1 00:00:38,747 --> 00:00:40,908 There are human footprints on the moon. 2 00:00:40,999 --> 00:00:44,287 And Rover is exploring the surface of Mars. 3 00:00:44,378 --> 00:00:46,084 We can Google a satellite picture 4 00:00:46,171 --> 00:00:48,662 of any place on the Earth's surface. 5 00:00:48,757 --> 00:00:50,713 So we often think that our planet 6 00:00:50,801 --> 00:00:52,962 has been completely explored. 7 00:00:53,053 --> 00:00:56,341 But the depths of the oceans remain a mystery 8 00:00:56,431 --> 00:01:00,424 and the extreme depths have barely been glimpsed. 9 00:01:00,519 --> 00:01:05,058 Down there is the last great frontier of our world. 10 00:01:05,148 --> 00:01:08,390 There are 12 trenches that are over 4 miles deep. 11 00:01:08,485 --> 00:01:11,477 They're thousands of miles long and have a combined area 12 00:01:11,572 --> 00:01:14,405 greater than North America. 13 00:01:14,491 --> 00:01:18,609 That's a dark continent down there, waiting to be explored. 14 00:01:18,704 --> 00:01:23,869 Unseen by human eyes because the machines don't exist to take us there. 15 00:01:23,959 --> 00:01:25,950 It's my dream to build such a machine, 16 00:01:26,044 --> 00:01:27,830 and get inside it 17 00:01:27,921 --> 00:01:30,628 and dive to the deepest places in the world, 18 00:01:30,716 --> 00:01:33,799 to explore them with my own eyes. 19 00:01:53,322 --> 00:01:55,938 I started preparing for these dives when I was a kid, 20 00:01:56,033 --> 00:01:58,115 getting in a cardboard box. 21 00:01:58,201 --> 00:02:00,567 Close the lid, and imagine it was a submarine. 22 00:02:00,662 --> 00:02:03,745 Boosh. 23 00:02:06,710 --> 00:02:10,578 Drawing with a crayon, you know, some gauges. 24 00:02:10,672 --> 00:02:12,208 Fuel and... 25 00:02:12,299 --> 00:02:14,039 depth. 26 00:02:14,134 --> 00:02:16,841 Yeah, I was a real science geek, you know, 27 00:02:16,928 --> 00:02:20,591 but for me it was all about trying to understand the world, 28 00:02:20,682 --> 00:02:24,140 understand the limits of possibility. 29 00:02:30,150 --> 00:02:31,560 Hey, little buddy. 30 00:02:38,950 --> 00:02:41,987 I think it was from being a kid in the '60s 31 00:02:42,079 --> 00:02:44,786 when we were doing so much exploration. 32 00:02:44,873 --> 00:02:48,707 From going to the moon and Jacques Cousteau was exploring the oceans 33 00:02:48,794 --> 00:02:51,957 and, you know, I just loved that stuff. 34 00:02:52,047 --> 00:02:57,167 I couldn't think of anything cooler than to be a deep ocean explorer. 35 00:02:57,260 --> 00:03:01,754 I can remember the first time that the deep ocean captured my imagination. 36 00:03:01,848 --> 00:03:06,763 It was, you know, when Trieste went to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. 37 00:03:06,853 --> 00:03:10,345 The Bathyscaphe would pass its ultimate test in 1960, 38 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:14,058 its third model carrying Piccard's son, Jacques, and Don Walsh 39 00:03:14,152 --> 00:03:17,360 35, 000 feet down into the Mariana Trench. 40 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:24,034 The Bathyscaphe Trieste was an amazing machine for its time. 41 00:03:24,121 --> 00:03:26,954 A massive 150-ton steel balloon 42 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:32,285 filled with gasoline for flotation. 43 00:03:32,379 --> 00:03:34,290 It had a 14-ton pressure sphere 44 00:03:34,381 --> 00:03:36,337 for the crew slung underneath. 45 00:03:38,885 --> 00:03:42,173 Oxygen, one thin bar. 46 00:03:42,264 --> 00:03:44,300 Scrubber fans on. 47 00:03:44,391 --> 00:03:46,382 Damn it. 48 00:03:46,476 --> 00:03:48,512 Tachometer's taken a hit. 49 00:03:48,603 --> 00:03:51,720 We go without it. 50 00:03:51,815 --> 00:03:55,182 Inside the sphere, U. 8. Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh 51 00:03:55,277 --> 00:03:57,359 and scientist Jacques Piccard 52 00:03:57,446 --> 00:04:00,563 would pilot Trieste to the bottom of Challenger Deep. 53 00:04:03,034 --> 00:04:05,776 It was a dive into history. 54 00:04:05,871 --> 00:04:08,829 But no one has been back since. 55 00:04:24,097 --> 00:04:28,716 Just like on Trieste, the heart of our new sub is a steel sphere, 56 00:04:28,810 --> 00:04:30,766 forged in fire. 57 00:04:33,899 --> 00:04:38,188 52 years later, there's still no better solution. 58 00:04:38,278 --> 00:04:43,693 The sphere is nature's perfect shape for resisting pressure. 59 00:04:43,784 --> 00:04:47,197 And it's going to protect me from the crushing force down at the bottom. 60 00:04:47,287 --> 00:04:50,120 Over 16,000 pounds per square inch. 61 00:04:53,210 --> 00:04:57,829 That's like having two Humvees stacked on your thumbnail. 62 00:04:57,923 --> 00:05:01,086 It's taken us three years to design and build this sphere. 63 00:05:01,176 --> 00:05:07,217 We have to heat treat the steel... 64 00:05:07,307 --> 00:05:09,423 to be strong enough to withstand the weight 65 00:05:09,518 --> 00:05:11,804 of seven vertical miles of water. 66 00:05:19,569 --> 00:05:22,026 We have to know that the sphere is safe. 67 00:05:22,113 --> 00:05:23,728 If it buckles on a real dive, 68 00:05:23,824 --> 00:05:26,110 it'll implode at hypersonic speed 69 00:05:26,201 --> 00:05:30,240 and I get chummed into a meat cloud in about two microseconds. 70 00:05:35,585 --> 00:05:39,294 The clinks I heard when we tested it the first time, 71 00:05:39,381 --> 00:05:42,339 when we got rid of the stress cracking, that hasn't happened. 72 00:05:42,425 --> 00:05:46,009 It's 16,000 psi. Looks like we've done it. 73 00:05:46,096 --> 00:05:48,737 Yeah, you got to be happy with that. We're all the way to the top. 74 00:05:48,807 --> 00:05:50,889 So, it's as you predicted? It's as we predicted. 75 00:05:50,976 --> 00:05:54,844 Well done. Good on you, Ron. 76 00:05:54,938 --> 00:05:59,773 When you design technology to do something new, 77 00:05:59,860 --> 00:06:02,852 it's going to look strange. 78 00:06:02,904 --> 00:06:05,771 The Deepsea Challenger is a vertical torpedo. 79 00:06:05,866 --> 00:06:10,155 It's designed to scream down through the water column at high speed. 80 00:06:10,245 --> 00:06:13,362 The reason for that is we'd just rather spend the time at the bottom 81 00:06:13,456 --> 00:06:17,495 working, exploring, than going through seven miles of water. 82 00:06:17,586 --> 00:06:19,872 There are certain fish that actually will hover 83 00:06:19,963 --> 00:06:22,830 over the reef in a vertical position. 84 00:06:22,924 --> 00:06:25,415 So, nature provided an example 85 00:06:25,510 --> 00:06:28,343 of the fact that it's not crazy to think that a submersible 86 00:06:28,430 --> 00:06:31,388 can move through the water in an upright position. 87 00:06:35,437 --> 00:06:37,223 Deepsea Challenger is not a stunt vehicle 88 00:06:37,314 --> 00:06:41,057 to just go down and set a depth record. 89 00:06:41,151 --> 00:06:45,815 It's designed from the ground up as a science platform. 90 00:06:45,906 --> 00:06:48,864 There's a hydraulic manipulator arm for taking samples. 91 00:06:48,950 --> 00:06:51,111 A sample tray in the science door. 92 00:06:51,202 --> 00:06:53,818 There are push cores for taking sediment. 93 00:06:53,914 --> 00:06:56,280 A payload bay for instruments. 94 00:06:56,374 --> 00:07:01,038 And two 3D cameras, one on the boom and one on the arm. 95 00:07:01,129 --> 00:07:04,462 Every single thing on this vehicle has to be built from scratch 96 00:07:04,549 --> 00:07:06,835 to withstand the crushing pressure. 97 00:07:09,804 --> 00:07:11,965 It's just this kind of ragtag group 98 00:07:12,057 --> 00:07:13,843 working in this little tiny shop 99 00:07:13,934 --> 00:07:15,799 next to a plumbing supply place on that side 100 00:07:15,894 --> 00:07:18,886 and a plywood supply place on that side. 101 00:07:18,980 --> 00:07:23,019 You know, nobody even knows what we're doing in here. 102 00:07:23,109 --> 00:07:25,475 And one of the most amazing things about this vehicle 103 00:07:25,570 --> 00:07:31,440 is that it shrinks over two inches during the dive from pressure. 104 00:07:31,534 --> 00:07:35,618 That's enough to shear aircraft grade bolts. 