Deepsea Challenge 3D Page #6

went to in The Abyss.

I'm doing it for real.

Its cool.

Surface, Deepsea Challenger,

do you copy? Over.

Surface, Deepsea Challenger,

do you copy? Over?

[man] A comms, were still receiving Deepsea Challenger

but he is not acknowledging

our transmission. Over.

Yeah. Copy.

I've got no voice comms.

Okay,

thats not too promising.

Hes not hearing us

or responding to us.

Depth gauge is not changing.

[th rusters stop]

Whoa.

Just lost my thrusters.

Oh, see, look, this is not good. This is not good.

My thrusters are running away

and they wont respond.

Then they drive by themselves.

I think we got a problem.

Got a lot of failures here

and I'm coming up to my depth.

Without thrusters I cant even stop. This is not good.

As I'm going along, things are starting to fail and glitch one by one.

Everythings getting haywire and I'm getting deeper and deeper.

My cIocks stopped, my depth gauge has stopped, everythings stopped.

Speeds 1.9 knots. I still cant stop from that. I'll hit the bottom too fast.

I've got just a couple

of minutes to sort this out.

We need to really know, Tim,

if theres an emergency.

This is going to be a mess. Yeah, A comms Mermaid, A comms Rib,

we have received telemetry

but no vitals.

I'm going to have to drop some shot. I'm going too fast.

I'm going 2 knots.

And dropping shot, here we go.

270 feet. Hes getting really close.

oh, [bleep].

S[0P'

Surface, Deepsea Challenger.

Descent is aborted.

Hey, about time.

Finally.

I mean, down at 27, 000 feet

and one system goes,

and then another system goes,

and then another system goes.

And pretty soon you realize you're in this kind of dead metal coffin,

and if the weights dont come off, you're toast.

okaY-

Moment of truth.

[cheering]

The good news is its now officially the deepest diving submersible in the world.

Bad news is,

never saw the bottom,

had about five major

systems failures

that prevented me

from going on.

Now, what weve got to do

is go through the tape,

and see exactly what the nature of the failure was.

We did take water ingress in a couple of battery modules.

So these are going to have

to be taken off the sub

and repaired or replaced

before the next dive.

This is a prototype and even though we might have 100 percent spares on items,

were working through those items as we have problems on the dive.

We could come to a point where I could say, "I cant repair this."

(James) When you do this kind of project,

you hit so many hurdles.

Well, I have to say, guys, I picked you guys because you're smart

and you can do this.

And were going to hit hurdles like this where we think

were stopped,

that were dead in the water.

And were going

to think our way through it.

Touchdown.

Surface, I am on the bottom.

Depth, 26, 970 feet.

Lights are working.

Cameras working.

Thrusters working.

We did it, guys.

A lot of very happy

Pe0p|e up here.

(James) So I'm five miles down in the New Britain Trench,

a place thats never

been explored before.

Oh, what's that?

And, bang, right off the bat I find what could be a new species of jellyfish.

[radio chatter]

(James)

Copy you loud and clear.

I'm at the trench wall.

I am working a steep rock cliff. Over.

Alps covered with snow. [Radio] Copy that. Over.

That's cool.

Tiny little anemones

growing out of the rocks.

Look at that, huh?

A beautiful little garden

just hanging out here

at 27, 000 feet.

So weve discovered

this diverse ecosystem

living five miles down

in the New Britain Trench.

But the biggest surprise

comes from the lander

when we see what was

attracted to our bait.

Holy cow.

Amazing.

Wow.

This is really amazing.

This whole trip weve only caught a trickle of small tiny amphipods,

maybe an isopod here or there. Now we've many dozens of giant amphipods.

(James) On one dive, the lander brings back four species

which might be new to science.

That really paid off. I mean, thats pretty amazing. I just cant believe it.

(James) On the lander camera, its a feeding frenzy.

The yre like deep sea piranha

devouring that chicken.

Oh. Look at that.

Yeah, that is clean

to the bone.

This was a full chicken. But look at this.

Look how neatly they've picked every-- It's perfectly clean.

morsel of flesh

off that skeleton.

Look at that.

Absolutely perfect.

I mean,

that's nice work.

The five mile dive

was our last test.

Were as ready

as were going to be.

its time to go

to the deep end of the pool.

The Challenger Deep is in the heart of the Mariana Trench.

Its 1,300 miles

farther north.

its a pit in the trench 40 miles long and two miles wide

thats so deep, you could put Mount Everest on the bottom,

with four Empire State buildings stacked on top

and not even

break the surface.

Okay, so were coming up

on the dive site,

and weve got a problem.

We were supposed to be

out here a month ago

and now the trade winds

are blowing every day

and the sea state

has gotten pretty ugly.

Ive been dreaming about this place since I was a little kid.

You know its interesting. It just looks like any other piece of ocean anywhere.

But its knowing that seven miles straight down below our feet

is the deepest place

in the worlds oceans.

But conditions

are pretty marginal.

Probably about

the absolute limit

that we can

launch in right here.

This is going to test

everybody to the limit.

(Dave)

Okay, let's stabilize her.

(James) So were doing an unmanned launch

to see if we can actually

get the sub back on the ship.

Okay, just get lines

nice and tight. Steady.

(James)

Ifit gets away on us...

its a 12-ton wrecking ball.

(Da ve) Let her stabilize. Let her stabilize.

Goldy! Line out!

Steady now.

Get her steady.

Take in all the slack.

All the slack.

Come on, Harman, get it in.

Tighten her, Gavin.

Gavin, tight.

All stop. Take her back to the sea, Steve, back in the sea.

Goldy, let your line out!

(James) The only way to stop it swinging

is to drop it

back in the water.

Keep it coming!

Goldy, let it out.

Let it out, please.

Everyone, let your lines out. All lines out.

Get it out!

Okay, steady!

Hold it there.

(James)

Were over the limit.

If the sea state

doesnt come do wn,

theres no way I can dive.

Its just this

weather window.

Its like a gift

from the sea right there.

Gives us a shot. Its already well down, mid afternoon down, holding.

Past midnight and then zero six the following morning.

Thats when it starts to rocket back up. So thats our hard out.

So now its finally

the big dive

and were going

to launch at night

in a heavy sea

which we never trained for.

Knowing that somebodys life is at stake is very, very stressful.

And then you compound that

with an incredibly

aggressive schedule.

There are calculated risks.

(John)

Complacency is a killer.

The ocean can turn on you

in a heartbeat.

So its very important that everybody is on their main game.

(Dave) Tie the tagIines. Tighten up. Tighten up.

Gavin, tighten up.

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