surface, at the bottom of the sea, with that pressure, it's the equivalent to breathing a high percentage of oxygen. And so the theory is that oxygen saturation flooded Chris's tissues, providing just enough to sustain him during those crucial minutes.

[00:35:50] Kyle Risi: Yeah, sure. Cool. I mean, all of those explanations sound quite plausible to me. We haven't touched upon angels? It could have been angels, you're right, [00:36:00] yeah. Jennifer Aniston would be very proud of it. 

[00:36:02] Adam Cox: But I think for some people what they can't believe is that there's no like brain damage or any lasting physical effects without that level of oxygen he heard.

[00:36:11] So, Oh, so he's not brain damaged? No, nothing. He is literally back to normal within a few hours. Thanks for watching! 

[00:36:17] Kyle Risi: Damn, 

[00:36:18] Adam Cox: so he still wrestles with that word that it's a miracle that he's alive, but you can't argue the facts because he survived against all odds. What he's quick to emphasise though, is the role of teamwork. On the Topaz, every person was a vital cog in his survival. Well, not the people who took 

[00:36:36] Kyle Risi: 36 minutes to reset the bloody system! 

[00:36:39] Adam Cox: I mean, they could have been a bit quicker. Ah, you think? But the immediate people around him, like Duncan and Dave , that was kind of a proper team effort to get him back one way or another.

[00:36:51] remove just one of those people and the outcome could have been very different. For Stu, the medic on board the Topaz, the moment Chris was brought into the chamber was one [00:37:00] of, , huge relief. Chris was alive, he was breathing, and aside from needing some warming up and some rest, he was, he's absolutely fine.

[00:37:07] So Stuart sat with him, taking his pulse, keeping a close eye on him as Chris sort of half dozed in and out, sort of finally relaxing. Then Chris opened his eyes and looked at Stu and he said, Stu, do you know, it's okay. And Stuart smiled, thinking, yeah, I know you're okay. But then Chris shook his head, he went, no, no, no, it's okay, he repeated.

[00:37:26] Kyle Risi: What's he talking about? 

[00:37:27] Adam Cox: I was just drifting off to sleep. I was kind of sad for a bit, but then I was cold, and I got a bit numb. But then, I was just falling asleep. 

[00:37:35] Kyle Risi: Is he talking about coming to terms with him dying? 

[00:37:38] Adam Cox: Yeah, he said, it's not that bad. And in that moment, it hit Stu, like, really heavily.

[00:37:44] Because I think, You know, obviously he's very lucky to be alive, but he realized that Chris was sort of recounting his death experience or his near death experience and to be alone in that darkness, Chris had accepted his fate and for Stuart, it was kind of, yeah, it was kind [00:38:00] of really, emotional moment for him to hear Chris say that he was ready to die.

[00:38:04] Kyle Risi: Yeah, and I think, you know, It's incredible that he's managed to stay so calm throughout this entire process anyway. And I think if he hadn't have come to terms with the fact that he was going to die, he may have panicked more, it may have intensified his breathing, and he wouldn't have survived. Yeah, isn't that crazy?

[00:38:23] Adam Cox: Yeah, the way that he was able to control his breathing and keep calm and emotions, probably helped, yeah, prolong his survival time. 

[00:38:31] Kyle Risi: it gives you that reassurance that when you are close to the end, that actually, it is possible that it could be quite peaceful, obviously depending on how you go.

[00:38:39] Adam Cox: I think that's what Chris was saying, like dying hadn't felt scary, it just felt Okay. 

[00:38:44] Kyle Risi: It's just okay. . 

[00:38:45] Adam Cox: And that is the incredible survival story, and I will say miracle, of Chris Lemon's almost last breath at the bottom of the ocean.

[00:38:52] Wow. That's crazy. 

[00:38:55] Kyle Risi: And how's he doing today? Like, is he still doing okay? doing saturation [00:39:00] diving. Well, 

[00:39:01] Adam Cox: if you thought that he had been put off by his near death experience, then think again. Yeah. God. Because I think within a few weeks he was back out there. Shut up. With Duncan and Dave. 

