Deepsea Challenge 3D Page #7

Okay, just get lines

nice and tight. Steady.

All lines stop.

All stop.

(James) If we dont dive now, then weve wasted our time.

(Dave) Okay, steady there. Steady there.

All stop, all stop.

(James)

Because were out of time.

This ships got to go back.

(Dave)

Steady.

(James) Weve got to dive, even if it means

weve got to dive at night which we d said we wouldnt do,

even if it means

weve got to dive

in a two-and-a-haIf meter sea,

which we said

was beyond our capability.

Now is where we really have to pit ourselves against the elements.

And verticals down.

Well, were supposed to be trying to dive by 0400, which is in 20 minutes.

I predict well be about...

I'll be descending

by about 4:
30.

A little bit late,

but not much.

Were on target right now.

Should be the deepest place

on the planet.

Theres of course

an element of fear in it,

because its a risk, and...

but if you dont go out and do something in life, nothing happens.

I'm only minutes away from diving the Challenger Deep

and the guy

who inspired that dream

is right here

on board with us.

Don Walsh is back

at the site of his own dive

52 years later.

Thanks,babe.

Have fun.

It will be fun.

I love you.

Love you, too, babe.

All right, Jim. All right, buddy. See you in the sunshine.

Okay. See you when you come out. All the best.All right. Thanks a lot.

Have a good one. God speed below. All right. Thanks a lot.

And pan tilt.

Yup. Got it.

And hold.

Final checks.

Leads clear.

Okay, lower away.

(Da ve)

Okay, standby.

Okay, Steve, when you're ready, mate. If you just take up.

Coming UP-

Coming UP-

Okay, Donny.

Nice and tight, Donny.

Thats a good angle, Donny. Thats great. Good. Well done, guys.

Take her off.

That's good.

Okay, standby for that transition, guys. Standby for transition.

You need to be

taking up, Gavin.

[chatter]

Keep going, guys.

Goldy, a bit more out, please.

Careful, Donny.

Out more, Donny.

Here we go.

(Tim) Deepsea Challenger, you are 100 meters

due north of your intended

drop point. Over.

(James) Yeah, copy that, Tim. Thanks.

Hatch is not leaking.

Hatch looks good so far.

(Tim) Yeah, Jim, were going to, if you're comfortable,

we'll pump both bags together

once you're ready--

(James)

Say again, please.

Deepsea Challenger,

five minutes from drop zone.

Copy, five minutes

from drop zone.

Deepsea Challenger,

surface check.

Yeah, copy that.

Vision 1 is 20-19-19.

Carbon dioxide is 0.5 percent.

Looking good, guys.

Oh, man.

We got a hatch deploy

on the soft ballast.

The soft ballast bag has deployed. The hatch popped.

(Dave) Yeah roger, Ive got that. I can see that.

(James) The soft ballast is a key safety system.

If it blows, were supposed to pull the sub out and fix it.

But if we do that,

we miss our dive window.

All right, tell the divers to cut it away.

Were going without it.

Over.

(Dave)

Yeah, roger. Standby.

Take everything.

The hatch, too. Over.

Deepsea Challenger, position update is two minutes to drop point.

All right, Deepsea Challenger,

ready when you are.

Yeah, ready for a descent.

Okay, just confirmed

the divers are in position

and then

were going to launch.

Okay, ready

to initiate descent.

And release, release, release.

Had a bit of a rocky start.

4.6 knots. Were going like a bat out of hell here.

Just the way we like it.

Surface, surface,

Deepsea Challenger.

Depth two tick

zero, zero feet.

Speed 4.2 knots. Over.

Deepsea Challenger, copy.

Understood.

Depth 11,580 feet.

Speed 3.2 knots.

I used to think Titanic was the deepest place I could imagine.

Now I'm sailing past that depth like its the foot of my drive way.

16, 000 feet.

Thats the depth of Bismarck,

the deepest I'd been

before this expedition.

But its less than halfway

to where I'm going.

Surface, Deepsea Challenger.

Depth, 18,000.

External temperature,

34. 4 degrees.

It's getting cold.

You're doing all these things as you're going do wn, its all on the checklist.

You do this at this depth and you do that at another depth,

and you know,

you're setting up the cameras

and booting up the sonar,

checking battery status,

testing the thrusters,

comms, navigation.

Everything that needs

to be ready before you Iand.

And its all by the numbers.

And then for the first time, on any dive, I'm through my checklist.

27, 000 feet.

Thats deeper than any other sub in the world can reach.

Beyond any hope of rescue.

And theres still

9,000 feet to go.

Theres nothing to do

but sit and think

about the pressure

building up on the hull.

It just gets really quiet.

Its peaceful.

It's lonely.

And you feel yourself just getting farther and farther and farther

from the world

that you came from.

Vertical rate is 1.3 knots.

Time to shed some shot.

Get some speed off here.

35,200 feet.

488 feet to go.

Get everything on.

On. Good.

And number three.

Thats all lights facing down.

Lets get

this spotlight aimed do wn.

Altitude 110 feet.

100 feet.

Should be seeing

something pretty soon.

All the way down.

There we go.

We have bottom.

Okay.

Coming down.

Easy, easy, 935)!-

More braking.

Touchdown.

Surface, this is

Deepsea Challenger.

I am on the bottom.

Depth is 35,756 feet.

And life supports good.

Everything looks good.

Oh, my God.

Whatever I thought I was going to say at that moment...

wasnt going to be that.

This is how the NASA team

must have felt

when the Eagle landed.

This is just great.

(Suzy) Deepsea Challenger. Deepsea Challenger.

God speed to you, baby.

I love you.

Love you too, baby. All the way from the heart of the ocean.

Oh!

Surface be advised, I'm starting my transect to the north. Over.

Going deeper into the ocean is going deeper into the subconscious.

So we have this fantasy that the deeper we are, the bigger the monsters.

Man.

It is just

flat and featureless.

Don't even

see any animal tracks.

In reality, the deeper we go,

the smaller the life forms.

No critters, no signs of critters. No tracks on the ground.

Unbelievable.

Like the moon.

I know there are new species

of bacteria in that sediment,

but I have this powerful feeling that I've dived deeper

than the limits

of life itself.

All right, Iets get ourselves a sediment sample.

Be advised, I'm taking

my contingency sample. Over.

I see a lot

of hydraulic oil coming out.

Looks like

we got ourselves a big leak.

All right.

I better get

my sample while I can.

I think we might

have a sample there.

Okay, now...

Lets get a look

at this watch.

Is it still ticking?

Oh yeah.

16,000 pounds per square inch?

No problem.

Uh oh. This is not good.

This thing is just dying.

Yeah. The hydraulics are completely dead.

Most of our lives,

we huddle together

in the warmth

of human company.

Down here, alone,

theres a purity.

We sense the vastness

of all that we dont know.

Oh, I think

my horizon just came up.

IbeHeve

we have found a slope.

Deepsea Challenger,

surface, comms check.

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