The real-life drama of the North Sea diver who cheated certain death

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Stephen Applebaum tells the story of Chris Lemons, left trapped without oxygen for half an hour on the seabed, and the rescue bid mounted by his colleagues in what is diving’s most dangerous industry

As compelling as the story is the insight the documentary provides into the unique world of saturation diving: the kind used to get men – and it is only men doing “sat work” in the North Sea at the moment, Yuasa believes – into places you normally wouldn’t be able to with conventional diving. For this reason, it is “the highest paid kind of diving you can do,” he says. “It’s quite a mercenary industry. Most of us, we’re in it to make the money and get out, really.

 

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