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I work offshore in the oil and gas sector. A few years ago Chris Lemons came in and did a talk at our office as part of a “safety stand down day” and a few of my coworkers have worked with him. Interesting story and a nice guy
I would love to pick his brain about what his last thoughts were when he thought this was the end and if God had anything to do with it in his opinion.
Can we give a hand to our man Duncan !? Everyone else would have considered chris to be dead by the time he got back to the bell, but not Duncan. Duncan tried when the situation was absolutely hopeless.
Ex heavy industry spark here, In shituations like this our mandated gobshite safety and first aid programming kicks in much as we hate it it saves lives. ABC. airway breathing circulation continue cpr till emt arrives stop blood gushers and shock
@@takotako808 Indeed, far too many don't even try because they've given up before they've even started. So definite respect for the guy that tried 31 minutes later.
I agree with the assessment regarding his survival. The cold and the gas mixture helped his already well conditioned body survive. But had they not been able to get back to him as fast as they did or not even tried reviving him, he likely wouldn't have. The entire team all deserve praise for not giving up on their colleague. This was one of those 1 in 1,000,000,000,000 scenarios where a worst case scenario managed to be overcome. I tip my hat to them all. Well done.
@@ChickenPermissionOG Indeed, but he didn't go down that low. 7°C is more like being in a refrigerator, which is still very good at preventing tissue from necrotizing. And since the head is where you will lose a lot of your body heat, the fairly quick cooling of his head could prevent brain tissue death for some time. And as said before, his physical condition could also allow him to last longer with less oxygen. This is in part because a more physically active person has more mitochondria in their cells. Another aspect is the better condition of their circulatory system. What is truly interesting to me is that his body started again upon the introduction of fresh oxygen into his lungs. Chest compressions weren't mentioned at all. Just two breaths. That would imply his nervous system kicked everything back into gear simply because the lungs signaled "Hey! We have air!" That's amazing in and of itself.
Yeah I definitely agree that the most likely scenario of how he lived and his friend still giving him cpr to try to get him to breath again anyways as for no brain damage it’s probably cuz his lung had an extra supply of oxygen from the living conditions he was in so it was quite 100% out of air yet when they found him
Yes- you can look up the Jean Hilliard story as well. Basically, cold temps slow metabolic processes. So in emergency medicine, we continue CPR and running the “code blue” until a person is back to normal body temperature.
Interesting, can you explain how the body heats up to normal temperatures if there is no biochemical activity, heart beat and so on? Will the body start to warm up anyway as long as you induce artificial breathing and cpr? That sounds like it wouldn't do much at all, perhaps you artificially start to warm up the body with heat blankets? Do you have to take some steps to make sure you heat up the body both from the outside and the inside at the same rate? Warm infusions of some kind? Very interesting topic! Thanks :D@@Ameliasmom
Thank u for the work you do! I too survived a drowning incident (put into a self driving conversion van driving to a lake to be murdered by human traffickers) and was dead & blue, but the emts didn’t give up on me. They suctioned my lungs and used warming blankets with cpr. There is footage and you can see them breaking my stiff arms open to do cpr. 🫡🇺🇸
My brother was the medic on a deep sea diving crew. Although he hired in as a welder, he had previously worked as an EMT. That medical knowledge was vital on such missions, and he saved more than one man's life. Quite proud of him, but jobs like that are terrifying for the rest of the family. It really is a job for a special type of person. It also pays EXTREMELY well.
I’m a paramedic, so not many things on the internet get to me. Watching that footage on the top of the manifold, seeing him twitching… that was difficult for me to watch- even knowing he survived. Thank you for showing us his story ❤
As a claustrophobic, just listening to this story was exhausting. I can't even imagine how a person can go through all this. This is beyond incredible.
this was insane but nothing made me as claustrophobic as the video of the snowboarder rescuing a man who fell into a tree well headfirst and couldnt move. its hard to even type this omg. 😢
In Finland, police used to have the jurisdiction to declare people dead. Then one winter, someone fell into a freezing cold river. It took about 30 minutes to get them back up. The police on the scene declared them dead, surely they could not have survived that. But they did, and the person started to breath when they were hauling them away. Sadly, because of no proper medical attention, they died. The protocol was changed, so now it has to be a doctor who declares the death.
His name is Thoughty2, not Thoughty. Because Thoughty or Thoughty1 already existed before him. So you're technically talking to a different person. Besides everyone knows him as the "Hey 42 here" guy.
@@michaels.330 Ohh geez! Cheese it! It's the name police coming to bust me on a months old comment! Have it your way, I *was* talking to someone else named Thoughty about a line that I liked that Thoughty2 read but someone else again probably wrote. How's that? All better?
Another great one!! Quick story. I was a welder and thought id take a course in underwater welding. The instructor was an ex saturation diver. I asked why he quit. He was working on an oil rig in the north Atlantic, deep, but i forget how deep. His partner was about 20ft away on the rig when he felt an underwater pressure wave, like something really big passed by. When he looked up his partner was gone, just gone. They looked for days, but no sign of him was ever found. He quit after search was called off.😢
I'm shocked that even after a YEAR this comment has no replies. I wonder what happened. That sounds horrifying. I'm curious about the details and even whether or not that's true (the guy might've been pulling your leg). I'm especially curious as to the condition of whatever was left of that diver's umbilical cord. That could maybe give a clue as to what happened to the guy. Was he eaten by a Megalodon or grabbed by underwater Aliens? If the story is true, I'd quit too!
Im a Commercial diver and chris surviving is nothing more than a miracle. Everyone in this profession knows the story and everyone in this profession knows someone who knows chris. Its insane but the job is attracting and magical. Its the safest jobsite ive ever seen! Accidents occur rarely i bet walking down the street kills you faster.
Depends what your doing down there when welding in a bubble is probably one of the highest paid plus u get paid the whole time u decompress that’s were the easy money is
Absolutely love your channel/content. I´m a 49 year old carpenter with an apetite for knowledge , i´ve watched every episode and i love your narration & the magnificent stash. I have serious thalassophobia and a healthy dose of claustrophobia , this one was challanging.
I can hold my breath for a minute underwater. But Chris Lemon's survival story is utterly amazing. Despite all odds, he went back to work. That's a man with true nerves of steel. 🙏🏼💚
Absolutely outstanding storytelling, Arran! You made us well aware that the guy survived in advance but still went on to narrate such a gripping story. I've not seen anyone do this better than you.
This is, hands down, my favorite channel. I've always said that I'm a cornucopia of useless information and it's like I found a channel/content creator who feeds my thirst for knowledge, useless or not. Thanks Arran!
The most surprising part of the story to me is that the diving bell, and ect were strong enough to hoist Chris and his massive steel balls down to the ocean floor and back up again after the accident! He's the man's man!
I'd say all 3 men in the habitat deserve at least a similar distinction-- they each have some majorly metal cojones for not only remaining at-the-ready (Dave stayed in his suit well past the requisite 6-hr mark; even their well-conditioned bodies can stand only so much) and as you mentioned --- Dave managed to haul himself AND Chris back up Dave's umbilical....and and and Duncan never gave up. Nobody on the ship gave up. This is just amazing CRM (crew resource management) all around.