[00:39:11] Kyle Risi: I'm assuming you didn't tell Morag about 

[00:39:13] Adam Cox: Morag knew, she was a little bit concerned. You think? But I think what. 

[00:39:17] Kyle Risi: she's 

[00:39:18] Adam Cox: probably 

[00:39:18] Kyle Risi: like, Do you know what? That 1, 500 check, every time you dive , that I'm going to do things with that. 

[00:39:24] Adam Cox: I'm going to get a nice kitchen with that. But I think what all of them realized is actually the equipment, they had so much trust in that and the people on board that ship, if anything, they felt like safer with that team.

[00:39:38]

[00:39:38] Kyle Risi: Because they're camaraderie. Yeah. Because 

[00:39:40] Adam Cox: they're trust, right? Exactly. So he had no. Worries about going out, at least initially. I think he's looked back on it since, and said, You know what, ten years on from this, whatever, you know, I definitely don't want to do that again.

[00:39:52] Kyle Risi: And 

[00:39:52] Adam Cox: so Morag, er, They finished the house, they moved to France, they got married, they've got their happy ending. And so, yeah, all's [00:40:00] well and ends well. 

[00:40:01] Kyle Risi: Wow, where did you hear about this story? 

[00:40:03] Adam Cox: Well there's a Netflix documentary called Last Breath which has actual recorded footage of the disaster.

[00:40:09] Really? So you get to see Chris, , on his own and waving. To the ROV . So it's pretty fascinating to watch that. And his survival story has now caught the attention of Hollywood. And there's a film out in the cinema starring Fin Cole, who was in Peaky Blinders. also Woody Harrelson. He's playing Duncan. No, 

[00:40:26] Kyle Risi: hang on. Woody Harson is the guide from Hunger Games. Right. 

[00:40:31] Adam Cox: Yeah, and he's been in Cheers. He's been in loads of things. 

[00:40:33] Kyle Risi: yeah. Oh cool, what a great cast. 

[00:40:35] Adam Cox: Yeah, so they're starring in the movie called Last Breath, and that is out on the 28th of February.

[00:40:40] Oh, about now! What, is it on Netflix? No, this is in the cinema, this one. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah, so it'll be interesting to see how Hollywood does their take on this survival story. Yeah, yeah.

[00:40:48] Kyle Risi: I wonder if they do include, like, that Jack moment, where he kind of just drifts into the abyss, you know what I mean? Mm hmm. Where like, the umbilical cord gets snapped, and then he starts drifting away, and then he kind of [00:41:00] just fades into nothing? 

[00:41:01] Adam Cox: Possibly. 

[00:41:02] Kyle Risi: That would make a great shot. 

[00:41:03] Adam Cox: I did watch the trailer, I can't remember if it was in that, but what I had noticed is, because they're in these decompression chambers and everything, they didn't have their squeaky voices.

[00:41:11] Oh no. So I thought, oh, they probably cut that out, because for like a two hour movie, which was supposed to be quite serious. That wouldn't have been that great. 

[00:41:18] Kyle Risi: Yes, it wouldn't be great, right? It'd be difficult to take things seriously. 

[00:41:22] Adam Cox: some creative license 

[00:41:23] Kyle Risi: It's like when they film any films that are in space, right?

[00:41:27] A lot of the time, they're like, do you know what? We don't have budget for de gravitizing everything. So we're just going to make up some excuse to say, like, There's no gravity. Yeah, or either there's this weird chip on board that just like you turn it on and just like then It's just like being on the 

[00:41:43] Adam Cox: ground.

[00:41:43] Yeah, we don't budget for 

[00:41:45] Kyle Risi: yeah, 

[00:41:45] Adam Cox: those kind of effects. 

[00:41:47] Kyle Risi: Nice. Shall we run the outro? Let's do it. 

[00:41:50] Adam Cox: And that brings us to the end of another fascinating foray into the compendium and assembly of fascinating things We hope you enjoyed the ride as much as we did. 

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