105 00:07:35,705 --> 00:07:38,412 Yeah, it's still got to go in quite a way. 106 00:07:38,500 --> 00:07:42,584 So the sphere is actually held onto the sub by straps. 107 00:07:42,671 --> 00:07:45,003 But we're also fighting the pressure of time. 108 00:07:45,090 --> 00:07:47,706 Our expedition ship just arrived 109 00:07:47,801 --> 00:07:52,261 and we're supposed to leave in less than three weeks, but we don't have a sub. 110 00:07:52,347 --> 00:07:54,463 It's still in pieces all over the shop. 111 00:07:54,557 --> 00:07:56,639 How big a problem is that? 112 00:07:56,726 --> 00:07:59,513 I need to know when we're going to see some action on that sub, 113 00:07:59,604 --> 00:08:01,344 so we can start doing some integration. 114 00:08:01,439 --> 00:08:02,804 If you're saying 3rd of January 115 00:08:02,899 --> 00:08:04,730 we're going to have it wired out, 116 00:08:04,818 --> 00:08:07,104 we're still weeks away from getting integration done. 117 00:08:07,195 --> 00:08:09,277 We have to have an integration schedule. 118 00:08:09,364 --> 00:08:13,107 I want that schedule put up on the wall right over there, okay? 119 00:08:13,201 --> 00:08:16,284 Who's got to have their stuff plugged in, ready to test, when. 120 00:08:16,371 --> 00:08:20,205 And everybody is going to be individually accountable for their stuff to that schedule. 121 00:08:20,291 --> 00:08:23,012 We've got a ship sitting at that pier down there with nothing to do. 122 00:08:23,086 --> 00:08:28,046 Right now it's just on the clock like a taxi meter. 123 00:08:28,133 --> 00:08:31,296 A taxi meter at $35,000 a day. 124 00:08:31,386 --> 00:08:33,968 Jim's management style is often to put people under pressure 125 00:08:34,055 --> 00:08:36,262 and get results from that and... 126 00:08:36,349 --> 00:08:39,716 that can work really well, but when you're in a R&D project, 127 00:08:39,811 --> 00:08:43,804 sometimes things just aren't going to work. 128 00:08:43,898 --> 00:08:46,059 And we've got some mechanical problems here 129 00:08:46,151 --> 00:08:48,642 that we'll solve over the next couple of weeks. 130 00:08:48,737 --> 00:08:51,149 Hopefully before Christmas Eve, if we can do it. 131 00:08:51,239 --> 00:08:54,151 If not, it will be Boxing Day. 132 00:08:54,242 --> 00:08:55,903 We're not going to compromise. 133 00:08:55,994 --> 00:08:57,655 You don't compromise. 134 00:08:57,746 --> 00:09:01,079 Not on the stuff that keeps you alive. 135 00:09:01,166 --> 00:09:04,329 The most important thing is the weight system. 136 00:09:04,419 --> 00:09:07,911 Basically you strap a bunch of weight on the sub at the surface 137 00:09:08,006 --> 00:09:10,998 and then you let go and the thing sinks like a rock. 138 00:09:11,092 --> 00:09:13,799 So, literally, if the weights don't come off, 139 00:09:13,887 --> 00:09:16,799 the sub doesn't come up. 140 00:09:16,890 --> 00:09:19,472 So when you've got a system that's survival critical, 141 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:26,556 the only way to be confident is to test it over and over and over and over. 142 00:09:26,649 --> 00:09:29,311 When you dive to the bottom of the ocean you have to face the fact 143 00:09:29,402 --> 00:09:32,894 that there are a hundred horrible ways to die. 144 00:09:32,947 --> 00:09:36,235 In the unlikely event that there is a break in any of the seals, 145 00:09:36,326 --> 00:09:39,284 in even the penetrator or the hatch... Closing hatch. 146 00:09:39,370 --> 00:09:43,033 the water will bust through with the strength of which it could cut a man in half. 147 00:09:43,124 --> 00:09:44,660 There's the risk of fire. 148 00:09:44,751 --> 00:09:47,743 It's Jim's personal nightmare. 149 00:09:47,837 --> 00:09:49,828 Go! Drill. Fire, fire, fire! 150 00:09:49,923 --> 00:09:51,663 Forward cabin. 151 00:09:59,516 --> 00:10:02,383 Okay, I'm on mask comms. 152 00:10:02,477 --> 00:10:05,139 Vision life support. Shut down the oxygen. 153 00:10:05,230 --> 00:10:06,970 Copy that. 154 00:10:07,065 --> 00:10:09,681 Now, vision one. Now, what about vision two? 155 00:10:09,776 --> 00:10:11,562 Bail out rebreather. Isolate the oxygen. 156 00:10:11,653 --> 00:10:13,109 Shut it off. Right. 157 00:10:13,196 --> 00:10:14,902 Consider drop weights. 158 00:10:14,989 --> 00:10:17,981 Right, drop weights. Weights coming off. 159 00:10:18,076 --> 00:10:19,361 Weights are off. 160 00:10:19,452 --> 00:10:22,819 And done. That's 25 seconds. 161 00:10:22,914 --> 00:10:25,075 Yeah, 25 seconds. 162 00:10:25,166 --> 00:10:28,533 Okay, I give myself a 50I50 chance of survival on that. 163 00:10:28,628 --> 00:10:30,994 The biggest danger is probably C02, 164 00:10:31,089 --> 00:10:32,795 the waste product from our breath. 165 00:10:32,882 --> 00:10:34,543 And if that's not cleaned and scrubbed, 166 00:10:34,634 --> 00:10:36,215 the pilot will be struggling to breathe 167 00:10:36,302 --> 00:10:38,088 and will eventually pass out and die. 168 00:10:41,683 --> 00:10:44,140 Jim. you okay? 169 00:10:44,227 --> 00:10:47,594 I think that there's a certain kind of healthy paranoia 170 00:10:47,689 --> 00:10:51,102 that goes into the engineering of a vehicle like this. 171 00:10:51,192 --> 00:10:56,778 You funnel that anxiety into the engineering solutions that make it safe. 172 00:10:56,865 --> 00:10:59,948 Done. Good. 173 00:11:00,034 --> 00:11:02,946 What I don't like personally focusing on 174 00:11:03,037 --> 00:11:06,746 is what if somebody had to call Suzy and tell her? 175 00:11:06,833 --> 00:11:09,916 I hear all the risks because he tells me. 176 00:11:10,003 --> 00:11:12,085 And then he tells me all of the things 177 00:11:12,172 --> 00:11:15,710 that he's created so that it will be safe. 178 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:18,041 And dome. All right? Got it. Sure. 179 00:11:18,136 --> 00:11:20,343 And let's say the dome cue three times. 180 00:11:20,430 --> 00:11:22,842 Action! 181 00:11:22,932 --> 00:11:25,093 Dome, dome, dome. 182 00:11:27,687 --> 00:11:29,973 I've watched him do it now for 16 years. 183 00:11:30,064 --> 00:11:32,146 Whether it's with our children or on a film set 184 00:11:32,233 --> 00:11:35,396 or an expedition, he sets his bar so high 185 00:11:35,486 --> 00:11:42,904 with safety, with creativity, with everything he does. Cut. 186 00:11:42,994 --> 00:11:47,704 Wow. The whole upper section has all been on and come back off. 187 00:11:47,790 --> 00:11:52,124 Remember I told you everything goes on and comes back off? Yeah. Yeah. 188 00:11:52,212 --> 00:11:55,704 You got to think a lot about what your priorities are. 189 00:11:55,798 --> 00:12:00,337 You know, I mean, I'm a family man, got five kids. 190 00:12:00,428 --> 00:12:03,044 A lot of people would set their priorities as... 191 00:12:03,139 --> 00:12:06,427 those are the ultimate priority, and they are to me. 192 00:12:06,517 --> 00:12:08,348 You ready to come out? 193 00:12:08,436 --> 00:12:10,518 But I think a part of what you give your kids 194 00:12:10,605 --> 00:12:14,348 is more than just your presence. It's your example. 195 00:12:14,442 --> 00:12:18,310 All right. Now we got our youngest deep ocean explorer. 196 00:12:18,404 --> 00:12:21,896 She's already taken her pink Uggs off. 197 00:12:21,991 --> 00:12:24,357 You want to go for a dive? You want to go underwater? 198 00:12:24,452 --> 00:12:27,194 If you live in fear and you never follow your dreams, 199 00:12:27,288 --> 00:12:29,870 you've compromised in a much greater way. 200 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:35,953 I was in love with the ocean before we ever met. 201 00:12:36,047 --> 00:12:40,381 It was watching all those great underwater explorers on TV in the '60s 202 00:12:40,468 --> 00:12:43,505 that got me excited about this alien world 203 00:12:43,596 --> 00:12:48,761 that was right here on Earth that was as rich and exotic 204 00:12:48,851 --> 00:12:53,060 as anything that I could imagine myself. 205 00:12:53,147 --> 00:12:59,939 For me, diving, that's my calm place. 