Listen man, you’re the best in this lane of RUclips. You’re informative and fun. I genuinely love your channel and I hope teachers work your videos into their curriculums. I’d love for my daughter to be taught this stuff.
I’ve run in to a couple of these guys during my time in the navy. The risk is high but the rewards are just as high. Sitting in an off the beaten path bar where regular tourists do get to was the first time I met one. The roll of cash in his hand was huge to say the least. He told a few stories of the North Sea from his perspective, at the bottom while mine was sailing overhead. I was young and loved hearing his stories. But the thing I remember most was that roll of cash! And that was just his ashore cash. An amazing job those boys have!
I think very few make over $200K a year. Which Def isn’t nothing, but not worth it to most. They’re also usually the type of lads to bring rolls to the bar and spend it easily hahaha , living life one day at a time. It’s for sure a young man’s game.
@@KevinM88TR11 Rightfully so lol. Whole different ballgame. Grandmas and children go skydiving very regularly. Sat-diving is significantly more extreme than being an astronaut, in many aspects. They don’t get paid enough imo.
@@KevinM88TR11 is that 20k averaged out? Or that’s what they make on a 30-day op? Cuz I know they have to take three months off in between each contract.
_"An amazing job those boys have!"_ - sorry to burst your bubble (pun not intended), but they have an AWFUL job - it's the pay check that is pretty handsome, indeed. How handsome? Well, that depends how you look at it; for some the bottle is half full, for others it's half empty. Back in the nineties, if I remember well, they were paid as much as £90 per hour (in '90's money!), but it wasn't like "five days a week, 50 weeks a year" - it was "from contract to contract", where that "in between/ meantime" could be months. or even half a year. I happened to know/ meet two such guys in my line of work back in the '90s, in Singapore - both of them were well above forty, maybe even over 50, can't remember now, and none of them was exceedingly rich - to the point that they both sort of "moonlighted" in a kind of international trade that wasn't 100% legit, if you get my drift. No, nothing serious, no drugs, guns or "live merchandise" - still, kinda on shadowy side, with a decent money to be made, but hardly a fortune - and with a quite real risk attached to it, the risk of being sent onto long holidays into one of those "resorts" regular tourist don't usually visit, unless they fall foul of local laws. So, this is my twopence on the subject, and about that "carpe diem" attitude of those folks? Well, if you do a job like that, any day of your job may be the last one (of both your job and your life), so yes, you gotta relieve the stress somehow, and since "no drinking on contract", then, once you're left off the leash.... Especially that a) you got a lot of the "easy" dough at your disposal, and b), more often than not you don't have any family to take care of, and c) finding the "female companion" in all sort of bars in exotic places with that much stash is just as difficult as finding a needle in a needle-stack. So yes, carpe diem, and considering that - usually - they are not the brightest minds of their generation, "eat, drink and be messy" for many of those is the idea of "having a good time". Speaking of "brightness"... Some time ago I came across some paper suggesting that despite all those prolonged decompression procedures and precautions some tiny "air" bubbles still do/ may appear in the bloodstream and body tissue(s), and while they are generally harmless they may block, locally, capillary vessels long enough for the nearby cells to die of oxygen starvation. Which again is "no biggie", cells can grow back, except... Uhm, yeah. The brain. ;-) So, with prolonged and FREQUENTLY REPEATED exposure to this phenomenon, becoming "older but wiser" is not necessarily the greatest occupational hazard of this profession, the conclusion read. But yes, for someone not really being able of (or interested in) becoming a rocket surgeon to start with this kind of job will give way more money than a bricklayer or truck driver job, and it is still safer than being a soldier of (mis)fortune.
I remember watching this documentary and it was done in such a way that the viewer had no idea whether this dude died or not. They even spoke of him in the past tense and it sounded like a really tragic story. I genuinely thought this was a story of a dude that died in the deep sea. Then he appears in the documentary as they wrap up the CPR part and I tell you I nearly fell off my chair. It was such a good documentary that I'll probably remember it till the day I die. Just goes to show the power of good story telling (and of course let's not forget the fact that it is indeed an incredible tale, story telling skills or not). I can't remember the name of the doco but I do remember that i found it on RUclips
Yeah I remember watching thinking there is not a chance in hell this guy survives. And even after you find out he lived I was just like no fuckin way. If it hadn't been documented I would have a hard time believing this story honestly.
Between his amazing storytelling, and the way he winks at the camera, you just can’t help but love this guy as both a storyteller, and as someone you feel like it’s just your friendly neighborhood best friend that just happens to feel like some kind of a god coming through The Internet. I love this channel I can never get enough of it. Even re-watching the old videos to me is entertaining. The voice, the words, the topics, and the way he interacts with the audience through gestures, and the fact that he keeps the background Plane so we just see him coming out of the darkness of the universe, and the music in the background isn’t your generic hip-hop Lofi garbage. It’s genuinely emotional melodies that are quiet and don’t take over the vocals, so we just hear mostly the voice which is to me very important, because if I can’t hear the voice , because stupid music is drowning it out, I just leave the channel and never come back. Or the fact that everything he says, somehow has something to do with the story itself. He doesn’t just write dialogue just to fill time. Truly, an amazing entertainer of the highest quality. he makes any topic amazing.
One of my best buddies was a saturation diver. He had a mishap that nearly killed him and he had to spend days in a hyperbaric chamber. He was no longer cleared to dive and now operates a sonar boat.
This story brought me to tears of hope and joy for Chris. Such an amazing story of survival in one of the most extreme environments on the planet. Those divers have a dedication and fortitude of spirit that is on par with Navy SEALS, Army Rangers & Green Barets, Marine Corp Force Reconnaissance & Light Armored Reconnaissance Snipers, Airforce TACP, PJ, & CCT. The world's privately operated force of saturation divers keep the power on in our homes and businesses. Thank you Chris for your risk and service.
My father was a deep sea diver, he worked on oil rigs, he told me stories about his job and that very few we’re lucky to return after things went wrong. Very lucky man😊
this reminds me of the stories of people drowned under the ice being brought back from death; prompting the statement in one documentary on the subject that teams didn't stop resusitation attempts until the subject was "warm and dead". Hats of the the team from bringing him ack and they're obviously all made of different stuff! Great vid as always.
The fact that he was able to go back there after what happened... Makes me wonder what other unusual things he might've done in other situations, stuff that didn't reach the media. Surely he lives his life so fiercely. He sounds incredible.
@@zoyadulzura7490 or lost braincells completely.. pretty stupid to go back to it when he should have got compensation as it wasn't his fault. Get a massive pay out and never work that shit job again. Sounds awful
Old medical saying: “You’re not dead until you’re warm and dead.” This story exemplifies the saying. Thoughty didn’t mention them, but there have been many other cases of cold water drowning where the victims were resuscitated. This story is uniques in that it happened at the bottom of the North Sea, rather than a lake or river, and the victim was a saturation diver. Many other victims have been children; physiologists believe an inherent autonomic response helps lower the metabolism quickly in cold water drownings.
18:22 The cold for sure helped, there is a reason for the saying " You're not dead until you're warm and dead". People who drown in cold water can still be viable after an hour, the longest someone has been "dead" was 17 hours!
