Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Last Breath
It was a dark & stormy night when the support vessel left the Aberdeen, Scotland, coast on an undersea gas pipeline maintenance mission in the North Sea. Ducan (Woody Harrelson), David (Simu Liu) & Chris (Finn Cole) go down 300 feet in a diving bell to the facilities. While David & Chris in their pressurized suits are making repairs, a malfunction shuts down the vessel’s global stabilizing equipment during the storm causing the vessel to drift away so the tethered drivers need to evacuate immediately. However, Chris’ hose becomes snagged & his air supply is disconnected. He gets left behind with only a 10 minute backup tank. The crew above struggles to get back to Chris. How long can he survive when he runs out of air? 5 minutes? 30 minutes? This high drama on the high seas is based on a true story. The film’s attention to details shows audiences what it is like to be on such a dangerous mission. It takes 4 days for these divers to decompress in a pressurized chamber after such a dive. Footage of the real characters are shown at the end of the film.
Alien gives it 3 “saturation diver” stars out of 4.
