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Top 3 photos with DISTURBING backstories LAST BREATH Part 19 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to share with you three progressively more
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  Speaker 1: disturbing stories, and at the end of each of them,
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  Speaker 1: I will share the photo that is famously associated with them.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get into today's stories.
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  Speaker 1: On December seventeenth, nineteen oh three, the Wright brothers successfully
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  Speaker 1: flew the world's first motor operated airplane. By nineteen ten,
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  Speaker 1: airplanes had improved to the point where they were considered
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  Speaker 1: a reasonable form of travel, and so people began focusing
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  Speaker 1: on how to make them safer. Big safety concern with
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  Speaker 1: airplanes at the time was there was no parachute small
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  Speaker 1: enough or light enough to be taken on board with passengers,
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  Speaker 1: and so if the plane malfunctioned and was crashing.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody had to go down with it.
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  Speaker 1: So in nineteen eleven, a prominent French aviation club offered
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  Speaker 1: a large sum of money to anybody who could design
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  Speaker 1: a parachute for airplane passengers. A man named Franz right Kelt,
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  Speaker 1: who was a tailor in Paris but who had always
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  Speaker 1: had a fascination with aviation, saw this reward in the
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  Speaker 1: paper and decided to take on this challenge. The design
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  Speaker 1: he came up with was not an external device like
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  Speaker 1: a backpack. Instead, it was a full suit with foldable
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  Speaker 1: bat wings that attached to the passenger's arms and connected
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  Speaker 1: all the way down to their ankles. Using his sewing nohow,
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  Speaker 1: he stitched up this totally bizarre looking prototype, and he
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  Speaker 1: attached it to a dummy and threw it off of
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  Speaker 1: his apartment building, and amazingly, the dummy landed lightly on
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  Speaker 1: the ground.
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  Speaker 2: But when Franz, who.
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  Speaker 1: Significantly outweighed this dummy, put on his parachute suit and
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  Speaker 1: left off of the building himself, he did not touch
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  Speaker 1: the ground lightly. He smashed into the ground and broke
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  Speaker 1: his leg. But Franz was undeterred. He made dozens of
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  Speaker 1: changes to his suit. He added material, he subtracted material,
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  Speaker 1: and after a while he felt like it.
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  Speaker 2: Was ready to be submitted to this French aviation club.
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  Speaker 1: But when the club members watched one of Franz's dummies
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  Speaker 1: wearing the suit come crashing into the ground because the
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  Speaker 1: canopy collapsed, they rejected his design. Franz assured them his
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  Speaker 1: design could work, they just needed to see it in
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  Speaker 1: action from a slightly higher altitude. The canopy needed more
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  Speaker 1: time to fully inflate, but the club members were not
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  Speaker 1: buying it, and they told Franz he should just give
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  Speaker 1: up on the design. Franz was offended and decided he
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  Speaker 1: would prove them wrong. So in nineteen eleven, Franz began
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  Speaker 1: petitioning to the city of Paris to allow him to
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  Speaker 1: test his design off of the Eiffel Tower. He thought
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  Speaker 1: if he jumped from one of their platforms, that would
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  Speaker 1: be high enough for his canopy to fully inflate, thereby
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  Speaker 1: showing that his design really did work. And so for
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  Speaker 1: a year, the city of Paris repeatedly rejected Franz every
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  Speaker 1: time he asked for the chance to do this, but
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen twelve something changed. The city said okay, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, Franz, you can test your parachute on the
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  Speaker 1: Eiffel Tower. But what the city didn't know, because Franz
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  Speaker 1: had intentionally kept its secret from them, was he didn't
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  Speaker 1: intend to launch a dummy off of the Eiffel Tower.
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  Speaker 2: Wearing his suit.
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  Speaker 1: He was going to put the parachute suit on and
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  Speaker 1: jump off these seventeen stories himself. And so on February
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  Speaker 1: fourth of that year, Franz arrived at the tower and
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  Speaker 1: standing around the base of it was a throng of
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  Speaker 1: people and journalists who had all read about this experiment
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  Speaker 1: in the newspaper. And so when Franz got out and
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  Speaker 1: promptly put on his parachute suit, the crowd gasped.
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  Speaker 2: They couldn't believe he was going to be the one
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  Speaker 2: jumping off of the tower.