I have heard this story two or three times now and one of them had the actual guy in it talking about it but the way you told it and work the animation it gave me cold chills this time. Very well done.
This...... just boggled my mind. And made me cry. I can't even imagine succumbing to death in a frozen underwater crypt, alone and hopeless, which is what I would have felt in his situation. Some people are just superhuman and super heroes. I'm torn up inside from this story, but my faith in humanity is just a bit stronger after this. Thank you.
i also admittedly shed some tears, but it was his dedication to his job and bravery to continue that touched me. with this level of intensity, if he had left his position, im sure it would have taken a long time to find a replacement, possibly increasing the workload of his fellows. these people help to keep our infrastructure running yet most of us dont know they exist - thank you!
I’m so glad it’s your faith in humanity :) yes, we humans are so often honorable and good to others - animal or human. Thank goodness for so many you tubers who show us ourselves being so terrific, cause you certainly don’t see this in the media - and I don’t know why - there sure is plenty of it :) 🌷🌱
Thank you for covering this story. I watch a new documentary every week and I watched the one on Netflix about this story a year ago. I'm no stranger to disturbing/harrowing stories, but this one was one of the hardest to mentally process and stayed on my mind for weeks afterwards. I recommend it to everyone I know that has a somewhat strong stomach. Glad to see it's received the Thoughty2 treatment :) You do cover great stories, love your channel and your sense of humour, fkn A
Wow! I caught a glimpse at the amount of research @thoughty2 has done! Amazing work, Aaron! You even communicated with a diver to have an understanding of their set up. THAT'S precisely why I love your vids.... There is always something I can learn. And I am in awe at the hero in the story... He really imparts a very important life hack.... When life throws you lemons, make like a Chris!
Chris Lemons turned out to be an extremely lucky guy. I would even say that he was born under a lucky star. He must have felt almost immortal after this and, of course, decided to once again challenge the sea elements. I wish I was as brave and tenacious as this guy. Be that as it may, I am grateful to these people for their work, because without such brave souls our world certainly would not look the same as it does now.🙌
Have watched the film "Last Breath" a few times and the team around chris lemons were awesome. There have been times before when people ended up in freezing water and they have survived. Theory is the saturation of his body with helium and oxygen and the almost freezing cold condition are what saved his life.
Love your content, thanks for sharing all these incredible stories. This particular story is absolutely incredible, incredibly animated and well narrated. I can't imagine what it must have felt like to be Chris, slowly suffocating, and going back to the same job, that shows an incredible mental strength that I would never have.
I’m not gonna lie, Thoughty2 comes up with some truly captivating, intriguing, and imagination-provoking thumbnails for his vids on top of the quality content.
20:05 Chris such a courageous hero... Indeed not all heroes were hats, some were dive suites. .. Thanks Thoughty2 for sharing such an inspiring LIFE story
Very well presented👍. I was a sat diver back in the 1970s and early 1980s. Fortunately it is hugely safer now than back in those days. I lasted 12 years in the job, before it was my turn in November 1983. I’ve never regretted my time diving though, it was a great experience. I was with SubSea Offshore and Comex Norge.
I saw that too. It was a really good doc. I couldn't stop watching like glued to the damn TV type shit. Watching him twitch was just insane bc it's like you know that's the end for him and no one can do anything but watch him die.
The third element that allowed him to live through it was the high pressure. Not only would the higher amount of oxygen he'd been living with be a factor, but the higher pressure would cause his tissues to be further saturated over and above the higher concentration of oxygen, and would make his body retain it better, as in it would stay absorbed until he used it.
It's the pressure that increases the amount of gases (O2, N2 and He in Trimix) in the tissues. O2 becomes toxic at too high concentrations. Thats why it's fraction is reduced in deep diving.
I've been watching your content since the early days. What a great video. Even after so many years I keep on learning new things. I never knew this type of work existed. Such an incredibly hard job Huge thanks to those guys able and willing to do it.
This story touched my heart. I felt anger and frustration during the part when the ships crew could watch. I believe that my reaction was evidence of great storytelling. Thank you.
I always love this kind of a story. I also would agree that being exposed to Heliox and the cold temperature underwater may have indeed helped him survived as if he was like a bear on a hibernation stage.
I can just imagine Dave imitating Chris’ twitching on that same manifold and they had a good laugh. You gotta have a sick sense of humor to go back there lol
It’s like those people who get extreme hypothermia and appear dead but can be brought back to life albeit a very small number of this has happened. But another saving grace is that he didn’t drown, therefore no water in his lungs or I doubt there would be any chance. Truly incredible!
Jesus christ. I can't even imagine the thought process that had him go right back diwn to finish the job that almost killed him. That's some serious dedication and amazing ability to compartmentalise his emotions.
Maybe he reasoned that not going back would mean letting the ocean win, and he couldn't have that. JK the guy is courageous af. I just can't fathom being able to make that choice.
I knew a guy who did this kind of job in the North Sea in the 1970s. He was one of the most mentally disturbed persons I have ever known. He had lost so many friends and colleagues in this dangerous profession, that during time on land he was basically a hard drinking alcoholic. He worked hard and drank to near oblivion.
It's common knowledge that if someone suffers oxygen deprivation in a cold environment that you never give up no matter how long it's been because shyt happens
He was working on one of our assets via a subcontractor. The DP system failed and the vessel drifted. That was a very emotional day for us all, so glad he made it, despite the odds. I heard he was back at work within a few days, some guy…
You know, basically every time there is media that deals with anything diving or DCS related, it's just so far off base it's not worth interacting with. This video was well researched and did a good job explaining the factors involved. Very well done.
As a professional fireman for 23 years, the saying is “you’re not dead until you’re warm and dead”. Any cold water death is worked if it’s been under an hour. Sometimes longer.
When I did my dispatch training it was I think 8 hours? Because of a little girl that was underwater for several hours in cold water and was resuscitated successfully with little issues in the end.
I am a first aider and one of the things they teached us during our education is that 'never give up on a drowned person, they may look like they are long gone but low temperatures in cold water makes them resistant'.
I’ve seen your videos countless times. I usually watch with captions, and I just find it hilarious that the auto-generated captions immediately read “Hey, 42 here!” 😂😂😂 I can’t un-hear it now.
So Chris basically hibernated for half an hour like frogs and crocodiles. i guess this opens up a new field of study for our future space travels. like always a great content, Thoughty2
Exactly what I thought, anyone researching cryo sleep or stasis must surely be interested in Chris' medical notes. He was in suspended animation for 30 mins!
its also possible that he just had more then 5 mins air supply could have been about 30 lmao, its not reasonable for only 5 mins of air to be stored as emergency
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:28 🌊 *Commercial saturation diving, an extreme profession, involves working at incredible depths, challenging physical demands, and living in pressurized chambers.* 03:37 🛠️ *Saturation divers work at depths of up to 300 meters, facing the risks of decompression sickness, which requires weeks of decompression after each dive.* 08:38 ⚠️ *Chris Lemons faced a life-threatening situation underwater when his umbilical snapped, leaving him stranded in freezing darkness, 90 meters below the North Sea's surface.* 16:07 🚨 *Chris's recovery after being without oxygen for over 30 minutes remains a mystery, challenging the typical understanding of the brain's oxygen deprivation effects.* 19:27 🦸 *Chris Lemons' resilience and return to diving mere weeks after the near-death incident showcase remarkable bravery and dedication to his profession.*
Chris's decision to go back to work was necessary for 2 reasons - 1. sanity 2. career. You have to get back on the horse that just threw you, or you will never get back on. If he left for some rest time - likely he would never have come back. Followed by feelings of failure and what ifs. That would have led to loss of career and total readjustment of family life. Yes, heroic. Life's choices are usually simple, just not easy.