206 00:13:00,029 --> 00:13:03,317 I feel privileged to get to bear witness 207 00:13:03,408 --> 00:13:07,447 to the imaginative power of evolution that's created 208 00:13:07,537 --> 00:13:11,075 all these unbelievable forms of life. 209 00:13:11,165 --> 00:13:13,406 Man, I just am... I'm inspired by that. 210 00:13:13,501 --> 00:13:16,368 Test, test, test. One, two, three, four. 211 00:13:16,462 --> 00:13:20,171 First recorded dialogue underwater, on film, 212 00:13:20,258 --> 00:13:23,591 for a theatrical motion picture in the history of the world. 213 00:13:23,678 --> 00:13:25,794 Okay. And, action! 214 00:13:25,888 --> 00:13:29,972 When I chose a career as an adult, it was filmmaking, 215 00:13:30,018 --> 00:13:32,600 and of course the stories that I chose to tell 216 00:13:32,687 --> 00:13:34,427 were science fiction stories. 217 00:13:34,522 --> 00:13:36,683 I need you to be closer to the camera. 218 00:13:36,774 --> 00:13:39,891 I need to have the shot cut right about here. It's a close up, okay? 219 00:13:44,824 --> 00:13:47,566 So I make a movie called The Abyss. 220 00:13:47,660 --> 00:13:52,495 At the core of it is this idea of going deeper and seeing what's down there. 221 00:13:55,918 --> 00:14:00,787 And in it are all these, at the time, cutting edge new pieces of technology 222 00:14:00,882 --> 00:14:05,751 like R0 Vs, like a robot that can fly underwater. What a great concept. 223 00:14:05,845 --> 00:14:08,757 And so at that point, I think for the first time I stepped over a line 224 00:14:08,848 --> 00:14:13,433 from science fiction into a reality that involved 225 00:14:13,519 --> 00:14:15,726 these kind of science fictional concepts 226 00:14:15,813 --> 00:14:18,350 of robotics and deep exploration and so on, 227 00:14:18,399 --> 00:14:20,264 and that's when I decided to do Titanic. 228 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,271 Because I knew that in the making of that film, 229 00:14:22,362 --> 00:14:25,479 I would get to dive to the Titanic for real. 230 00:14:28,534 --> 00:14:30,650 That was the first time I ever went really deep, 231 00:14:30,745 --> 00:14:34,033 the kind of deep that I used to imagine as a kid. 232 00:14:34,123 --> 00:14:37,707 Pitch black. Going to another world. 233 00:14:43,591 --> 00:14:47,049 I was struck by how surreal it was to actually be there 234 00:14:47,136 --> 00:14:49,001 at the wreck of this famous ship 235 00:14:49,097 --> 00:14:51,383 that had seemed like a legend to me all my life. 236 00:14:51,474 --> 00:14:53,806 And it wasn't a legend anymore. 237 00:14:53,893 --> 00:14:57,351 It was a real place where real people died, 238 00:14:57,438 --> 00:15:00,976 where this great tragedy had taken place. 239 00:15:10,451 --> 00:15:12,817 And something about looking out at that rusty deck, 240 00:15:12,912 --> 00:15:15,745 knowing that that's right where First Officer Murdock 241 00:15:15,790 --> 00:15:20,329 loaded the lifeboats, or where the ship's band played 242 00:15:20,420 --> 00:15:22,911 just had this huge effect on me. 243 00:15:30,304 --> 00:15:33,216 I really got bitten by the bug of deep ocean exploration. 244 00:15:33,307 --> 00:15:37,971 It was adventure, it was curiosity, and it was an experience 245 00:15:38,062 --> 00:15:41,896 that Hollywood couldn't give me. Whoa. 246 00:15:57,582 --> 00:16:01,291 So, after Titanic I said 247 00:16:01,377 --> 00:16:04,915 you know, I'm just going to park my day job 248 00:16:05,006 --> 00:16:07,713 as a Hollywood movie maker 249 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:11,418 and I'm going to go be a full time explorer. 250 00:16:11,512 --> 00:16:15,096 Okay, Jake's out. Trim is good. 251 00:16:15,183 --> 00:16:17,799 Yeah, this is so much like flying a helicopter. 252 00:16:17,894 --> 00:16:20,101 Feels like a pretty stable hover. 253 00:16:20,188 --> 00:16:22,520 If I was going to go back to Titanic, 254 00:16:22,607 --> 00:16:26,191 I wanted to explore the wreck like never before, on the inside. 255 00:16:26,277 --> 00:16:28,814 So we built this little bot... - Pretty cool. 256 00:16:28,905 --> 00:16:34,150 that was designed to be just a little bit smaller than a B deck window. 257 00:16:34,243 --> 00:16:37,110 Okay, I'm going in. Oh, don't do it. Don't do it. 258 00:16:37,205 --> 00:16:39,742 If you I and your tether right across the glass... 259 00:16:39,832 --> 00:16:42,824 I'm in. That's what I'm talking about. 260 00:16:47,048 --> 00:16:50,131 Look at that. Unbelievable. 261 00:16:50,218 --> 00:16:52,960 Those are the leaded windows. 262 00:16:53,054 --> 00:16:55,761 Look at that. 263 00:16:55,848 --> 00:16:59,557 Oh my God. Look at the preservation on that wood. 264 00:17:10,655 --> 00:17:15,775 That second Titanic expedition brought together a core team that's lasted over a decade. 265 00:17:15,868 --> 00:17:19,986 Andrew Wight has run all our expeditions since 2001. 266 00:17:20,081 --> 00:17:24,745 And Ron Allum is the genius tech guru who has built the gear. 267 00:17:24,835 --> 00:17:27,542 Our next target would take us even deeper. 268 00:17:32,176 --> 00:17:34,132 The battleship Bismarck. 269 00:17:36,973 --> 00:17:39,180 The infamous German battleship was sunk 270 00:17:39,267 --> 00:17:43,055 in one of the most furious naval battles of World War ll. 271 00:17:43,104 --> 00:17:46,596 Now it lies in 16,000 feet of water. 272 00:17:46,691 --> 00:17:48,773 Yeah, copy. We are heading aft 273 00:17:48,859 --> 00:17:51,976 over the starboard secondary turrets. Over. 274 00:17:52,071 --> 00:17:54,357 The guns are silent now... 275 00:17:54,448 --> 00:17:57,440 but seem ever on guard. 276 00:17:57,535 --> 00:18:00,743 It's a grim place. 277 00:18:00,830 --> 00:18:04,698 The whole ship somehow preserved in the underworld 278 00:18:04,792 --> 00:18:07,875 as a monument to the madness of war. 279 00:18:07,962 --> 00:18:11,705 We are right over the swastika. Over. 280 00:18:14,010 --> 00:18:18,299 Okay, Elwood's out. I'm on the move. 281 00:18:18,389 --> 00:18:20,471 Okay, that could be a way in. 282 00:18:20,558 --> 00:18:22,139 You see that shell hole right there? 283 00:18:22,226 --> 00:18:24,137 I'm going to try to go in this hole, okay? 284 00:18:24,228 --> 00:18:26,935 This is going to be tight. 285 00:18:27,023 --> 00:18:33,394 Okay. Just inside this door should be the adjutant's office. 286 00:18:33,487 --> 00:18:36,445 We were able to identify a few specific rooms 287 00:18:36,490 --> 00:18:39,482 but mostly we just found total destruction. 288 00:18:39,577 --> 00:18:42,910 The armor piercing shells just tore the interior apart. 289 00:18:42,997 --> 00:18:45,238 Geez. 290 00:18:45,333 --> 00:18:46,618 This is devastating. 291 00:18:48,794 --> 00:18:51,285 Okay, there's the starboard propeller. 292 00:18:51,380 --> 00:18:54,543 So, the hit from the torpedo should be right above us. 293 00:18:59,597 --> 00:19:03,590 That is for sure a hole right above the rudder. 294 00:19:03,684 --> 00:19:06,471 Okay. So, that's our torpedo hole. 295 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:08,385 Our forensic work got the attention 296 00:19:08,481 --> 00:19:10,346 of the deep exploration community 297 00:19:10,441 --> 00:19:12,477 and we started to gain some credibility, 298 00:19:12,568 --> 00:19:15,776 you know, all these institutional guys in academia 299 00:19:15,863 --> 00:19:18,445 that have this very sophisticated oceanographic equipment 300 00:19:18,532 --> 00:19:20,614 are kind of looking over at our stuff saying, 301 00:19:20,701 --> 00:19:23,613 "They have that? We don't even have that." 302 00:19:23,663 --> 00:19:25,824 The question is am I a filmmaker 303 00:19:25,915 --> 00:19:27,655 who does exploration on the side 304 00:19:27,750 --> 00:19:30,366 or am I an explorer who does filming on the side? 305 00:19:38,719 --> 00:19:41,335 When he decided ultimately to do Avatar, 306 00:19:41,430 --> 00:19:44,342 he was really debating back and forth, 307 00:19:44,433 --> 00:19:49,223 was he going to quit directing as a Hollywood director 308 00:19:49,313 --> 00:19:51,929 and just go do expeditions, 309 00:19:52,024 --> 00:19:54,811 which was something he... he loves it 310 00:19:54,902 --> 00:19:58,486 He lives it. He breathes it. I mean, he loves making films, too. 311 00:19:58,572 --> 00:20:00,437 But there's something about... 