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  Speaker 1: And none of Franz's friends or family knew he was
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  Speaker 1: going to be jumping off the tower himself, and so
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  Speaker 1: they pleaded with him not to do this. Throw a
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  Speaker 1: dummy off. You should not be jumping off. This is
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  Speaker 1: not going to work. Legend has it. Franz turned to
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  Speaker 1: one of his friends and he said, you will see
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  Speaker 1: that my seventy two kilos in my parachute will give
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  Speaker 1: your arguments the most decisive of denials. Then Franz promptly
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  Speaker 1: turned around and began walking up the stairs towards the platform,
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  Speaker 1: and with him was a journalist who brought a camera.
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  Speaker 1: Once Franz reached the platform, the journalist began filming him,
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  Speaker 1: and his video would capture Franz climbing up onto the
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  Speaker 1: railing and then hesitating, and he anxiously begins kind of
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  Speaker 1: rocking back and forth like he's debating whether he's really
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  Speaker 1: going to do this, and then at some point he
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  Speaker 1: works up the courage and he jumps, and immediately his
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  Speaker 1: suit collapses and he slams into the ground, dying instantly.
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  Speaker 1: Another cameraman was on the ground and he filmed Franz's
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  Speaker 1: final jump. Here is a still shot of Franz right
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  Speaker 1: before impact. Forty five year old Florida man Mike Moylan
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  Speaker 1: suddenly shot up in bed and grabbed the sides of
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  Speaker 1: his head, wincing in pain. He had a blinding headache.
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  Speaker 1: He squinted across the room at the alarm clock. It
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  Speaker 1: was four point thirty in the.
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  Speaker 2: Morning on June twenty eight, two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 1: Mike got out of bed and tried to stand up,
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  Speaker 1: but he immediately got dizzy, so he sat back down again,
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  Speaker 1: took a couple of deep breasts, and then he stood
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  Speaker 1: up again, and this time he was steady on his feet.
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  Speaker 1: He walked up across his bedroom into his bathroom, where
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  Speaker 1: he opened the medicine cabinet, grabbed some painkillers, swallowed three
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  Speaker 1: of them, and then walked back into his bedroom. Before
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  Speaker 1: he laid down again, he noticed there was a dark
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  Speaker 1: spot on his pillow. Now it was dark in his room,
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  Speaker 1: so we could really tell what it was. And his wife,
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  Speaker 1: April was fast asleep in bed with him, so we
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to flip the lights on and wake her up.
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  Speaker 1: But he had a feeling that that spot was likely blood,
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  Speaker 1: and so he ran his hands all over his head
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  Speaker 1: to see if there was blood coming off of him,
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  Speaker 1: and he found some on his right ear, and so
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  Speaker 1: he thought to himself, well, I guess my wife must
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  Speaker 1: have elbowed me in my sleep.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I'm bleeding and that's why my head hurts.
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  Speaker 1: And so, feeling content that that was what happened, he
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  Speaker 1: laid back down and waited for the meds to kick
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  Speaker 1: in so he could sleep but after thirty minutes of
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  Speaker 1: complete restlessness, not only had the meds done nothing, that
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  Speaker 1: seemed like his headache was getting progressively worse, and his
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  Speaker 1: ear continued to bleed, and suddenly Mike thought.
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  Speaker 2: To himself, wait a minute, what if I have an.
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  Speaker 1: Aneurysm that's burst and that's why there's blood leaking out
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  Speaker 1: of my ear onto the pillow. A brand aneurysm is
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  Speaker 1: the bulging or ballooning of a blood vessel in the brain,
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  Speaker 1: and if it ruptures, it can be fatal. And so, now,
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  Speaker 1: feeling scared that he was dying, Mike woke up his wife,
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  Speaker 1: April and told her, we've got to go to the
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  Speaker 1: hospital right away.
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  Speaker 2: And April, who's half asleep, seemed very confused, but.
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  Speaker 1: Eventually got the message and they got up. They hopped
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  Speaker 1: in her car and she drove them to the emergency room.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as they got there, doctors x rayed Mike's head. Afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: when Mike and April were sitting in an exam room,
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  Speaker 1: a nurse walked in holding onto an X ray image,
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  Speaker 1: and she held it up to the light and she
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  Speaker 1: pointed to a foreign object in Mike's skull, and she
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  Speaker 1: says well, it looks like he got shot.
