Deepsea Challenge 3D Page #2

Forward cabin.

Okay, I'm on mask comms.

Vision life support.

Shut down the oxygen.

Copy that.

Now, vision one.

Now, what about vision two?

Bail out rebreather.

Isolate the oxygen.

Shut it off.

Right.

Consider drop weights.

Right, drop weights.

Weights coming off.

Weights are off.

And done.

Thats 25 seconds.

Yeah, 25 seconds.

Okay, I give myself a 50I50 chance of survival on that.

(John) The biggest danger is probably C02,

the waste product

from our breath.

And if thats

not cleaned and scrubbed,

the pilot will be

struggling to breathe

and will eventually

pass out and die.

[alarm beeping]

Jim. you okay?

(James)I think that theres a certain kind of healthy paranoia

that goes into the engineering

of a vehicle like this.

You funnel that anxiety into the engineering solutions that make it safe.

Done.

Good.

What I dont like

personally focusing on

is what if somebody had

to call Suzy and tell her?

I hear all the risks

because he tells me.

And then he tells me

all of the things

that hes created

so that it will be safe.

And dome. All right?

Got it. Sure.

And Iets say the dome cue three times.

Action!

Dome, dome, dome.

(Suzy) I've watched him do it now for 16 years.

Whether its with our children

or on a film set

or an expedition,

he sets his bar so high

with safety, with creativity, with everything he does. Cut.

Wow. The whole upper section has all been on and come back off.

Remember I told you everything goes on and comes back off?

Yeah. Yeah.

(James) You got to think a lot about what your priorities are.

You know, I mean, I'm a family man, got five kids.

A lot of people would

set their priorities as...

those are the ultimate priority, and they are to me.

You ready to come out?

But I think a part

of what you give your kids

is more than just your presence. its your example.

All right. Now we got our youngest deep ocean explorer.

Shes already taken

her pink Uggs off.

You want to go for a dive?

You want to go underwater?

If you live in fear and you never follow your dreams,

youve compromised

in a much greater way.

l was in love with the ocean

before we ever met.

It was watching all those great underwater explorers on TV in the '60s

that got me excited

about this alien world

that was right here on Earth

that was as rich and exotic

as anything that

I could imagine myself.

For me, diving,

thats my calm place.

I feel privileged

to get to bear witness

to the imaginative power

of evolution thats created

all these unbelievable

forms of life.

Man, I just am--

I'm inspired by that.

Test, test, test.

One, two, three, four.

First recorded dialogue

underwater, on film,

for a theatrical motion picture

in the history of the world.

Okay.

And, action!

When I chose a career as an adult, it was filmmaking,

and of course the stories

that I chose to tell

were science fiction stories.

I need you to be

closer to the camera.

I need to have the shot cut right about here. Its a close up, okay?

So I make a movie

called The Abyss.

At the core of it is this idea of going deeper and seeing whats down there.

And in it are all these, at the time, cutting edge new pieces of technology

like R0 Vs, like a robot that can fly underwater. What a great concept.

And so at that point, I think for the first time I stepped over a line

from science fiction

into a reality that involved

these kind

of science fictional concepts

of robotics and deep exploration and so on,

and thats when I decided

to do Titanic.

Because I knew that

in the making of that film,

I would get to dive

to the Titanic for real.

That was the first time

I ever went really deep,

the kind of deep that

I used to imagine as a kid.

Pitch black.

Going to another world.

l was struck by how surreal

it was to actually be there

at the wreck

of this famous ship

that had seemed like

a legend to me all my life.

And it wasnt

a legend anymore.

It was a real place

where real people died,

where this great tragedy

had taken place.

And something about looking out at that rusty deck,

knowing that thats right where First Officer Murdock

loaded the lifeboats, or where the ships band played

just had

this huge effect on me.

I really got bitten by the bug of deep ocean exploration.

It was adventure, it was curiosity, and it was an experience

that Hollywood couldn't give me. Whoa.

[crowd cheering]

So, after Titanic I said

you know, I'm just going

to park my day job

as a Hollywood movie maker

and I'm going to go be

a full time explorer.

(James on radio) Okay, Jakes out. Trim is good.

Yeah, this is so much

like flying a helicopter.

Feels like

a pretty stable hover.

(James narrating) If I was going to go back to Titanic,

I wanted to explore the wreck like never before, on the inside.

So we built this little bot.

Pretty cool.

that was designed to be just a little bit smaller than a B deck window.

(James) Okay, I'm going in. [man] Oh, dont do it. Dont do it.

If you I and your tether

right across the glass...

(James) I'm in. Thats what I'm talking about.

Look at that.

Unbelievable.

Those are the leaded windows.

Look at that.

Oh my God. Look at the preservation on that wood.

That second Titanic expedition brought together a core team thats lasted over a decade.

Andrew Wight has run all our expeditions since 200 1.

And Ron Allum is the genius tech guru who has built the gear.

Our next target

would take us even deeper.

The battleship Bismarck.

The infamous

German battleship was sunk

in one of the most furious naval battles of World War ll.

Now it lies

in 16,000 feet of water.

(James on radio) Yeah, copy. We are heading aft

over the starboard secondary turrets. Over.

(James narrating)

The guns are silent now...

but seem ever on guard.

its a grim place.

The whole ship somehow

preserved in the underworld

as a monument

to the madness of war.

(James on radio) We are right over the swastika. Over.

Okay, Elwoods out.

I'm on the move.

Okay, that could be a way in.

You see that

shell hole right there?

I'm going to try

to go in this hole, okay?

This is going to be tight.

Okay. Just inside this door should be the adjutants office.

(James narrating) We were able to identify a few specific rooms

but mostly we just found

total destruction.

The armor piercing shells

just tore the interior apart.

Geez.

This is devastating.

Okay, theres

the starboard propeller.

So, the hit from the torpedo

should be right above us.

That is for sure a hole

right above the rudder.

Okay.

So, thats our torpedo hole.

(James narrating) Our forensic work got the attention

of the deep exploration

community

and we started

to gain some credibility,

you know, all these institutional guys in academia

that have this very sophisticated oceanographic equipment

are kind of looking

over at our stuff saying,

"They have that?

We dont even have that."

The question is

am I a filmmaker

who does exploration

on the side

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