312 00:20:00,533 --> 00:20:02,148 about Jim and the sea. 313 00:20:02,243 --> 00:20:05,576 Look at this thing. It's incredible. 314 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:10,372 My problem is I'm curious. 315 00:20:10,459 --> 00:20:15,374 I'm a curious monkey and I need to go see for myself, you know. 316 00:20:15,464 --> 00:20:19,298 I've seen some pretty astonishing things in the depths, 317 00:20:19,385 --> 00:20:22,172 things that fill your soul with wonder. 318 00:20:25,933 --> 00:20:29,050 What always gets me is how life adapts. 319 00:20:29,145 --> 00:20:30,806 It can adapt to the crushing pressure. 320 00:20:30,896 --> 00:20:33,512 It can adapt to the absolute darkness. 321 00:20:33,607 --> 00:20:35,848 It can feed off jets of water 322 00:20:35,943 --> 00:20:39,026 that are hot enough to melt lead. 323 00:20:43,492 --> 00:20:46,950 But the question is, can life adapt to the ultimate pressure 324 00:20:47,037 --> 00:20:51,246 36,000 feet down? Maybe. 325 00:20:51,333 --> 00:20:55,246 The only way to know is to go down there and take a look. 326 00:21:00,593 --> 00:21:03,710 We first met Jim on The Abyss 25 years ago. 327 00:21:03,804 --> 00:21:06,466 He was maniacally focused and driven 328 00:21:06,557 --> 00:21:11,301 and now I think he actually enjoys inspiring the group. 329 00:21:11,395 --> 00:21:14,057 He's trying to reach the state of perfection 330 00:21:14,148 --> 00:21:17,982 and achievement and he wants everyone to kind of rise to that level. 331 00:21:18,068 --> 00:21:21,401 Pushing people is not about yelling at them. 332 00:21:21,489 --> 00:21:24,652 It's about creating goals that are achievable, 333 00:21:24,742 --> 00:21:27,074 whether they think they're achievable or not. 334 00:21:27,161 --> 00:21:30,653 Yeah, the only reason we're filling it is so we can pressure test the things 335 00:21:30,748 --> 00:21:33,330 because we need to start this pressure qualification process. 336 00:21:33,417 --> 00:21:38,377 We've never controlled a J-box from the pack, but the J-box... Why not? 337 00:21:38,464 --> 00:21:41,672 Because we haven't got to that stage in the integration yet. 338 00:21:41,759 --> 00:21:45,251 Every single time you've gone up a tier in the architecture 339 00:21:45,346 --> 00:21:48,463 you've had to pull everything apart and solder resisters. 340 00:21:48,557 --> 00:21:51,299 What makes you think it's going to be any different now? 341 00:21:51,393 --> 00:21:52,724 I designed the J-boxes. 342 00:21:55,606 --> 00:21:57,221 Ooh. 343 00:21:57,316 --> 00:22:01,935 You just stuck your neck out so far. 344 00:22:02,029 --> 00:22:05,772 This isn't an option for him. He has to do it. 345 00:22:05,866 --> 00:22:08,027 It's such an internal drive for him 346 00:22:08,118 --> 00:22:12,487 that once he's started that train, it's not going to stop. 347 00:22:12,581 --> 00:22:16,039 We're coming to that funnel where... Everything needs to be done at once. 348 00:22:16,126 --> 00:22:18,663 We got five people want in this sphere at one time. 349 00:22:18,754 --> 00:22:20,619 But only one person can work in it. 350 00:22:20,714 --> 00:22:22,670 Five people want the lower pod at one time, 351 00:22:22,758 --> 00:22:26,000 but there's only one person can work in it. 352 00:22:26,095 --> 00:22:27,801 We're not project planning no more. 353 00:22:27,888 --> 00:22:30,254 What we're doing is we're firefighting. Yeah. 354 00:22:30,349 --> 00:22:33,386 They're all tired. They're all working 16-hour days. 355 00:22:33,477 --> 00:22:37,766 To say that our team is not ready yet to go out to sea is an understatement. 356 00:22:37,857 --> 00:22:42,692 We're so far from ready it's not even funny. 357 00:22:42,778 --> 00:22:47,021 Our biggest enemy at the moment is time. 358 00:22:47,116 --> 00:22:49,983 Well, we obviously underestimated the systems integration. 359 00:22:50,077 --> 00:22:52,534 So the new deadline is February 6th. 360 00:22:52,621 --> 00:22:56,034 Come hell or high water, that's when we 're sailing. 361 00:22:59,336 --> 00:23:02,499 Nobody outside the project has seen Deepsea Challenger 362 00:23:02,590 --> 00:23:06,174 and the first to do so is Don Walsh, 363 00:23:06,260 --> 00:23:10,048 the only living person who's been to the world's deepest spot. 364 00:23:10,139 --> 00:23:12,175 And by crazy coincidence, he's arriving 365 00:23:12,266 --> 00:23:15,053 on the anniversary of his famous dive. 366 00:23:15,144 --> 00:23:17,681 This is Kawasaki racing green. 367 00:23:17,771 --> 00:23:19,432 These are racing colors, baby. 368 00:23:19,523 --> 00:23:22,686 You had seen conceptual drawings. 369 00:23:22,776 --> 00:23:25,609 You had an idea and you knew that it was underway. 370 00:23:25,696 --> 00:23:29,063 What is your reaction to this? 371 00:23:29,158 --> 00:23:33,777 Oh, I'm very excited. I mean, what took you so long? 52 years, I mean... 372 00:23:33,871 --> 00:23:35,111 To the day. Where have you been? 373 00:23:35,205 --> 00:23:36,741 To the day. 374 00:23:36,790 --> 00:23:39,156 So, Don, do you have any tips for Jim 375 00:23:39,251 --> 00:23:42,914 at about 20,000 feet if he hears a crack? 376 00:23:43,005 --> 00:23:44,586 If you can hear it, you're still alive, 377 00:23:44,673 --> 00:23:46,914 you might as well keep on with the dive. 378 00:23:47,009 --> 00:23:49,000 You never hear the one that gets you. 379 00:23:51,013 --> 00:23:53,299 Jacques Piccard and myself made a dive 380 00:23:53,390 --> 00:23:55,722 to the deepest place in the world oceans. 381 00:24:00,356 --> 00:24:03,689 The motivation was to test out a platform and not to do science. 382 00:24:03,776 --> 00:24:05,983 That would come later. 383 00:24:06,070 --> 00:24:09,608 And what better test than the ultimate depth in the ocean? 384 00:24:14,286 --> 00:24:18,325 Passing 3,800 fathoms. 385 00:24:27,633 --> 00:24:29,874 Coming up on 5,000 fathoms. 386 00:24:32,304 --> 00:24:34,761 What the hell was that? 387 00:24:34,848 --> 00:24:36,839 We are still descending. 388 00:24:36,934 --> 00:24:38,344 Turn everything off. 389 00:24:41,271 --> 00:24:44,980 At 30,000 feet, there was this huge bang 390 00:24:45,067 --> 00:24:48,355 and we didn't know what it was. 391 00:24:48,445 --> 00:24:51,482 I looked through the window in the entrance hatch. 392 00:24:51,573 --> 00:24:54,189 You better come take a look at this. 393 00:24:54,284 --> 00:24:59,119 And I could see this crack across that large acrylic window. 394 00:24:59,206 --> 00:25:03,165 In my opinion, this is not a serious problem. 395 00:25:03,252 --> 00:25:05,413 There is no reason to ascend. 396 00:25:07,506 --> 00:25:08,666 Agreed. 397 00:25:08,757 --> 00:25:11,043 Uh-huh? Uh-huh. 398 00:25:11,135 --> 00:25:14,127 So, if in fact there'd been a pressure boundary failure, 399 00:25:14,221 --> 00:25:16,928 we would have been dead before we knew it. 400 00:25:17,016 --> 00:25:19,177 There were no indications of problems, 401 00:25:19,268 --> 00:25:22,305 so we decided to continue on down. 402 00:25:22,396 --> 00:25:24,808 Okay. I can see the bottom now. 403 00:25:24,898 --> 00:25:26,229 Coming up slowly. 404 00:25:28,235 --> 00:25:31,022 There it is. Looks like we found it, Jacques. 405 00:25:37,244 --> 00:25:39,781 After we landed, we stirred up a big cloud of sediment 406 00:25:39,872 --> 00:25:43,330 and it was just like somebody had painted the front of the window white. 407 00:25:43,417 --> 00:25:45,157 It was like looking into a bowl of milk. 408 00:25:45,252 --> 00:25:47,163 C'est la vie. 409 00:25:50,841 --> 00:25:55,551 And after about 20 minutes, we realized it wasn't going to go away very soon. 410 00:25:58,974 --> 00:26:02,887 So we had 5 hours 15 minutes down, 20 minutes on the bottom, 411 00:26:02,978 --> 00:26:05,720 and about 3 hours coming back up. 412 00:26:28,253 --> 00:26:30,744 And the purpose of this is to signal the fact 413 00:26:30,839 --> 00:26:35,674 that we're transitioning from building a sub to operating a sub. 414 00:26:35,761 --> 00:26:40,255 So, Andrew Wight came up with a crazy, potentially brilliant idea 415 00:26:40,349 --> 00:26:42,385 that since we're heading to Guam 416 00:26:42,476 --> 00:26:44,341 to dive the Challenger Deep, 417 00:26:44,436 --> 00:26:46,802 we're going to be going right through Papua New Guinea. 