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  Speaker 2: Mike couldn't believe it, and neither could the nurse or
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  Speaker 2: any of the doctors. He should have been dead.
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  Speaker 1: April, who was apparently so overcome with emotions, ran out
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  Speaker 1: of the room and Mike was quickly ushered into emergency surgery,
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  Speaker 1: where after a couple of hours, they.
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  Speaker 2: Were able to remove the bullet from his head.
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  Speaker 1: As Mike lay in his hospital bed recovering from the
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  Speaker 1: surgery with his wife next to him, the police showed
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  Speaker 1: up and began asking questions about what happened, and they
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  Speaker 1: initially just believed that a stray bullet must have entered
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  Speaker 1: the home and struck Mike in.
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  Speaker 2: The side of his head.
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  Speaker 1: But after speaking to the couple, April revealed that she
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  Speaker 1: slept with a pistol underneath her pillow and that maybe
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  Speaker 1: it had fired accidentally. And then when they really dug
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  Speaker 1: into this and they asked her more questions about this
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  Speaker 1: gun underneath her pillow, her story began to unravel, and
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  Speaker 1: eventually she would confess that she had in fact tried
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  Speaker 1: to kill Mike and shot him while.
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  Speaker 2: He was sleeping.
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  Speaker 1: She told police the reason she did it is she
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  Speaker 1: had recently destroyed one of the couple's successful businesses, but
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  Speaker 1: Mike had not found out about it yet, and so
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  Speaker 1: she decided she would kill him before he could find out.
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  Speaker 1: After her confession, Mike was crushed and felt like an idiot,
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  Speaker 1: but he would tell police that there were a couple
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  Speaker 1: of red flags about his wife that he noticed.
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  Speaker 2: On the night he actually woke up with his headache.
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  Speaker 2: For one, when he told her, Hey, I want to
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  Speaker 2: go to.
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  Speaker 1: The hospital because I'm bleeding out of my ear, she
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  Speaker 1: apparently took a really long time getting dressed and acted
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  Speaker 1: overly confused about what was happening, well beyond the I'm
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  Speaker 1: just tired routine. And then when they got in the
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  Speaker 1: car and were driving to the hospital, she was driving
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  Speaker 1: impossibly slow and he was asking her to speed up,
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  Speaker 1: and she just wouldn't. And so Mike realized now that
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  Speaker 1: what she was really doing was hoping if she just
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  Speaker 1: delayed long enough, he might die before they reached the hospital. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: he did not. April was jailed on attempted murder charges,
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  Speaker 1: but just a year after being in prison, she was
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  Speaker 1: released on a plea deal. Here is the image of
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  Speaker 1: Mike's X ray where they discovered he had a bullet
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  Speaker 1: in his head. One of the most insane jobs in
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  Speaker 1: the world is being a saturation diver for an oil
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  Speaker 1: and gas company. These highly specialized divers go down to
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  Speaker 1: extreme depths to do construction and demolition on underwater structures.
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  Speaker 1: The extreme pressure on their bodies from being so deep
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  Speaker 1: will cause some of the mixed gas they breathe to
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  Speaker 1: get trapped inside of their body. Now, this is harmless
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  Speaker 1: while it's happening, so while they're down at depth, this
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. But when they ascend, they have to do
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  Speaker 1: what's called decompression stops, where they basically stop in the
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  Speaker 1: water column at certain depths and just wait and allow
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  Speaker 1: these trapped gases to naturally come out of their body. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if they skip these decompression stops and just rush to
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  Speaker 1: the surface, those trapped gases will not leave their body
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  Speaker 1: and they will expand inside of them, causing a condition
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  Speaker 1: called decompression sickness or the bends, and it can be fatal. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these decompression stops get longer and longer the deeper you go,
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  Speaker 1: and in the case of saturation divers, they'll go as
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  Speaker 1: deep as two thousand feet and for reference, in order
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  Speaker 1: to safely ascend from two thousand feet it would take
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  Speaker 1: you about thirty three hours, and so these oil and
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  Speaker 1: gas companies can't afford to have their divers taking thirty
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  Speaker 1: three hours in between dives, and so they came up
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  Speaker 1: with a clever workaround. They built a pressurized chamber system
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  Speaker 1: on board ships and oil rigs where their divers would
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  Speaker 1: live in between their dives. And what this did was
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  Speaker 1: by keeping their divers constantly under pressure, either literally underwater
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  Speaker 1: or in this system, the trapped gases inside of them
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  Speaker 1: didn't have a chance to expand, and so their divers
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get the bends. The divers would live inside of
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  Speaker 1: this incredibly cramped chamber for wes weeks at a time,
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  Speaker 1: getting transported to and from the seafloor inside of this
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  Speaker 1: small pressurized sphere that's called a dive bell that could
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  Speaker 1: detach from the chamber without totally depressurizing the whole system.