I remember when I was going to school for welding and wanted to do underwater welding because it would pay so well then I started talking to people who had done saturation diving and yeah they talked me out of if pretty quickly....
I used to dive a little, snorkel a lot and I found myself holding my breath and consequently taking huge gulps of air during this tale. I’m so glad Chris survived and continued his work, despite what I would consider “calling it a day” after that horrifying incident ~
My best guess is he was never truly hypoxic due to the specific conditions he was under. First off, pressure alters the way tissues respond to hypoxic conditions. Higher pressure means higher oxygen solubility, which means his tissues and blood would have retained more oxygen for much longer. He also lost consciousness, so his body wasn't actually demanding very much oxygen right off the bat. Being unconscious also massively effects brain oxygenation. If the rest of your body and metabolism are basically "off," it allows your brain to take up more surplus oxygen in these conditions, further preserving these tissues. The heliox mix they use also has some cool properties aside from just having a higher oxygen concentration. There are a few studies that seem to indicate heliox has somewhat similar effect to sedative gases, which would further lower metabolic demand by keeping him in a deeper sleep. Heliox also heavily reduces the work required to actually breathe since it's much lighter and has unique laminar properties according to a few studies. It reduces the metabolic demand for breathing. Finally, like the video mentions, he was very cold which further reduces metabolic demand. This is commonly used in medical settings. Controlled hypothermia is used pretty commonly during certain surgical procedures to protect sensitive tissues like the brain and heart against ischemia. It's very possible that the environment at the very least minimized tissue damage from hypoxia. But I'm definitely not an expert in this. Please correct me if/when I get anything wrong.
Im a first responder, a 33 year old male had a heart attack and was getting CPR by his wife for over 20 minutes before we arrived. He was brought back. I've never seen someone dead for more than a few minutes and come back. He's perfectly fine now. To this day it still gives me chills.
Remarkable account of fully functioning survival despite obscenely brutal odds. The fact that he regained full functioning of his body so soon after the incident in question is, to me at least, miraculous. And yes, I'm aware of the factors that likely worked in his favor, and I still find it miraculous that he bounced back without any functional impairments, and without any permanent neurological damage. Frankly I'm in awe. But mostly, I'm happy for him + his loved ones.
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I work offshore in the oil and gas sector. A few years ago Chris Lemons came in and did a talk at our office as part of a “safety stand down day” and a few of my coworkers have worked with him. Interesting story and a nice guy
That's incredible
He's a s$it tonn braver than I am!
Wow, wow, wow, and holy s#it!
Awesome. You guys are the real world heroes. Thank you for what you do!
I would love to pick his brain about what his last thoughts were when he thought this was the end and if God had anything to do with it in his opinion.
Can we give a hand to our man Duncan !? Everyone else would have considered chris to be dead by the time he got back to the bell, but not Duncan. Duncan tried when the situation was absolutely hopeless.
I have a feeling you'd have tried too;) We really are at our best during seemingly impossible situations...
a real bro
@@BCTGuitarPlayer sadly people die every day because the people they were surrounded by "didn't" 🤷. Respect to the people that try!!
Ex heavy industry spark here, In shituations like this our mandated gobshite safety and first aid programming kicks in much as we hate it it saves lives. ABC. airway breathing circulation continue cpr till emt arrives stop blood gushers and shock
@@takotako808 Indeed, far too many don't even try because they've given up before they've even started. So definite respect for the guy that tried 31 minutes later.
I agree with the assessment regarding his survival. The cold and the gas mixture helped his already well conditioned body survive. But had they not been able to get back to him as fast as they did or not even tried reviving him, he likely wouldn't have. The entire team all deserve praise for not giving up on their colleague. This was one of those 1 in 1,000,000,000,000 scenarios where a worst case scenario managed to be overcome.
I tip my hat to them all. Well done.
people have survived being frozen for hours
I imagine he was skip breathing too and MAYBE had air for slightly longer than 5 minutes but not more than 10
@@ChickenPermissionOG Indeed, but he didn't go down that low. 7°C is more like being in a refrigerator, which is still very good at preventing tissue from necrotizing. And since the head is where you will lose a lot of your body heat, the fairly quick cooling of his head could prevent brain tissue death for some time. And as said before, his physical condition could also allow him to last longer with less oxygen. This is in part because a more physically active person has more mitochondria in their cells. Another aspect is the better condition of their circulatory system.
What is truly interesting to me is that his body started again upon the introduction of fresh oxygen into his lungs. Chest compressions weren't mentioned at all. Just two breaths. That would imply his nervous system kicked everything back into gear simply because the lungs signaled "Hey! We have air!" That's amazing in and of itself.
Yeah I definitely agree that the most likely scenario of how he lived and his friend still giving him cpr to try to get him to breath again anyways as for no brain damage it’s probably cuz his lung had an extra supply of oxygen from the living conditions he was in so it was quite 100% out of air yet when they found him
The near freezing temps slowed the brains metabolism, Surgeons use it in some operations to protect the brain.@@Kekeliz
As a nurse/paramedic, we learn you are not dead until you are warm and dead. So kudos to Dave and Duncan for not giving up!
wait what? you aren't dead until you are WARM and dead?
Yes- you can look up the Jean Hilliard story as well. Basically, cold temps slow metabolic processes. So in emergency medicine, we continue CPR and running the “code blue” until a person is back to normal body temperature.
Interesting, can you explain how the body heats up to normal temperatures if there is no biochemical activity, heart beat and so on? Will the body start to warm up anyway as long as you induce artificial breathing and cpr? That sounds like it wouldn't do much at all, perhaps you artificially start to warm up the body with heat blankets? Do you have to take some steps to make sure you heat up the body both from the outside and the inside at the same rate? Warm infusions of some kind? Very interesting topic! Thanks :D@@Ameliasmom
@@Ameliasmom does that have any relation to when people are getting incredible cold there weirdly strip naked because they are weirdly hot
Thank u for the work you do! I too survived a drowning incident (put into a self driving conversion van driving to a lake to be murdered by human traffickers) and was dead & blue, but the emts didn’t give up on me. They suctioned my lungs and used warming blankets with cpr. There is footage and you can see them breaking my stiff arms open to do cpr. 🫡🇺🇸
My brother was the medic on a deep sea diving crew. Although he hired in as a welder, he had previously worked as an EMT. That medical knowledge was vital on such missions, and he saved more than one man's life. Quite proud of him, but jobs like that are terrifying for the rest of the family. It really is a job for a special type of person. It also pays EXTREMELY well.
I just googled how much these guys get paid. Extremely well indeed but I'm not surprised
I’m a paramedic, so not many things on the internet get to me. Watching that footage on the top of the manifold, seeing him twitching… that was difficult for me to watch- even knowing he survived.