418 00:26:46,897 --> 00:26:49,980 There happens to be a spot. They call it Jacquinot Bay. 419 00:26:50,067 --> 00:26:53,150 This is a perfect place to sea trial the sub. 420 00:26:53,237 --> 00:26:55,357 The thing that you've all got to start to realize now 421 00:26:55,405 --> 00:26:57,487 is that you're going to have no support 422 00:26:57,574 --> 00:26:59,439 other than the people that are around you. 423 00:26:59,535 --> 00:27:02,242 You've just got to now get into a different mindset. 424 00:27:02,329 --> 00:27:05,696 So, whoever you're bunking with, be good friends, 425 00:27:05,791 --> 00:27:07,747 because you're going to be with them for a while. 426 00:27:07,835 --> 00:27:10,793 If you snore, well, too bad. 427 00:27:10,879 --> 00:27:13,120 Everybody here is here because you're good. 428 00:27:13,215 --> 00:27:15,126 Because you're good at what you do. 429 00:27:15,217 --> 00:27:17,458 And you've proven yourselves to the project. 430 00:27:17,553 --> 00:27:20,761 And we're going to go out and do something truly extraordinary. 431 00:27:20,848 --> 00:27:24,056 There's always a ramp up right before the expedition leaves. 432 00:27:24,143 --> 00:27:25,679 There's an acceleration of energy 433 00:27:25,769 --> 00:27:27,305 and a lot of last minute problems 434 00:27:27,396 --> 00:27:29,637 as everything's coming together. 435 00:27:29,731 --> 00:27:32,091 We're running a race and you just have that burst of energy 436 00:27:32,151 --> 00:27:34,267 comes from some where and you just push hard. 437 00:27:38,073 --> 00:27:40,280 I think we got everybody. 438 00:27:48,667 --> 00:27:53,081 There are a lot of very worthy goals on this project, 439 00:27:53,172 --> 00:27:56,505 but one of them is just the fun of the challenge. 440 00:27:56,592 --> 00:27:58,503 It's the fun of being able to say 441 00:27:58,594 --> 00:28:00,926 look what a little group of people 442 00:28:01,013 --> 00:28:05,427 with no adult supervision can do if they put their minds to it. 443 00:28:10,564 --> 00:28:12,225 Who wants to dive a sub today? 444 00:28:12,316 --> 00:28:15,274 Ar. Ar. Exactly. 445 00:28:18,906 --> 00:28:21,989 All right. See you in the sunshine. God speed below. 446 00:28:36,924 --> 00:28:39,085 And hold. Final checks. 447 00:28:45,057 --> 00:28:46,763 Lower away. 448 00:28:48,769 --> 00:28:49,884 Looking good. 449 00:28:55,567 --> 00:28:56,932 Starboard. 450 00:28:58,987 --> 00:29:00,648 When the hatch gets bolted shut, 451 00:29:00,739 --> 00:29:02,730 there's a moment where you're suddenly 452 00:29:02,824 --> 00:29:05,907 in a very quiet, very finite world. 453 00:29:05,994 --> 00:29:09,077 It's like being in a space capsule. 454 00:29:18,173 --> 00:29:20,664 Okay, Challenger, stand by to get wet. 455 00:29:20,759 --> 00:29:22,340 Yeah, roger that. Ready. 456 00:29:24,763 --> 00:29:27,220 Boosh. 457 00:29:27,307 --> 00:29:31,141 Hatch is secure. No leaks. 458 00:29:31,228 --> 00:29:36,894 Please make a note that the camera pan tilt, the pan is wired backwards. 459 00:29:36,984 --> 00:29:38,895 COPY- 460 00:29:38,986 --> 00:29:41,693 I'm not getting a reading on the altimeter at all. 461 00:29:41,780 --> 00:29:45,443 Should I be? Yeah, you should be. We're looking into it. 462 00:29:49,204 --> 00:29:53,197 Okay, the camera boom is also wired backwards. 463 00:29:53,292 --> 00:29:55,499 Your sonar head is upside down, 464 00:29:55,585 --> 00:29:58,622 therefore it will relay that information back to front. 465 00:29:58,714 --> 00:30:00,955 Okay. All right. That explains that. 466 00:30:01,049 --> 00:30:06,419 So pretty much everything that can be wired backwards is wired backwards. 467 00:30:09,349 --> 00:30:13,262 Now, be advised temperature is 100 degrees. 100 degrees. 468 00:30:13,353 --> 00:30:16,311 We 're not having a good time here. 469 00:30:16,398 --> 00:30:22,018 Okay, I think it's time to descend one meter. Over. 470 00:30:25,282 --> 00:30:26,692 Woohoo! 471 00:30:27,951 --> 00:30:29,987 S.O., do you copy? Over. 472 00:30:36,710 --> 00:30:39,873 We can go ahead and terminate this test dive 473 00:30:39,963 --> 00:30:44,332 because the A comms, while submerged, are not acceptable. Over. 474 00:30:49,681 --> 00:30:52,844 That's the big dive. One meter. 475 00:30:52,934 --> 00:30:55,016 Okay, so the test in Sydney Harbour 476 00:30:55,103 --> 00:30:58,766 showed us exactly how ready we 're not. 477 00:30:58,857 --> 00:31:00,893 Well, the compass worked. 478 00:31:00,984 --> 00:31:03,771 But we've got to get out of the harbor 479 00:31:03,862 --> 00:31:06,023 and test the sub in deeper water. 480 00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:20,242 This dive will also provide Mike 481 00:31:20,337 --> 00:31:24,501 with our first opportunity to film Deepsea Challenger underwater. 482 00:31:24,591 --> 00:31:27,378 Have fun. Yeah, thanks. 483 00:31:27,469 --> 00:31:29,209 I mean, it'll be fun if everything works 484 00:31:29,262 --> 00:31:32,299 or even if 50 percent of it works. Exactly. 485 00:31:32,391 --> 00:31:35,007 All right. We'll see you on the bottom. 486 00:31:35,102 --> 00:31:39,220 Okay, trial dive ready to release. 487 00:31:39,314 --> 00:31:41,680 Standby to initiate descent. 488 00:31:41,775 --> 00:31:44,312 Release, release, release. 489 00:31:48,031 --> 00:31:49,612 See you later, buddy. 490 00:31:52,119 --> 00:31:54,235 Surface, surface. Deepsea Challenger. 491 00:31:54,329 --> 00:31:56,115 Do you copy? Over? 492 00:31:56,206 --> 00:31:58,242 Copy that, Deepsea Challenger. 493 00:31:58,333 --> 00:32:02,417 A comms signal is coming through strong and clear. 494 00:32:02,504 --> 00:32:07,498 Yeah, copy, surface. I am approaching the bottom, dropping shot to slow descent. 495 00:32:12,973 --> 00:32:16,215 200 units and down thrust in. Just easing down. 496 00:32:20,105 --> 00:32:23,063 And touchdown. 497 00:32:23,150 --> 00:32:25,391 Surface, I am on the bottom. 498 00:32:25,485 --> 00:32:28,272 Depth 62 feet. Over. 499 00:32:28,363 --> 00:32:32,572 Super, super successful dive. Everything worked. 500 00:32:32,659 --> 00:32:34,900 Yeah, you guys have pulled off a pretty amazing feat. 501 00:32:34,995 --> 00:32:37,361 You know, to have a second dive in the open ocean 502 00:32:37,456 --> 00:32:39,162 and for pretty much everything to work, 503 00:32:39,249 --> 00:32:41,535 in the history of manned submersible operations, 504 00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:43,116 is pretty much unheard of. 505 00:32:43,211 --> 00:32:44,701 Well done. 506 00:32:44,796 --> 00:32:46,161 I'm proud of the team. 507 00:32:46,256 --> 00:32:48,338 They really came through. 508 00:32:48,425 --> 00:32:50,381 We 're ready to sail. 509 00:32:53,054 --> 00:32:56,012 Hollywood director James Cameron has paid tribute 510 00:32:56,099 --> 00:32:59,262 to an Australian filmmaker and his American colleague 511 00:32:59,352 --> 00:33:02,344 who were killed in a helicopter crash south of Sydney. 512 00:33:02,439 --> 00:33:04,771 Andrew was flying his own helicopter 513 00:33:04,858 --> 00:33:07,019 with American filmmaker Mike de Gruy 514 00:33:07,110 --> 00:33:09,101 when it crashed just after take off 515 00:33:09,196 --> 00:33:11,983 on this tiny airstrip at Jaspers Brush. 516 00:33:12,032 --> 00:33:14,865 I found out about Andrew's accident, 517 00:33:14,951 --> 00:33:18,785 you know, I was busy organizing things. 518 00:33:18,872 --> 00:33:22,490 I remember Jim walking straight across the deck to me 519 00:33:22,584 --> 00:33:25,621 and he looked at me and he said, "Dive's aborted." 520 00:33:25,712 --> 00:33:28,749 I'll never forget the look on his face. He... 521 00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:32,173 He went white as a sheet and then he said, 522 00:33:32,260 --> 00:33:35,343 "We've lost Mike and Andrew." 523 00:33:35,430 --> 00:33:39,139 Immediately after the accident, I was just so sick at heart 524 00:33:39,226 --> 00:33:43,970 in general, that I just... it just felt wrong 525 00:33:44,064 --> 00:33:46,100 to even be trying to continue. 