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  Speaker 2: At the end of these divers.
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  Speaker 1: Multi week shifts, they would do one long decompression stop
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  Speaker 1: inside of the chamber, and then when they were done,
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  Speaker 1: they'd step out of the chamber and they'd be fine again.
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  Speaker 2: In September of twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Twelve, a thirty two year old saturation diver named Chris
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  Speaker 1: Lemmons was on board a dive ship in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the North Sea. He, along with eleven other divers,
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  Speaker 1: had just started a four week long saturation shift. On
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  Speaker 1: the twelfth of that month, Chris, along with two other
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  Speaker 1: divers named Dave and Duncan, were scheduled to perform routine
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  Speaker 1: maintenance on an oil platform three hundred and thirty feet
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  Speaker 1: below the surface. The North Sea is notorious for terrible weather,
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  Speaker 1: but this day the weather was especially bad and they
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  Speaker 1: considered not doing the dive, but ultimately they decided to
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  Speaker 1: do it anyways. As Chris, Dave, and Duncan put on
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  Speaker 1: their diving equipment and climbed from their living chamber through
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  Speaker 1: the tunnel into the dive bell, the captain of the
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  Speaker 1: ship navigated directly over this oil platform and then flipped
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  Speaker 1: on autopilot mode, which.
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  Speaker 2: Activated dynamic positioning. Now, dive ships rely heavily.
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  Speaker 1: On dynamic positioning, which is really just this high tech
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  Speaker 1: computer that make sure as soon as you turn it
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  Speaker 1: on that the ship does not move from a particular
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  Speaker 1: spot in the water, so regardless of the swells and
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  Speaker 1: the wind, the ship stays steady. And this is really
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  Speaker 1: important when you have divers in the water because the
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  Speaker 1: dive bell is connected to the ship and the divers
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  Speaker 1: are connected to the dive bell, and so if the
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  Speaker 1: ship is moving all over the place, so is the
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  Speaker 1: dive bell and so are the divers, making.
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  Speaker 2: It impossible for the divers to do their job.
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  Speaker 1: Once the captain had the dynamic positioning up and running,
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  Speaker 1: the three divers sealed the door of the dive bell
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  Speaker 1: behind them, and then the dive bell was detached from
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  Speaker 1: the chamber and then lowered through a hole in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the ship into the ocean. Once the bell
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  Speaker 1: got down to three hundred and thirty feet, Chris opened
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  Speaker 1: up a hatch on the bottom of the dive bell
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  Speaker 1: that led directly into the water. Now, because the pressure
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  Speaker 1: inside the bell matches the pressure outside the bell, water
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  Speaker 1: does not come in through this. Duncan was the bellman
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  Speaker 1: for the night, so he would not be going out
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  Speaker 1: and doing any diving. He would be staying in the
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  Speaker 1: bell to support Dave and Chris, and so he helped
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  Speaker 1: them get their big helmets on and connected their umbilical
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  Speaker 1: to each of them. Sat divers when they're outside of
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  Speaker 1: the bell are completely reliant on their umbilical. It's this
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  Speaker 1: long stretch of tubes and wires that are connected directly
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  Speaker 1: to their suit and to their helmet, and it provides
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  Speaker 1: air as well as heat and electricity to their lights,
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  Speaker 1: and it provides radio communication up to the people on
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  Speaker 1: the boat. Once Christ and Dave were all set up,
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  Speaker 1: they slipped through the hole at the bottom of the bell,
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  Speaker 1: which brought them down to this little platform that was
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  Speaker 1: suspended right below the bell, and from there they leapt
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  Speaker 1: off all the way down to the seafloor. Now SAT
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  Speaker 1: divers will say that leap from that platform is both
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  Speaker 1: amazing and terrifying because once you leave the bell, it's
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  Speaker 1: completely pitch black all around you, so there's no reference
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  Speaker 1: point of how fast you're going or even how close
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  Speaker 1: to the ground you are, and so it feels like
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  Speaker 1: you're just sinking into this endless abyss before.