Thank you for showing us his story ❤
Do guys ever hit on you while they are in the back of the ambulance?
its a cartoon.. why would this bother you?
@@zackwaffen9210 bro after chris got stuck
They showed like 5 seconds of the real footage. Think u skipped some parts
@@zackwaffen9210 awww sweetie, you haven’t watched the video have you?
@@MrThickDick rarely, but it happens. I’m not in the USA, so as a general rule, if you’re in the back of an ambulance here, you’re actually sick.
As a claustrophobic, just listening to this story was exhausting. I can't even imagine how a person can go through all this. This is beyond incredible.
hello extrovert
I agree but also to not be permanently traumatized and suffer ptsd some people are just made of different stuff
this was insane but nothing made me as claustrophobic as the video of the snowboarder rescuing a man who fell into a tree well headfirst and couldnt move. its hard to even type this omg. 😢
they are real heroes with steel balls, is just beyond my imagination how brave they are.
Cave divers and people who squeeze into unexplored cave passages are completely mental LoL.
In Finland, police used to have the jurisdiction to declare people dead. Then one winter, someone fell into a freezing cold river. It took about 30 minutes to get them back up. The police on the scene declared them dead, surely they could not have survived that. But they did, and the person started to breath when they were hauling them away. Sadly, because of no proper medical attention, they died. The protocol was changed, so now it has to be a doctor who declares the death.
"You're only dead when you're warm AND dead" - the new protocol, I think
The doctor would've declared that someone dead as well, I reckon.
That’s smart.
Who they? How many people died?
The person would have been brain dead anyway so cares
"Not many people get such a good long look at the Grim Reaper before he swings his scythe,"
Ooooh. That's damn good stuff, Thoughty. Damn good.
I know!
AI generated text lol.
What does this mean?
His name is Thoughty2, not Thoughty. Because Thoughty or Thoughty1 already existed before him. So you're technically talking to a different person. Besides everyone knows him as the "Hey 42 here" guy.
@@michaels.330 Ohh geez! Cheese it! It's the name police coming to bust me on a months old comment!
Have it your way, I *was* talking to someone else named Thoughty about a line that I liked that Thoughty2 read but someone else again probably wrote. How's that? All better?
Another great one!! Quick story. I was a welder and thought id take a course in underwater welding. The instructor was an ex saturation diver. I asked why he quit. He was working on an oil rig in the north Atlantic, deep, but i forget how deep. His partner was about 20ft away on the rig when he felt an underwater pressure wave, like something really big passed by. When he looked up his partner was gone, just gone. They looked for days, but no sign of him was ever found. He quit after search was called off.😢
I'm shocked that even after a YEAR this comment has no replies. I wonder what happened. That sounds horrifying. I'm curious about the details and even whether or not that's true (the guy might've been pulling your leg). I'm especially curious as to the condition of whatever was left of that diver's umbilical cord. That could maybe give a clue as to what happened to the guy. Was he eaten by a Megalodon or grabbed by underwater Aliens? If the story is true, I'd quit too!
Im a Commercial diver and chris surviving is nothing more than a miracle. Everyone in this profession knows the story and everyone in this profession knows someone who knows chris. Its insane but the job is attracting and magical. Its the safest jobsite ive ever seen! Accidents occur rarely i bet walking down the street kills you faster.
I'm so curious how much money y'all get paid to get people interested in pursuing such an extreme career?
True, how much money do y'all get paid?
You mean nothing LESS than a miracle! But sure this job is not for everyone!
@@JonnyHavens That was the first thing I googled while watching the video. According to my search, not that much..
Depends what your doing down there when welding in a bubble is probably one of the highest paid plus u get paid the whole time u decompress that’s were the easy money is
The story is amazing but your storytelling is out of this world!!! You had me glued to the screen from beginning to end.
He is a fantastic Story Teller!
He's no Mr Ballen lol, But he is pretty good
In the documentary Duncan prayed for Chris .
That’s the best part about Thoughty2!
Absolutely love your channel/content.
I´m a 49 year old carpenter with an apetite for knowledge , i´ve watched every episode and i love your narration & the magnificent stash. I have serious thalassophobia and a healthy dose of claustrophobia , this one was challanging.
There’s a Netflix doc about his story last breath it’s called I believe very gripping
Crew never abandoned him, THAT'S THE BIGGEST THING.
I can hold my breath for a minute underwater. But Chris Lemon's survival story is utterly amazing. Despite all odds, he went back to work. That's a man with true nerves of steel. 🙏🏼💚
Absolutely outstanding storytelling, Arran! You made us well aware that the guy survived in advance but still went on to narrate such a gripping story. I've not seen anyone do this better than you.
This is, hands down, my favorite channel. I've always said that I'm a cornucopia of useless information and it's like I found a channel/content creator who feeds my thirst for knowledge, useless or not. Thanks Arran!
Same here! And his name is Arran?? That's new information for me! Been watching this channel for years, and never knew this guy's name.
That's too funny. I always tell my dad the same thing, that he is a cornucopias of useless interesting knowledge that nobody asked know 😂
@@mikespearwood3914his name is in his RUclips channel description lol. And in all the video descriptions I believe.
I'd agree with you if there wasn't so many discrepancies from the original story.
Fr Best explanation
The most surprising part of the story to me is that the diving bell, and ect were strong enough to hoist Chris and his massive steel balls down to the ocean floor and back up again after the accident! He's the man's man!
I'd say all 3 men in the habitat deserve at least a similar distinction-- they each have some majorly metal cojones for not only remaining at-the-ready (Dave stayed in his suit well past the requisite 6-hr mark; even their well-conditioned bodies can stand only so much) and as you mentioned --- Dave managed to haul himself AND Chris back up Dave's umbilical....and and and Duncan never gave up. Nobody on the ship gave up. This is just amazing CRM (crew resource management) all around.
Listen man, you’re the best in this lane of RUclips.
You’re informative and fun. I genuinely love your channel and I hope teachers work your videos into their curriculums. I’d love for my daughter to be taught this stuff.
I’ve run in to a couple of these guys during my time in the navy. The risk is high but the rewards are just as high. Sitting in an off the beaten path bar where regular tourists do get to was the first time I met one. The roll of cash in his hand was huge to say the least. He told a few stories of the North Sea from his perspective, at the bottom while mine was sailing overhead. I was young and loved hearing his stories. But the thing I remember most was that roll of cash! And that was just his ashore cash. An amazing job those boys have!
I think very few make over $200K a year. Which Def isn’t nothing, but not worth it to most. They’re also usually the type of lads to bring rolls to the bar and spend it easily hahaha , living life one day at a time. It’s for sure a young man’s game.
@@ghostpiratelechuck2259 whatever they make it’s sure not enough in my eyes!!!
@@KevinM88TR11 Rightfully so lol. Whole different ballgame. Grandmas and children go skydiving very regularly. Sat-diving is significantly more extreme than being an astronaut, in many aspects.
They don’t get paid enough imo.
@@KevinM88TR11 is that 20k averaged out? Or that’s what they make on a 30-day op? Cuz I know they have to take three months off in between each contract.