526 00:33:54,658 --> 00:33:57,024 There was just such a devastation in his voice 527 00:33:57,118 --> 00:34:01,532 and I had never seen him... 528 00:34:01,623 --> 00:34:04,080 ever in that way. 529 00:34:04,167 --> 00:34:07,079 Andrew and Mike were like family to me. 530 00:34:07,170 --> 00:34:10,253 They were my deep sea brothers 531 00:34:10,340 --> 00:34:13,707 and true explorers. 532 00:34:13,802 --> 00:34:18,216 It just went chomp. I was literally inside the jaws of the shark. 533 00:34:18,306 --> 00:34:20,388 Can't get any closer. It was incredible. 534 00:34:20,475 --> 00:34:23,717 There was just this big rip across the fabric of reality 535 00:34:23,812 --> 00:34:25,932 for these families and you think, "Is this worth it?" 536 00:34:26,022 --> 00:34:27,853 Maybe just risks shouldn't be taken. 537 00:34:27,941 --> 00:34:31,684 Maybe the consequences to our families are too great. 538 00:34:31,778 --> 00:34:33,860 I think the one thing I've learned from all of this 539 00:34:33,947 --> 00:34:38,941 is don't leave things to deal with later, you know? 540 00:34:39,035 --> 00:34:42,027 If you love people and you want to spend time with them, then do it. 541 00:34:42,122 --> 00:34:47,583 Don't put it off till later because it's... 542 00:34:47,669 --> 00:34:49,785 It just goes. It just goes in a heartbeat. 543 00:34:53,675 --> 00:34:57,167 Over the next, I want to say 24 to 48 hours, 544 00:34:57,262 --> 00:35:00,095 there just seemed to be this sense 545 00:35:00,181 --> 00:35:04,515 that the way to give the situation meaning 546 00:35:04,603 --> 00:35:09,097 was not to walk away and have it have been for nothing. 547 00:35:09,190 --> 00:35:10,930 Just how do we do it? 548 00:35:11,026 --> 00:35:12,516 How do we muster up the strength? 549 00:35:12,611 --> 00:35:14,476 How do we put the pieces back together? 550 00:35:16,406 --> 00:35:19,739 We set up a war room and we got real serious. 551 00:35:19,826 --> 00:35:22,192 And the funny thing was that everybody stepped up. 552 00:35:27,917 --> 00:35:30,624 I hate it when people say, "It's what they would have wanted." 553 00:35:30,712 --> 00:35:36,173 But, frankly, they'd both kick my ass if we wimped out now. 554 00:35:36,259 --> 00:35:40,298 It's the right thing to do, to give purpose and meaning 555 00:35:40,388 --> 00:35:44,597 to what Andrew and Mike stood for as explorers. 556 00:35:47,979 --> 00:35:50,345 So we're on our way to Papua New Guinea, 557 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,146 to the New Britain Trench, 558 00:35:52,233 --> 00:35:54,269 where we're going to do our test dives, 559 00:35:54,361 --> 00:35:56,727 going progressively deeper and deeper. 560 00:36:13,713 --> 00:36:16,295 This place is everything Andrew promised, 561 00:36:16,383 --> 00:36:18,590 calm deep water right offshore, 562 00:36:18,677 --> 00:36:20,292 sheltered by the island. 563 00:36:20,387 --> 00:36:22,969 These are perfect diving conditions. 564 00:36:25,392 --> 00:36:28,054 The shadow of the accident is still hanging over us. 565 00:36:28,144 --> 00:36:32,353 There's this sense of dread and a feeling that we're just not ready. 566 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,726 Let's dive. 567 00:36:34,818 --> 00:36:37,901 And that's exactly when you've got to push through it. 568 00:36:37,987 --> 00:36:39,818 Right now these guys need a win. 569 00:36:39,906 --> 00:36:42,739 We need to get a deep dive under our belts 570 00:36:42,826 --> 00:36:46,910 and then maybe we can face going all the way to Challenger Deep. 571 00:36:46,996 --> 00:36:49,032 See you in the sunshine. 572 00:36:49,124 --> 00:36:50,739 Coming UP- 573 00:36:53,294 --> 00:36:55,535 Okay, it's on you, Steve. Nice and slow. 574 00:36:55,630 --> 00:36:57,911 Sometimes you have to push and you have to make that dive, 575 00:36:57,924 --> 00:36:59,664 even if you think you're not ready. 576 00:37:02,178 --> 00:37:04,840 That gives people a sense of accomplishment. 577 00:37:04,931 --> 00:37:08,799 They'll come back and say, "We did it guys, " you know? 578 00:37:08,893 --> 00:37:10,474 "Look What We did." 579 00:37:10,562 --> 00:37:12,723 Okay, standby for the transition, guys. 580 00:37:12,814 --> 00:37:15,430 Whether we achieve our ultimate goal or not, 581 00:37:15,525 --> 00:37:19,484 I think we've all learned an incredible amount 582 00:37:19,571 --> 00:37:23,530 about each other and how you work together as a team. 583 00:37:23,616 --> 00:37:25,072 And here we go. 584 00:37:27,996 --> 00:37:30,738 Keep it coming, Donny. Keep it coming. 585 00:37:35,336 --> 00:37:38,453 Deepsea Challenger, standby to rotate to dive position. 586 00:37:38,548 --> 00:37:40,413 Yeah, copy that. 587 00:37:40,508 --> 00:37:43,796 One minute to target area. 588 00:37:43,887 --> 00:37:45,093 Copy. 589 00:37:52,187 --> 00:37:54,678 Deepsea Challenger, you're on target now. 590 00:37:54,773 --> 00:37:57,185 On target now. 591 00:37:57,275 --> 00:37:59,266 Wait, one, I just got to do final checks. 592 00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:00,691 Okay, final checks. 593 00:38:00,779 --> 00:38:03,771 Vision one. 18 percent O2. 594 00:38:03,865 --> 00:38:07,778 CO2 is 0.3 percent. 595 00:38:07,869 --> 00:38:10,281 Scrubber fan is running. 596 00:38:10,371 --> 00:38:13,659 To ward B bus, the lowest bus at 87 percent. Looking good. 597 00:38:13,750 --> 00:38:16,708 Depth gauge is working. Compass is working. 598 00:38:16,795 --> 00:38:17,955 Now, wait, one. 599 00:38:20,465 --> 00:38:22,706 Okay, ready for descent. Are you ready? 600 00:38:22,801 --> 00:38:25,383 Yeah, Deepsea Challenger, whenever you're ready 601 00:38:25,470 --> 00:38:27,256 we'll initiate launch. 602 00:38:27,347 --> 00:38:28,883 Okay, here we go. 603 00:38:28,973 --> 00:38:31,840 And release, release, release. 604 00:38:34,813 --> 00:38:36,929 Deepsea Challenger, you are now released. 605 00:38:37,023 --> 00:38:39,639 Safe travels. See you. 606 00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:49,407 I think my heart rate's up a little bit at the moment 607 00:38:49,494 --> 00:38:53,954 that I tell them to release the sub and I start to drop. 608 00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:56,531 But right away there's so many things to do, 609 00:38:56,626 --> 00:38:59,333 establishing communications and all that. 610 00:38:59,420 --> 00:39:03,459 Surface, Deepsea Challenger, do you copy? Over. 611 00:39:05,802 --> 00:39:11,889 Deepsea Challenger, A comms Mermaid, how do you copy? Over. 612 00:39:11,975 --> 00:39:15,058 Copy you, John, loud and clear. You have a good comms voice. 613 00:39:15,144 --> 00:39:18,887 Copy that. The skipper says it's like I'm talking to my grandma. 614 00:39:18,982 --> 00:39:21,143 Do you want a biscuit? 615 00:39:25,446 --> 00:39:27,402 Surface Deepsea Challenger, 616 00:39:27,490 --> 00:39:34,862 I'm at 2,873 feet, vertical speed 1.4 knots. 617 00:39:34,956 --> 00:39:37,743 Okay, I'm going to drop some shot. 618 00:39:43,715 --> 00:39:46,582 .6 knots. Okay, definitely slowing down. 619 00:39:46,676 --> 00:39:49,543 Should be seeing something pretty soon. 620 00:39:49,637 --> 00:39:51,298 Ah ha. 621 00:39:51,389 --> 00:39:52,595 That's it. 622 00:39:52,682 --> 00:39:54,923 Definitely have bottom. 623 00:40:00,899 --> 00:40:02,935 Cool terrain coming up here. 624 00:40:03,026 --> 00:40:05,642 Slowing. 625 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:12,406 Contact. 626 00:40:12,493 --> 00:40:15,781 Surface, Deepsea Challenger, I am on the bottom. 627 00:40:15,872 --> 00:40:21,663 Depth 3,074 feet. Over. 628 00:40:21,753 --> 00:40:26,087 Deepsea Challenger, copy that. You are on the bottom. 629 00:40:31,763 --> 00:40:36,132 The lander is 250 meters. 630 00:40:36,225 --> 00:40:38,307 Yeah, hang on. I'm just learning 631 00:40:38,394 --> 00:40:41,056 how to fly this thing over the bottom. 632 00:40:41,147 --> 00:40:43,763 I have good control of the vehicle 633 00:40:43,858 --> 00:40:46,315 and I seem to be in a stable hover. 634 00:40:49,614 --> 00:40:51,900 Coming back around south. 635 00:40:54,535 --> 00:40:56,025 Oh, great. 