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  Speaker 2: You crash into the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Once Christ and Dave did hit the ground, they stood
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  Speaker 1: up and began walking, and they were directed by the
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  Speaker 1: radio in their helmet which direction they needed to go
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  Speaker 1: to reach this oil platform. The oil platform was eleven
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  Speaker 1: meters tall and it looked like a sort of pyramid
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  Speaker 1: of these big steel pipes. They climbed up the side
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  Speaker 1: until they reached their respective working area, and then they
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  Speaker 1: settled in to do their.
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  Speaker 2: Job, which they expected to take about six hours.
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  Speaker 1: At first, everything was going to plan, but about an
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  Speaker 1: hour into the job, something went terribly wrong. On the surface,
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  Speaker 1: the dynamic positioning computer failed. Now the captain immediately saw
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  Speaker 1: it and just expected the backup computer to.
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  Speaker 2: Kick in and take over.
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  Speaker 1: But in a terrible turn of luck, the backup computer
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  Speaker 1: also failed, and so very quickly this huge dive ship
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  Speaker 1: began drifting in the rough seas, dragging with it the
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  Speaker 1: dive bell and the divers.
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  Speaker 2: Three hundred and thirty feet below.
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  Speaker 1: While the captain struggled to try to fix the system
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  Speaker 1: and get it back online and get the ship back
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  Speaker 1: on station, another crew member hopped on the radio and
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  Speaker 1: called down to Dave and Chris, who were outside of
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  Speaker 1: the dive bell, and told them to abandon the structure
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  Speaker 1: and get back in the bell asap. And Chris and
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  Speaker 1: Dave could tell from the urgency in this person's voice
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  Speaker 1: that this was no drill. This was serious. Chris and
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  Speaker 1: Dave were both positioned on the south side of the
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  Speaker 1: structure about halfway up, and their umbilicals were running straight
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  Speaker 1: up the structure and then northward because the ship was
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  Speaker 1: drifting northward, so neither Chris nor Dave could go around
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  Speaker 1: the structure. They needed to go straight up before being
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  Speaker 1: able to climb their umbilicals back up to the bell,
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  Speaker 1: and so both men began climbing, but they could feel
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  Speaker 1: the tension on their umbilical was getting tighter and tighter,
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  Speaker 1: and Dave managed to get all the way to the
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  Speaker 1: top and he cleared the lip, and as soon as
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  Speaker 1: he was on top, he started getting pulled away from
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  Speaker 1: the structure, and he looked to see if Chris was
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  Speaker 1: also getting pulled, and all he saw was Chris's umbilical
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  Speaker 1: impossibly stretched, still draped over the south side, and he
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  Speaker 1: could not see Chris. And that's when Dave, Duncan and
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  Speaker 1: all the people on the surface heard Chris come over
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  Speaker 1: the radio frantically saying he was stuck on the underwater structure.
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  Speaker 1: His umbilical had gotten wrapped around one of the pylons,
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  Speaker 1: and so through the radio, Chris asked Duncan to give
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  Speaker 1: him more slack, But Duncan, there is no more slack.
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  Speaker 2: We are completely tight here.
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  Speaker 1: You have to get it free, and Chris would say,
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  Speaker 1: I can't unfree it.
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  Speaker 2: It keeps getting tighter and tighter. I can't get it
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  Speaker 2: off the pylon.