_"An amazing job those boys have!"_ - sorry to burst your bubble (pun not intended), but they have an AWFUL job - it's the pay check that is pretty handsome, indeed. How handsome? Well, that depends how you look at it; for some the bottle is half full, for others it's half empty.
Back in the nineties, if I remember well, they were paid as much as £90 per hour (in '90's money!), but it wasn't like "five days a week, 50 weeks a year" - it was "from contract to contract", where that "in between/ meantime" could be months. or even half a year.
I happened to know/ meet two such guys in my line of work back in the '90s, in Singapore - both of them were well above forty, maybe even over 50, can't remember now, and none of them was exceedingly rich - to the point that they both sort of "moonlighted" in a kind of international trade that wasn't 100% legit, if you get my drift.
No, nothing serious, no drugs, guns or "live merchandise" - still, kinda on shadowy side, with a decent money to be made, but hardly a fortune - and with a quite real risk attached to it, the risk of being sent onto long holidays into one of those "resorts" regular tourist don't usually visit, unless they fall foul of local laws.
So, this is my twopence on the subject, and about that "carpe diem" attitude of those folks? Well, if you do a job like that, any day of your job may be the last one (of both your job and your life), so yes, you gotta relieve the stress somehow, and since "no drinking on contract", then, once you're left off the leash....
Especially that a) you got a lot of the "easy" dough at your disposal, and b), more often than not you don't have any family to take care of, and c) finding the "female companion" in all sort of bars in exotic places with that much stash is just as difficult as finding a needle in a needle-stack. So yes, carpe diem, and considering that - usually - they are not the brightest minds of their generation, "eat, drink and be messy" for many of those is the idea of "having a good time".
Speaking of "brightness"... Some time ago I came across some paper suggesting that despite all those prolonged decompression procedures and precautions some tiny "air" bubbles still do/ may appear in the bloodstream and body tissue(s), and while they are generally harmless they may block, locally, capillary vessels long enough for the nearby cells to die of oxygen starvation. Which again is "no biggie", cells can grow back, except... Uhm, yeah. The brain. ;-)
So, with prolonged and FREQUENTLY REPEATED exposure to this phenomenon, becoming "older but wiser" is not necessarily the greatest occupational hazard of this profession, the conclusion read.
But yes, for someone not really being able of (or interested in) becoming a rocket surgeon to start with this kind of job will give way more money than a bricklayer or truck driver job, and it is still safer than being a soldier of (mis)fortune.
I remember watching this documentary and it was done in such a way that the viewer had no idea whether this dude died or not. They even spoke of him in the past tense and it sounded like a really tragic story. I genuinely thought this was a story of a dude that died in the deep sea. Then he appears in the documentary as they wrap up the CPR part and I tell you I nearly fell off my chair. It was such a good documentary that I'll probably remember it till the day I die. Just goes to show the power of good story telling (and of course let's not forget the fact that it is indeed an incredible tale, story telling skills or not).
I can't remember the name of the doco but I do remember that i found it on RUclips
Yeah I remember watching thinking there is not a chance in hell this guy survives. And even after you find out he lived I was just like no fuckin way. If it hadn't been documented I would have a hard time believing this story honestly.
It’s called last breath. Hell of a watch
Still gives me chills thinking about it! Definitely worth watching.
@@Sh4tterdL0g1cyou are Da’man!! (Or. Woman, or whatever you identify as) thank you so much! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@qjuantum lol I’m a dude but hell yea bro hope you enjoy!
Between his amazing storytelling, and the way he winks at the camera, you just can’t help but love this guy as both a storyteller, and as someone you feel like it’s just your friendly neighborhood best friend that just happens to feel like some kind of a god coming through The Internet. I love this channel I can never get enough of it. Even re-watching the old videos to me is entertaining. The voice, the words, the topics, and the way he interacts with the audience through gestures, and the fact that he keeps the background Plane so we just see him coming out of the darkness of the universe, and the music in the background isn’t your generic hip-hop Lofi garbage. It’s genuinely emotional melodies that are quiet and don’t take over the vocals, so we just hear mostly the voice which is to me very important, because if I can’t hear the voice , because stupid music is drowning it out, I just leave the channel and never come back. Or the fact that everything he says, somehow has something to do with the story itself. He doesn’t just write dialogue just to fill time. Truly, an amazing entertainer of the highest quality. he makes any topic amazing.
Yes, he really is the perfect narrator.
One of my best buddies was a saturation diver. He had a mishap that nearly killed him and he had to spend days in a hyperbaric chamber. He was no longer cleared to dive and now operates a sonar boat.
This story brought me to tears of hope and joy for Chris. Such an amazing story of survival in one of the most extreme environments on the planet. Those divers have a dedication and fortitude of spirit that is on par with Navy SEALS, Army Rangers & Green Barets, Marine Corp Force Reconnaissance & Light Armored Reconnaissance Snipers, Airforce TACP, PJ, & CCT.
The world's privately operated force of saturation divers keep the power on in our homes and businesses.
Thank you Chris for your risk and service.
My father was a deep sea diver, he worked on oil rigs, he told me stories about his job and that very few we’re lucky to return after things went wrong. Very lucky man😊
this reminds me of the stories of people drowned under the ice being brought back from death; prompting the statement in one documentary on the subject that teams didn't stop resusitation attempts until the subject was "warm and dead". Hats of the the team from bringing him ack and they're obviously all made of different stuff! Great vid as always.
I was thinking the same thing. He said the temperature down there was only 4 degrees.
This man has an amount of bravery that almost nobody can comprehend. This story should be an inspiration to anyone that hears it.
The fact that he was able to go back there after what happened... Makes me wonder what other unusual things he might've done in other situations, stuff that didn't reach the media. Surely he lives his life so fiercely. He sounds incredible.
@@zoyadulzura7490 Agreed. He's an amazing human being for sure.
@@zoyadulzura7490 or lost braincells completely.. pretty stupid to go back to it when he should have got compensation as it wasn't his fault. Get a massive pay out and never work that shit job again. Sounds awful
Old medical saying: “You’re not dead until you’re warm and dead.” This story exemplifies the saying.
Thoughty didn’t mention them, but there have been many other cases of cold water drowning where the victims were resuscitated. This story is uniques in that it happened at the bottom of the North Sea, rather than a lake or river, and the victim was a saturation diver. Many other victims have been children; physiologists believe an inherent autonomic response helps lower the metabolism quickly in cold water drownings.
Hahaha i was about to say that
It is not the cold that surprises in this story, but the depth. Sixty fathoms is three hundred feet.
18:22 The cold for sure helped, there is a reason for the saying " You're not dead until you're warm and dead".
People who drown in cold water can still be viable after an hour, the longest someone has been "dead" was 17 hours!
I have heard this story two or three times now and one of them had the actual guy in it talking about it but the way you told it and work the animation it gave me cold chills this time. Very well done.
This...... just boggled my mind. And made me cry. I can't even imagine succumbing to death in a frozen underwater crypt, alone and hopeless, which is what I would have felt in his situation. Some people are just superhuman and super heroes. I'm torn up inside from this story, but my faith in humanity is just a bit stronger after this. Thank you.
i also admittedly shed some tears, but it was his dedication to his job and bravery to continue that touched me. with this level of intensity, if he had left his position, im sure it would have taken a long time to find a replacement, possibly increasing the workload of his fellows. these people help to keep our infrastructure running yet most of us dont know they exist - thank you!
