This underwater of Deepsea was cut off from its air offer for half an hour. Survived

Chris Lemons states that the day of the accident that would almost say that his life began like any other.

“It was a normal day in the office,” said Lemons The currentMatt Galloway.

For him, “the office” was the bottom of the ocean, where he spent six hours every day working as a saturation underwater that served offshore oil platforms. The saturation divers live for days to weeks at a time in pressurized rooms to remain at the same very extreme pressure that exists in the lower part of the ocean.

This particular work found it in the middle of the North Sea, working on a large structure called multiple variety to remove a section of the pipeline of about 100 meters below the surface.

The lemons were inside the multiple when the alarms began to suffocate on its communication line on the main ship. The supervisor under the command of the three people’s diving team told Lemons and his colleagues to return immediately to the bell of diving-a piece of equipment attached to the ship that transports the crew between the boat and the bottom of the ocean.

“You could only say from the tone of his voice that this was something enough … serious,” said Lemons. “I don’t remember having really calculated what was going on, but it could be said that something was in progress.”

Topside, a malfunction in the ship’s computer system had lost control of the captains. Huge waves and twenty made the ship out of course, effectively dragging the immersion bell and divers, which are attached to the bell by a 45 -meter “umbilical cord” that provides them with heat and breathable air.

In the chaotic moments that came later, the umbilical cord of Lemons broke, leaving him blocked without air. In the end he lost consciousness and was without oxygen for about half an hour – but for a confluence of lucky breaks, good formation and science, he went so far away.

Since then, dramatic history has been transformed into a documentary and, more recently, a film called Last breathRemoved by Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole and Cliff Curtis.

Air score on the bottom of the ocean

Lemons was working under water with his colleague, David Yuasa, at the time of the sweating of the alarms. Both men were able to swim out of the variety, but the lemons quickly realized that his cord had crowded on a section of the variety and was unable to free himself.

The stubborn underwater felt the tension grow on the cable and growing while the ship continued to drift in the rough swelling above him.

“Suddenly … I would have become an anchor, in essence, to an 8,000 tons ship,” said Lemons. “And of course there will be only a winner in that situation.”

Yuasa saw the lemons that fought and tried to swim again towards him. But Yuasa has reached the end of her short lemon cable. The two divers shared one last glance in front of the boat still out of control, he pulled via Yuasa by his colleague and in the darkness of the deep water of the sea.

Alone, Lemons says that his umbilical cord in constant evolution has started to give in. He opened the valve to a reserve tank brought to the back. The reserve would help lemons to breathe for another eight or nine minutes, he says, even if he knew he would be in trouble later.

Lemons’ umbilical cord finally triggered under the pressure as “a rifle that goes off,” he recalls. The force dropped from the top of the variety, a few meters to the bottom of the bottom of the ocean.

He says he knows that his life was “on a watch” at that point.

Watch: Trailer of the film based on the experience of Lemons:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snmyoooxzztm

Consumed by panic, the lone underwater has returned above the structure of the oil in the dark field and sifted the surface for the boat. It wasn’t seen anywhere.

At that fundamental moment, Lemons says he understood that nobody was around to save him – and saving himself was not an option.

“This had a strangely calming effect, I think, knowing that I couldn’t do much to help myself,” said Lemons. “I resigned myself quite quickly to the fact that it would probably be … the place where I died.”

The lemons spread in the fetal position at the top of the structure, where he knew he had the best chances of being found by Yuasa if they were to turn again for him.

In what he thought they would be his last moments, he reflected on his short 32 years of life and all the things he would never have done – how to travel, own a house or have children. He imagined that his parents were informed of his death and how strange it would be to die in such an alien environment.

“I grew up in a sort of middle class family in Cambridge, you know; how I ended up dying in this dark and lonely place?” Limoni remembers having thought.

His breathing became difficult and shortly thereafter, the lemons lost their conscience.

When the crew was able to regain control of the ship, turn to the immersion site, send a driver -free submarine with a camera called Rove to locate the lemons and then do the rescue to Yuasa, the diver had been cut from his navel for about half an hour. The time is more than enough to cause lasting brain damage, if not death, both can happen in a few minutes.

Lemons are not very convinced of luck or miracles, he says, but this case could adapt to the account.

“I use the word (luck) quite randomly, I think, but yes, it is difficult to deny it,” said Lemons. “I definitely feel lucky.”

Science and precision, not luckily

Jochen Schipke, a professor of physiology now retired in Germany who has been co-author A clinical case On how lemons survived Calvary, it does not use the word luck. He says it was “perfection”.

The lemons would have used more than the air available immediately after its cable had been cut out, when she felt in panic and had to go back to the top of the variety, according to Schipke. But once Lemons has resigned to die, Schipke says that his breath would have been very calm, allowing the divers trapped to extend his escort.

The divers were also breathing a mixture of helium and oxygen called Eliox, which allows them to maintain the correct pressure on the bottom of the ocean. Schipke says that helium cools the body and its use is the reason why Lemons’ body temperature had dropped to about 27 degrees Celsius when he returned to the bell.

The body uses less oxygen at colder temperatures, according to Schipke, so this factor would have contributed to further lengthening the limited reserves of lemons.

The formation of the crew was also important, according to the researcher. Lemons was in fantastic physical fitness and had 10 years of experience to his assets, while Yuasa, the Rove operator and other crew members acted quickly and precisely to save the lemons.

“This was close to perfection. Not so much luck,” said Schipke. “This was a training. This was knowledge. This was experience.”

Fortunately, science, perfection or any other factor, Lemons claims to be simply happy to be alive.

No great epiphanies or changes of life has come from the accident, he says – apart from perhaps a “more acute awareness” of death.

“I discovered that life takes over, really,” said Lemons. “Things are quickly forgotten and you go ahead and the … banality of existence suddenly take over.”

Within three weeks of the accident, he returned to work as a sub – a job he has done for another 10 years. In these days, Lemons talks about his history at conferences. He still works in the sector, but instead as a diving supervisor.

“I remain dry and safe,” said Lemons. “And I’m quite raised from saying it.”