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  Speaker 1: And so Dave jumped down onto the platform and tried
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: to pull himself over to Chris, but his own umbilical
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: was getting pulled towards the dive bell, and so he
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: could not help Chris. And so Dave knew he couldn't
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: do anything, so he turned and began crawling up his
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: umbilical towards the dive bell. And as he's climbing, he
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: hears behind him this extremely loud explosion. It sounded like
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: a shotgun going off, and what it was was Chris's
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: umbilical snapping under the tension. As soon as the umbilical snapped,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: it sent Chris flying backwards off the structure, falling towards
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: the ocean floor. Without his umbilical, he wouldn't have had light,
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: he wouldn't have had a radio to talk to anybody
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: up on the boat. He wouldn't have had heat, and
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: the water was just barely above freezing, and so he
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: would have been very cold, very fast, and he would
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: not have had an air supply. Although he would have
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: had two backup canisters on his back that would automatically
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: turn on.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: However, they only gave him five or maybe six minutes
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: of air.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: And so when Chris hit the ocean floor, it would
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: have been eerily quiet and totally completely pitch black. He
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: stood up at some point and looked around him and
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: didn't see anything, but knew he had to get back
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: to the underwater structure. It was his only chance of
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: anybody finding him again, and so he had to make
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: the impossible decision of just choosing a direction and blindly walking,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: not having any idea what you're walking towards.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Choose wrong and you might walk over a cliff.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: But at some point Chris made up his mind and
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: just began walking in a single direction, and miraculously he
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: walked into the underwater structure. He climbed up the side
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: until he got to the top, which was a flat
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: metal grate, and there he looked around and saw there
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: was no dive bell, there was no sign of anything.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: It was just him.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: He was completely all alone, and he must have known
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: at this point that he was running out of air.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: He probably had maybe one or two minutes left, and.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: So he would have been acutely aware that even if
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: they're looking for him, they're not going to find him
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: in time. He's going to die and at some point
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: breathing would have become extremely difficult until there was no
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: more air, and then he would have passed out and killed.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Over back on the surface, the captain was desperately trying
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: to use manual controls to pilot the ship back over
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: where Chris was, but because of how rough the seas were,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: it was proving to be nearly impossible. As the captain scruggled,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: other members of the crew launched a remote controlled vehicle
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: into the water to at least go down and try
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: to find Chris, and so they decided they would just
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: pilot straight to the underwater structure and begin looking around
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: that area. And so for a few anxious minutes, the
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: crew on board the ship watched the camera, which was
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: the live feed coming from this underwater vehicle as it
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: went through totally dark water, and then at some point
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: on the screen the structure just appeared, and the vehicle
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: as it went up towards the top, it got a
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: look at the very top of the structure, and on
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: the screen they saw Chris lying on his side, totally motionless.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: At this point, he had been without air for at
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: least twenty minutes.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: In a last ditch effort, the captain decided to completely
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: power off the ship and its computer and just do
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: a hard reset, something that you would never especially in
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: rough seas, because if it doesn't come.
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: Back on again, you are dead in the water.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: But when they turned it back on again, the ship
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: came on and the computer system came back online, including
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: the dynamic position and computer, and so the captain immediately
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: threw it on autopilot and the ship navigated.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: Right over where Chris's last position was.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: After Chris's umbilical had broken, Dave had managed to climb
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: back up to the bell and he was just standing
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: underneath that platform, right beneath it. And so when the
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: ship got right back over Chris's position, Dave leaped off
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: the platform, got to the seafloor, climbed up the structure,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: grabbed hold of Chris's.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Body, and hauled him back up into the bell.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Once Chris's body was inside the bell, Duncan the bellman
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: removed Chris's helmet, and he saw that his face was
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: blue and he was totally lifeless, but Duncan immediately just
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: gave him mouth to mouth resuscitation, and after giving him
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: two big breaths, Chris came back to life.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: He started gagging and coughing, and he's.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Looking around wide eyed, and Duncan and Dave were looking
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: at him, like, you gotta be kidding me.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: You're supposed to be dead.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: And after about thirty seconds, the color in Chris's face
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: had totally come back, and he was looking at Duncan
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: and Dave and asked them, you know what happened, And
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Duncan and Dave didn't have an answer for him, and
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: so instead all three men just started laughing and hugging.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: They could not believe it. Once Chris was brought back
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: up to the ship, the dive metic looked at him
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: and concluded that nothing was wrong with him. He was
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: perfectly fine, despite the fact he had been without an
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: air supply for over thirty minutes. And three weeks after
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the incident, Chris was back down saturation diving again. Today,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: scientists don't know how Chris survived. The leading theory is
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: that it was just so cold it slowed his heart
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: and his brain down, and that somehow kept him alive.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: But the reality is his survival is a total mystery.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Here is what the crew saw when their remote controlled
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: vehicle found Chris lying on top of that platform.
• 19:50
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