The last breath - trapped on the ocean floor

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Movie
German title The last breath - trapped on the ocean floor
Original title Last Breath
Country of production United Kingdom , Belgium , Sweden
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 84 minutes
Rod
Director Richard da Costa ,
Alex Parkinson
script Alex Parkinson
music Paul Leonard-Morgan
camera Alistair McCormick
cut Sam Rogers

The Last Breath - Caught on the Seabed (Original title: Last Breath ) is a British - Belgian - Swedish documentary from 2019 . Using archive material, reenactments and interviews, he tells of an accident in the North Sea in which a professional diver was cut off from the air supply and his colleagues tried to save him.

content

On September 18, 2012, the three saturation divers Chris Lemons, Dave Yuasa and Duncan Allcock were about 90 meters below sea level at an oil production facility that they had to repair in the middle of the North Sea. Chris and Dave are in diving suits connected by umbilical cord to the diving ball in which they are monitored by Duncan and which in turn is connected to the ship Bibby Topaz on the surface. A computer system ensures that the ship constantly maintains its position above the divers.

During a severe storm with waves over five meters high, the computer system on the ship suddenly fails and the Bibby Topaz drifts quickly, pulling the diving ball with it. Chris and Dave are ordered to return to the diving ball immediately. In contrast to Dave, Chris can't do that because his increasingly taut umbilical cord has got caught in the oil production system. The umbilical cord breaks under the high pressure and therefore no longer supplies him with the Heliox he had been breathing until then . He can only draw breathable air for an estimated five minutes from a reserve gas cylinder attached to his diving suit.

After a few minutes, the crew on the ship begins to manually turn the Bibby Topaz and navigate back to the position above Chris. The crew sends an ROV , a remote-controlled, unmanned submarine, to Chris to investigate his health. About 20 minutes after the umbilical cord broke, the ROV can be used to see how Chris stops moving. About 30 minutes after the umbilical cord ruptured, Dave brought the motionless Chris into the diving ball, where he regained consciousness after a short mouth-to-mouth resuscitation . He and his colleagues can only speculate about the reasons why Chris survived longer than was expected. Three weeks later, after a recovery phase, he and his colleagues are doing diving again.

publication

The film was screened for the first time on February 28, 2019 as part of the Glasgow Film Festival 2019. It opened in British cinemas on April 5, 2019. The German premiere was on September 11, 2019 at Arte .

reception

Critics judged the film to be focused on creating suspense in a thriller manner and on rescuing the unfortunate diver, but criticized the film's lack of interest in the causes that led to the accident. Both movie service as well as The Guardian and Empire rated the film three stars out of five possible.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Release info , in: IMDb , accessed on 14 Sep. 2019
  2. ↑ a b The last breath - Trapped on the ocean floor. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Leslie Felperin: Last Breath review - deep-sea disaster doc racks up the suspense , in: The Guardian, April 5, 2019, accessed Sep 14. 2019
  4. ↑ Dan Jolln: Last Breath Review , in: Empire, April 1, 2019, accessed Sep. 14. 2019