I'm a Merchant Marine and I've had a few properly fucked mishaps in the sea, so yeah, I too shed a few emotionally touchy eye water drops I guess 🥲
I’m so glad it’s your faith in humanity :) yes, we humans are so often honorable and good to others - animal or human. Thank goodness for so many you tubers who show us ourselves being so terrific,
cause you certainly don’t see this in the media - and I don’t know why - there sure is plenty of it :) 🌷🌱
And some people tell good stories 😂
I started crying my eyes out seeing him twitching, that real footage really got me to me.
Thank you for covering this story. I watch a new documentary every week and I watched the one on Netflix about this story a year ago. I'm no stranger to disturbing/harrowing stories, but this one was one of the hardest to mentally process and stayed on my mind for weeks afterwards. I recommend it to everyone I know that has a somewhat strong stomach. Glad to see it's received the Thoughty2 treatment :) You do cover great stories, love your channel and your sense of humour, fkn A
Wow! I caught a glimpse at the amount of research @thoughty2 has done! Amazing work, Aaron! You even communicated with a diver to have an understanding of their set up. THAT'S precisely why I love your vids.... There is always something I can learn. And I am in awe at the hero in the story... He really imparts a very important life hack.... When life throws you lemons, make like a Chris!
Chris Lemons turned out to be an extremely lucky guy. I would even say that he was born under a lucky star. He must have felt almost immortal after this and, of course, decided to once again challenge the sea elements. I wish I was as brave and tenacious as this guy. Be that as it may, I am grateful to these people for their work, because without such brave souls our world certainly would not look the same as it does now.🙌
When life gives you Chris Lemons, give Chris Lemons aid.
His guardian angel really did a good job 😊
Alittle bit of luck is earned after a lifetime of training
A brilliant job explaining this, well done!
Cheers Chris! 😀
I'm so happy your story of survival had a good ending chris❤
Have watched the film "Last Breath" a few times and the team around chris lemons were awesome. There have been times before when people ended up in freezing water and they have survived. Theory is the saturation of his body with helium and oxygen and the almost freezing cold condition are what saved his life.
Thanks for the shoutout, I am megladong 😉
Love your content, thanks for sharing all these incredible stories.
This particular story is absolutely incredible, incredibly animated and well narrated. I can't imagine what it must have felt like to be Chris, slowly suffocating, and going back to the same job, that shows an incredible mental strength that I would never have.
I’m not gonna lie, Thoughty2 comes up with some truly captivating, intriguing, and imagination-provoking thumbnails for his vids on top of the quality content.
20:05 Chris such a courageous hero... Indeed not all heroes were hats, some were dive suites. .. Thanks Thoughty2 for sharing such an inspiring LIFE story
Very well presented👍. I was a sat diver back in the 1970s and early 1980s. Fortunately it is hugely safer now than back in those days. I lasted 12 years in the job, before it was my turn in November 1983. I’ve never regretted my time diving though, it was a great experience. I was with SubSea Offshore and Comex Norge.
I cant imagine the mindset and brass balls a man needs to have to do that job.
I watched a documentary about this a few years ago, it was incredible, how he survived is astonishing..
I saw that too. It was a really good doc. I couldn't stop watching like glued to the damn TV type shit.
Watching him twitch was just insane bc it's like you know that's the end for him and no one can do anything but watch him die.
The third element that allowed him to live through it was the high pressure. Not only would the higher amount of oxygen he'd been living with be a factor, but the higher pressure would cause his tissues to be further saturated over and above the higher concentration of oxygen, and would make his body retain it better, as in it would stay absorbed until he used it.
Yeah, that's what I thought too
And it's quite possible that Duncan had been eating curry. That garlic breath was enough to wake anyone up.
It's the pressure that increases the amount of gases (O2, N2 and He in Trimix) in the tissues. O2 becomes toxic at too high concentrations. Thats why it's fraction is reduced in deep diving.
@@KenFullman Nah, his bellmates would have probably killed him over the smell a week before the incident.
it has to be related. your whole body super saturated and pressurized, I wish miracles where real. But I don't believe so.
I've been watching your content since the early days. What a great video. Even after so many years I keep on learning new things. I never knew this type of work existed. Such an incredibly hard job Huge thanks to those guys able and willing to do it.
Thrilling!!!! I’ve never heard of this incredible job? I’m a claustrophobic….. unnerving to watch!!!! Much admiration to these guys….❤❤❤
Absolutely love your voice and narration of these stories.
This story touched my heart. I felt anger and frustration during the part when the ships crew could watch. I believe that my reaction was evidence of great storytelling.
Thank you.
I always love this kind of a story. I also would agree that being exposed to Heliox and the cold temperature underwater may have indeed helped him survived as if he was like a bear on a hibernation stage.
Not may of, it 100% did.
I can just imagine Dave imitating Chris’ twitching on that same manifold and they had a good laugh. You gotta have a sick sense of humor to go back there lol
It’s like those people who get extreme hypothermia and appear dead but can be brought back to life albeit a very small number of this has happened. But another saving grace is that he didn’t drown, therefore no water in his lungs or I doubt there would be any chance. Truly incredible!
Jesus christ. I can't even imagine the thought process that had him go right back diwn to finish the job that almost killed him. That's some serious dedication and amazing ability to compartmentalise his emotions.
Maybe he reasoned that not going back would mean letting the ocean win, and he couldn't have that. JK the guy is courageous af. I just can't fathom being able to make that choice.
Terrifying yet inspiring story. Glad he survived!
I survived watching "The English patient" , so there's that.
I died for a few minutes right at the end but it wasn't my time so The Devil sent me back
Loved this episode! ❤ Thanks keep it up!
I knew a guy who did this kind of job in the North Sea in the 1970s. He was one of the most mentally disturbed persons I have ever known. He had lost so many friends and colleagues in this dangerous profession, that during time on land he was basically a hard drinking alcoholic. He worked hard and drank to near oblivion.
Three legends all of them. Thank you Thoughty for telling us in advance that he survived, because it would have been unwatchable for me without that!
How does this man keep his content so fresh?
He, like MrBallen, were meant to be storytellers! They're the 2 best!!!
It's common knowledge that if someone suffers oxygen deprivation in a cold environment that you never give up no matter how long it's been because shyt happens
They're not dead until they're warm and dead.
Ever see the movie "The Abyss"?
@@robbrown2314 yes
i was told that in my maritime first aid class. @@lisa2stewart
i was told that in my maritime first aid class. @@lisa2stewart
He was working on one of our assets via a subcontractor. The DP system failed and the vessel drifted. That was a very emotional day for us all, so glad he made it, despite the odds. I heard he was back at work within a few days, some guy…
You know, basically every time there is media that deals with anything diving or DCS related, it's just so far off base it's not worth interacting with. This video was well researched and did a good job explaining the factors involved. Very well done.
Imagine listening to your crewmates sounding like chipmunks for a month straight!?! I'd go insane lol! They almost sound alien lol. cheers
Thoughty2 videos incredibly help me survive the monotony of the day-to-day. Explain that!
thoughty2 should make that a video explaining that!