636 00:40:56,120 --> 00:40:57,985 Big holothurian. 637 00:40:59,916 --> 00:41:02,453 Wow, he's gorgeous. 638 00:41:02,543 --> 00:41:03,043 Nice. 639 00:41:07,548 --> 00:41:11,006 Whoa! He's attacking me! 640 00:41:11,094 --> 00:41:13,756 Boosh. Oh, he's not digging that. 641 00:41:13,846 --> 00:41:16,758 Sorry about the thruster, buddy. 642 00:41:16,849 --> 00:41:20,182 That is a big sea cucumber. 643 00:41:20,269 --> 00:41:23,102 He has no idea how beautiful he is. 644 00:41:26,567 --> 00:41:29,229 What the heck are you? 645 00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:32,312 Oh yeah, polychaete. 646 00:41:32,407 --> 00:41:35,149 Basically I get so carried away shooting the critters 647 00:41:35,243 --> 00:41:37,529 that I forget I've got work to do. 648 00:41:37,620 --> 00:41:40,862 I need to get good with the manipulator arm. 649 00:41:40,957 --> 00:41:42,913 We're not just out here doing test dives. 650 00:41:43,001 --> 00:41:45,117 We're doing science, too, as we're going along. 651 00:41:45,211 --> 00:41:47,873 So I've got to get some rock samples. 652 00:41:47,964 --> 00:41:52,754 Otherwise the science team aren't going to be happy campers. 653 00:41:52,844 --> 00:41:54,084 Gotcha. 654 00:41:56,764 --> 00:41:58,425 All right. 655 00:41:58,516 --> 00:42:00,552 My first sample. 656 00:42:01,728 --> 00:42:03,309 I'm proud of it. 657 00:42:04,897 --> 00:42:07,889 I am at the lander. Over. 658 00:42:09,694 --> 00:42:11,434 And we also built a lander. 659 00:42:11,529 --> 00:42:13,315 It's this unmanned science vehicle 660 00:42:13,406 --> 00:42:17,615 that basically just free falls to the bottom. 661 00:42:17,702 --> 00:42:20,318 It's got lights and high resolution cameras 662 00:42:20,413 --> 00:42:24,201 and it can take water samples and so on. 663 00:42:24,292 --> 00:42:25,907 It's even got this arm that drops down 664 00:42:26,002 --> 00:42:27,913 with a baited trap so it can attract 665 00:42:28,004 --> 00:42:30,290 all the bottom foragers from miles around. 666 00:42:36,679 --> 00:42:39,671 Lander is released. On ascent. Over. 667 00:42:45,188 --> 00:42:47,645 I think of human knowledge as being our headlights 668 00:42:47,732 --> 00:42:49,723 and they're shining out into the darkness, 669 00:42:49,817 --> 00:42:52,980 and right beyond those lights is something else. 670 00:42:53,071 --> 00:42:56,313 And all we have to do is move forward a little bit more 671 00:42:56,407 --> 00:42:58,068 and that truth will be revealed, 672 00:42:58,159 --> 00:43:01,026 or that new disco very will be revealed. 673 00:43:21,682 --> 00:43:25,345 Deepsea Challenger, confirm request to ascend. 674 00:43:25,436 --> 00:43:26,596 COPY- 675 00:43:26,687 --> 00:43:28,052 Weights are coming off. 676 00:43:29,607 --> 00:43:31,347 There you go. 677 00:43:42,703 --> 00:43:46,036 Vehicle is very stable at 5.6 knots. 678 00:43:59,762 --> 00:44:02,003 Deepsea Challenger, surface contact. 679 00:44:02,098 --> 00:44:04,214 Copy you, S.O. We're here. 680 00:44:04,308 --> 00:44:06,799 All right. it's always good to see you back. 681 00:44:06,894 --> 00:44:09,636 We'll get you... we'll come and get you underway and get you onboard. 682 00:44:09,730 --> 00:44:10,970 Copy that. 683 00:44:13,985 --> 00:44:15,475 Okay. Steady! 684 00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:19,987 Goldy, take the line in! 685 00:44:20,074 --> 00:44:22,941 3, 300 feet. 686 00:44:23,035 --> 00:44:25,617 That's like one-tenth of where we're going. 687 00:44:25,705 --> 00:44:29,539 But you know what? Right now, it's the victory this team really needed. 688 00:44:32,837 --> 00:44:35,920 The curse of fear has officially been lifted. 689 00:44:46,517 --> 00:44:48,883 We're going to dive the New Britain trench again, but... 690 00:44:48,978 --> 00:44:52,846 I want to see this town of Rabaul that's only a few miles away. 691 00:44:52,940 --> 00:44:54,805 Or see what's left of it. 692 00:44:57,486 --> 00:45:00,728 In 1994, this town of 17,000 people 693 00:45:00,823 --> 00:45:04,782 was utterly destroyed by a volcanic eruption. 694 00:45:04,869 --> 00:45:09,363 An eruption caused by the same forces that formed the trench itself. 695 00:45:16,380 --> 00:45:18,712 This is where my house used to be, 696 00:45:18,799 --> 00:45:21,415 and a couple of houses here are all... This is all like a neighborhood? 697 00:45:21,510 --> 00:45:25,128 Were there a lot of houses here? Yeah. Quite a lot of houses here. 698 00:45:25,223 --> 00:45:28,306 What it did was just like, kind of like black smoke kind of thing. 699 00:45:28,392 --> 00:45:31,134 And when it did that, it was all black. 700 00:45:31,229 --> 00:45:34,346 We couldn't see. I had to touch you to know that you're there. 701 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,476 Amazing. Yeah. 702 00:45:36,567 --> 00:45:40,230 We were diving just on the south side of New Britain Island, 703 00:45:40,321 --> 00:45:42,858 and we go out about 30 miles offshore, 704 00:45:42,907 --> 00:45:48,368 and we can go down five miles in the trench, in the New Britain Trench. 705 00:45:48,454 --> 00:45:51,294 See, these deep trenches are formed when one plate of the Earth's crust 706 00:45:51,374 --> 00:45:54,741 is dragged underneath another plate, right? Yeah. 707 00:45:54,835 --> 00:45:58,123 They call it subduction and it's because the continents 708 00:45:58,214 --> 00:46:01,957 are all moving around like these big rafts. 709 00:46:02,051 --> 00:46:05,259 The rock of the sea floor is grinding down underneath, right, 710 00:46:05,346 --> 00:46:08,964 under these billions of tons of rock overhead, and it melts. 711 00:46:09,058 --> 00:46:10,923 And the pressure just builds and builds 712 00:46:11,018 --> 00:46:14,886 until all this magma is pushed up ward and boom! 713 00:46:16,941 --> 00:46:19,808 So we came here and we saw, wow, look at what these forces 714 00:46:19,902 --> 00:46:23,110 that are happening way down so many miles down in the Earth, 715 00:46:23,197 --> 00:46:27,566 look what they're doing here and look at the consequence to human beings. 716 00:46:27,660 --> 00:46:30,697 We belong here, so best thing to do is just to play 717 00:46:30,788 --> 00:46:32,779 and get on with life, I suppose. 718 00:46:36,627 --> 00:46:39,460 The same subduction forces that caused the Rabaul eruptions 719 00:46:39,547 --> 00:46:42,880 also unleash undersea earthquakes. 720 00:46:42,967 --> 00:46:45,925 When that fault slips in one of these deep trenches, 721 00:46:46,012 --> 00:46:48,003 it displaces an enormous pulse of water. 722 00:46:50,599 --> 00:46:55,684 It's a release of energy more than 3,000 times the Hiroshima bomb, 723 00:46:55,771 --> 00:46:57,682 creating a tsunami. 724 00:47:16,792 --> 00:47:19,499 We could save a lot of lives if we could predict these events, 725 00:47:19,587 --> 00:47:22,169 but we need to know a lot more about what's happening 726 00:47:22,214 --> 00:47:24,500 down in these deep trenches. 727 00:47:24,550 --> 00:47:26,882 So we need the machines that can go down there. 728 00:47:46,155 --> 00:47:49,192 Surface, Deepsea Challenger. I am on the bottom. 729 00:47:49,283 --> 00:47:54,653 Depth is 12,164 feet. Over. 730 00:48:00,795 --> 00:48:04,162 I'm two-and-a-half miles down, same depth as Titanic, 731 00:48:04,256 --> 00:48:06,838 which I've been to plenty of times, 732 00:48:06,926 --> 00:48:11,260 but always in subs that were built by big government programs. 733 00:48:11,347 --> 00:48:13,804 No privately built sub has ever gone this deep. 734 00:48:15,768 --> 00:48:17,850 And then I've got to remind myself, 735 00:48:17,937 --> 00:48:21,805 this is only a third of the way to where I'm going. 736 00:48:23,442 --> 00:48:26,184 Oh, got us a critter. 737 00:48:26,278 --> 00:48:28,894 We got us a real critter here. 738 00:48:28,989 --> 00:48:33,107 Yesiree, Bob. Time to zoom in on this one. 739 00:48:33,202 --> 00:48:35,113 It looks like an octopus. 740 00:48:35,204 --> 00:48:38,662 Yeah, love those deep octopus. 741 00:48:38,749 --> 00:48:40,910 Wonder what the hell he's thinking. 