Taking one last breath is something that we all practice as kids,

experimenting with how long we could hold out before seeing stars.

On September 18th of 2012, Saturation Diver Chris Lemons found himself in an impossible gain of life or death that went from

seeing stars to becoming one in an upcoming feature film. Welcome to Maroon, stories of the

catastrophically lost. I'm Jack Luna. This is Aaron Hable. Repairing and replacing oil pipes at the bottom of the North Sea is no simple task. It takes

teams of highly trained divers and support staff to pull it off. Deep Sea diving is very similar to

going into outer space, unforgiving environments that require visitors to use specialized gear,

equipment, and training to survive in those environments.

In order to acclimate the pressure of working at the bottom of the sea, dive teams are required

to live together in a hyperbaric chamber set at 10 times the atmospheric pressure for the duration

of their operation aboard the dive support ship, coexisting for 28 days straight in the cramped

space as they carry out multiple dives to the seafloor to complete their tasks.

Operating this way is the most efficient, as it requires divers to decompress once at the

end of the job. Connected to the living chamber is the dive bell. Divers enter the dive bell, and, like an underwater elevator, it descends, delivering them to the seafloor.

The system gets blown down, and is checked for leaks.

Blown down is the process of pressurizing the bell's internal chamber to match the pressure at the intended working depth.

The deeper the dive, the longer, the blowdown.

Yeah, and the good old blowdown. Also, the process of blowdown raises the temperature inside the

system, which will let you know pretty quickly if you have any sore joints or old injuries.

You'll feel your age or worse. Yeah, it's true. And as the divers work,

the support ship remains just above the intended job site, although, you know, pretty high up.

Despite the dangerous nature of the job, deep sea sat divers generally enjoy their work and are

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