Great story, you really did capture the moment. I felt like part of the crew on that boat watching him pass on.
As a professional fireman for 23 years, the saying is “you’re not dead until you’re warm and dead”. Any cold water death is worked if it’s been under an hour. Sometimes longer.
When I did my dispatch training it was I think 8 hours? Because of a little girl that was underwater for several hours in cold water and was resuscitated successfully with little issues in the end.
I am a first aider and one of the things they teached us during our education is that 'never give up on a drowned person, they may look like they are long gone but low temperatures in cold water makes them resistant'.
The people who came up with the diving protocols were obviously smarter than the people who came up with the DPS system.
This is arguably the most amazing survival story I have ever heard.
No matter how much these guys get paid to do this job, they should get way more.
£1000 a day and they deserve every penny
@@scottessery100 That's nothing for big oil, they can just buy people to do whatever they want, they should be getting 10,000 a day
I’ve seen your videos countless times. I usually watch with captions, and I just find it hilarious that the auto-generated captions immediately read “Hey, 42 here!” 😂😂😂 I can’t un-hear it now.
Not gonna lie. The way this story was told it felt no less then watching a movie dramatising the events. Very well done!
I absolutely adore your videos and the stories, theories, and sciences that you cover keep up the great work!
Thanks thoughty2 for the great video, been watching for years❤
So Chris basically hibernated for half an hour like frogs and crocodiles. i guess this opens up a new field of study for our future space travels. like always a great content, Thoughty2
Exactly what I thought, anyone researching cryo sleep or stasis must surely be interested in Chris' medical notes. He was in suspended animation for 30 mins!
its also possible that he just had more then 5 mins air supply could have been about 30 lmao, its not reasonable for only 5 mins of air to be stored as emergency
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:28 🌊 *Commercial saturation diving, an extreme profession, involves working at incredible depths, challenging physical demands, and living in pressurized chambers.*
03:37 🛠️ *Saturation divers work at depths of up to 300 meters, facing the risks of decompression sickness, which requires weeks of decompression after each dive.*
08:38 ⚠️ *Chris Lemons faced a life-threatening situation underwater when his umbilical snapped, leaving him stranded in freezing darkness, 90 meters below the North Sea's surface.*
16:07 🚨 *Chris's recovery after being without oxygen for over 30 minutes remains a mystery, challenging the typical understanding of the brain's oxygen deprivation effects.*
19:27 🦸 *Chris Lemons' resilience and return to diving mere weeks after the near-death incident showcase remarkable bravery and dedication to his profession.*
Chris's decision to go back to work was necessary for 2 reasons - 1. sanity 2. career. You have to get back on the horse that just threw you, or you will never get back on. If he left for some rest time - likely he would never have come back. Followed by feelings of failure and what ifs. That would have led to loss of career and total readjustment of family life. Yes, heroic. Life's choices are usually simple, just not easy.
He has 2 kids but I guess for a choice that big you really can’t second-guess it
I remember when I was going to school for welding and wanted to do underwater welding because it would pay so well then I started talking to people who had done saturation diving and yeah they talked me out of if pretty quickly....
even better is if you had amalgam fillings , they fizz when you weld underwater :)
@@geoffgunn9673 Thanks for that image 🤣
Holy heck . I was not expecting that “real” footage.
That changes everything up until this point
you should watch the documentary. It's so tense and has much more footage.
@@embracethemystery I don’t know if I want too.
That was “real” . It humbled me.
@@replicant357 hell yeah man same
I'm a Sat diver, some years I make 300k, usually not that much though, but whats good is im off for probably 3-4 months in that year.
would you return to your job after what happened to him?
How long do you need to train in order to become a diver?
Glad you're still with us Chris.
I think this was the most amazing survival story I have ever heard of, and I think Chris is the most amazing man I have ever seen.
Probably the best "dead but still alive" true stories. Still horrifying even, already knowing the ending and presented brilliantly. Thanks.. 😜
An epic story that's worthy of being made into a film. Quite incredible.
One of the greatest creator on YT
One of then and Simon is another an brew
I used to dive a little, snorkel a lot and I found myself holding my breath and consequently taking huge gulps of air during this tale.
I’m so glad Chris survived and continued his work, despite what I would consider “calling it a day” after that horrifying incident ~
OMG! It FINALLY happened!! I actually heard "Thoughty2" instead of "42"!!!
{faints}
GREAT!.....U ds!! 😉
Got the notification just as i sat down on the toilet, perfect timing 😂👌
Did u wash your hands or are you still motioning ?
Don't drop your phone down the bog or you'll be doing some saturation diving yourself!!😂
God bless anyone reading this s
Very good video. Subbed. Actually telling the story without pausing for lame jokes and to draw attention to yourself like most video essayists.
Another great vid Arran!
Not seen views go up as fast as a Thoughty2 Upload😂
My best guess is he was never truly hypoxic due to the specific conditions he was under.
First off, pressure alters the way tissues respond to hypoxic conditions. Higher pressure means higher oxygen solubility, which means his tissues and blood would have retained more oxygen for much longer.
He also lost consciousness, so his body wasn't actually demanding very much oxygen right off the bat.
Being unconscious also massively effects brain oxygenation. If the rest of your body and metabolism are basically "off," it allows your brain to take up more surplus oxygen in these conditions, further preserving these tissues.
The heliox mix they use also has some cool properties aside from just having a higher oxygen concentration.
There are a few studies that seem to indicate heliox has somewhat similar effect to sedative gases, which would further lower metabolic demand by keeping him in a deeper sleep.
Heliox also heavily reduces the work required to actually breathe since it's much lighter and has unique laminar properties according to a few studies. It reduces the metabolic demand for breathing.
Finally, like the video mentions, he was very cold which further reduces metabolic demand. This is commonly used in medical settings. Controlled hypothermia is used pretty commonly during certain surgical procedures to protect sensitive tissues like the brain and heart against ischemia.
It's very possible that the environment at the very least minimized tissue damage from hypoxia.
But I'm definitely not an expert in this. Please correct me if/when I get anything wrong.
Nerd alert!
He put his trust in the lord & saviour Jesus Christ ❤
Ohhh shut up with that bullshit and your fake god hahah
Really loved this one! Thank you for bringing us this great tale Thoughty!
I can’t even imagine. That is so terrifying, and absolutely unexplainable. However, one thing is for sure: Chris is a survivor
You cover such great stories. Love your content 👏
Wow, great video! Never heard of this career, sounds intense for sure. Thanks for making this!
Im a first responder, a 33 year old male had a heart attack and was getting CPR by his wife for over 20 minutes before we arrived. He was brought back. I've never seen someone dead for more than a few minutes and come back. He's perfectly fine now. To this day it still gives me chills.
This was incredible. Thank you for this work and presentation 😮
Remarkable account of fully functioning survival despite obscenely brutal odds. The fact that he regained full functioning of his body so soon after the incident in question is, to me at least, miraculous. And yes, I'm aware of the factors that likely worked in his favor, and I still find it miraculous that he bounced back without any functional impairments, and without any permanent neurological damage. Frankly I'm in awe. But mostly, I'm happy for him + his loved ones.