742 00:48:41,001 --> 00:48:44,664 Uh oh, that's not good. 743 00:48:44,755 --> 00:48:47,371 That's not good. 744 00:48:47,466 --> 00:48:50,583 Loud snapping sounds not good. 745 00:48:50,678 --> 00:48:53,670 Well, Don Walsh always says, if you hear a loud bang 746 00:48:53,764 --> 00:48:57,507 and you've got time to think about it, you're going to be okay. 747 00:48:57,601 --> 00:48:59,432 Something just imploded. 748 00:49:03,065 --> 00:49:06,353 He's chasing me. 749 00:49:06,444 --> 00:49:08,856 You're a mighty warrior, aren't you? 750 00:49:18,581 --> 00:49:20,446 Each one of these chance encounters 751 00:49:20,541 --> 00:49:23,453 is a gift from the ocean, and I'm grateful. 752 00:49:26,046 --> 00:49:29,254 This is my church, down here, alone. 753 00:49:29,341 --> 00:49:32,754 I feel the power of nature's imagination, 754 00:49:32,845 --> 00:49:35,427 which is so much greater than our own. 755 00:49:54,033 --> 00:49:56,069 Here we are with our high tech equipment, 756 00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:58,572 diving in one of the wildest places on the planet. 757 00:50:14,220 --> 00:50:16,131 The rainforests of Papua New Guinea 758 00:50:16,222 --> 00:50:19,259 were the inspiration for the landscapes in Avatar, 759 00:50:19,350 --> 00:50:22,183 so there's no way I'm not going to go ashore and explore. 760 00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:38,907 We've been invited by the Baining people 761 00:50:38,994 --> 00:50:41,280 to witness their sacred fire dance. 762 00:50:45,125 --> 00:50:50,085 The ceremony suggests to me the spirits of this land, shaped by fire... 763 00:50:53,133 --> 00:50:56,500 by the powerful and dangerous forces deep in the Earth. 764 00:50:58,639 --> 00:51:01,722 But the spirit world doesn't cause the Earth to erupt... 765 00:51:04,270 --> 00:51:07,979 or cause the sea to rise up in a tsunami. 766 00:51:08,065 --> 00:51:12,058 The only true path to understanding nature is science. 767 00:51:14,863 --> 00:51:16,774 That's why we're out here. 768 00:51:16,865 --> 00:51:18,480 That's why we're diving. 769 00:51:23,330 --> 00:51:25,662 In clear feet, clear four. 770 00:51:28,586 --> 00:51:32,579 Today's dive is 27,000 feet, over five miles down. 771 00:51:32,673 --> 00:51:37,667 So this is the big test before we can go on to Challenger Deep. 772 00:51:37,761 --> 00:51:40,343 And we're going to start to squeeze all the submersible systems 773 00:51:40,431 --> 00:51:42,672 with this extreme pressure. 774 00:51:42,766 --> 00:51:45,849 We're also going to go to the limits of our communications 775 00:51:45,936 --> 00:51:47,472 and tracking. 776 00:51:47,563 --> 00:51:50,646 Pull in that line! Oh, no. 777 00:51:50,733 --> 00:51:53,315 Guys, getting pretty close to the ship here. 778 00:51:53,402 --> 00:51:55,017 That's not good. 779 00:51:55,112 --> 00:51:56,352 She's getting close. 780 00:51:58,032 --> 00:51:59,192 Hold it there! 781 00:52:01,243 --> 00:52:03,279 GUYS, guys, guys, come on. 782 00:52:05,664 --> 00:52:08,201 Guys, I'm looking right into the starboard props here. 783 00:52:08,292 --> 00:52:10,157 Keep it coming. 784 00:52:10,252 --> 00:52:11,367 Keep it tight. 785 00:52:16,884 --> 00:52:19,000 I'll bet they didn't intend that. 786 00:52:23,349 --> 00:52:25,681 And release, release, release. 787 00:52:36,945 --> 00:52:39,937 When the dive begins, it's exciting. 788 00:52:40,032 --> 00:52:43,775 You know, the divers become little tiny stick figures 789 00:52:43,869 --> 00:52:46,906 and everything just kind of disappears. 790 00:52:46,997 --> 00:52:49,534 And then you just go into darkness. 791 00:52:49,625 --> 00:52:52,037 You can see the plankton going by and... 792 00:52:52,127 --> 00:52:55,119 and you just fall for a long, long time. 793 00:52:57,007 --> 00:52:59,999 Everybody says I can't stretch my arms out in here. 794 00:53:00,094 --> 00:53:03,552 I can stretch to there and to there. 795 00:53:05,349 --> 00:53:08,637 I'll be at 18,000 feet here in a second. 796 00:53:08,727 --> 00:53:12,390 It's the depth Bud Brigman went to in The Abyss. 797 00:53:12,481 --> 00:53:15,939 I'm doing it for real. 798 00:53:16,026 --> 00:53:18,187 It's cool. 799 00:53:18,278 --> 00:53:21,770 Surface, Deepsea Challenger, do you copy? Over. 800 00:53:26,203 --> 00:53:30,412 Surface, Deepsea Challenger, do you copy? Over? 801 00:53:30,499 --> 00:53:33,536 A comms, we're still receiving Deepsea Challenger 802 00:53:33,627 --> 00:53:36,209 but he is not acknowledging our transmission. Over. 803 00:53:36,296 --> 00:53:37,456 Yeah. Copy. 804 00:53:37,548 --> 00:53:40,039 I've got no voice comms. 805 00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:45,132 Okay, that's not too promising. 806 00:53:45,222 --> 00:53:48,635 He's not hearing us or responding to us. 807 00:53:48,726 --> 00:53:50,466 Depth gauge is not changing. 808 00:53:50,561 --> 00:53:52,847 Whoa. 809 00:53:52,938 --> 00:53:54,974 Just lost my thrusters. 810 00:53:55,065 --> 00:53:58,023 Oh, see, look, this is not good. This is not good. 811 00:53:58,110 --> 00:54:02,399 My thrusters are running away and they won't respond. 812 00:54:05,659 --> 00:54:07,024 Then they drive by themselves. 813 00:54:07,119 --> 00:54:09,075 I think we got a problem. 814 00:54:09,163 --> 00:54:13,372 Got a lot of failures here and I'm coming up to my depth. 815 00:54:13,459 --> 00:54:17,668 Without thrusters I can't even stop. This is not good. 816 00:54:17,755 --> 00:54:22,875 As I'm going along, things are starting to fail and glitch one by one. 817 00:54:22,968 --> 00:54:26,131 Everything's getting haywire and I'm getting deeper and deeper. 818 00:54:26,221 --> 00:54:30,134 My clock's stopped, my depth gauge has stopped, everything's stopped. 819 00:54:30,225 --> 00:54:34,434 Speed's 1.9 knots. I still can't stop from that. I'll hit the bottom too fast. 820 00:54:34,521 --> 00:54:37,058 I've got just a couple of minutes to sort this out. 821 00:54:37,149 --> 00:54:39,390 We need to really know, Tim, if there's an emergency. 822 00:54:39,485 --> 00:54:42,727 This is going to be a mess. Yeah, A comms Mermaid, A comms Rib, 823 00:54:42,821 --> 00:54:45,028 we have received telemetry but no vitals. 824 00:54:45,115 --> 00:54:47,572 I'm going to have to drop some shot. I'm going too fast. 825 00:54:47,659 --> 00:54:49,991 I'm going 2 knots. 826 00:54:50,078 --> 00:54:52,911 And dropping shot, here we go. 827 00:54:52,998 --> 00:54:57,992 270 feet. He's getting really close. 828 00:54:58,086 --> 00:54:59,826 Oh, shit. 829 00:54:59,922 --> 00:55:01,378 Stop! 830 00:55:04,927 --> 00:55:10,047 Surface, Deepsea Challenger. Descent is aborted. 831 00:55:10,140 --> 00:55:12,927 Hey, about time. Finally. 832 00:55:16,605 --> 00:55:19,893 I mean, down at 27, 000 feet and one system goes, 833 00:55:19,983 --> 00:55:22,474 and then another system goes, and then another system goes. 834 00:55:22,569 --> 00:55:27,859 And pretty soon you realize you're in this kind of dead metal coffin, 835 00:55:27,950 --> 00:55:30,942 and if the weights don't come off, you're toast. 836 00:55:31,036 --> 00:55:32,617 Okay- 837 00:55:35,707 --> 00:55:36,947 Moment of truth. 838 00:55:56,812 --> 00:56:01,806 The good news is it's now officially the deepest diving submersible in the world. 839 00:56:01,900 --> 00:56:04,232 Bad news is, never saw the bottom, 840 00:56:04,319 --> 00:56:06,856 had about five major systems failures 841 00:56:06,947 --> 00:56:08,653 that prevented me from going on. 842 00:56:08,740 --> 00:56:11,026 Now, what we've got to do is go through the tape, 843 00:56:11,118 --> 00:56:13,985 and see exactly what the nature of the failure was. 844 00:56:16,331 --> 00:56:19,118 We did take water ingress in a couple of battery modules. 845 00:56:19,209 --> 00:56:21,416 So these are going to have to be taken off the sub 846 00:56:21,503 --> 00:56:26,167 and repaired or replaced before the next dive. 847 00:56:26,258 --> 00:56:31,093 This is a prototype and even though we might have 100 percent spares on items, 848 00:56:31,179 --> 00:56:35,172 we're working through those items as we have problems on the dive. 849 00:56:35,267 --> 00:56:39,681 We could come to a point where I could say, "I can't repair this." 850 00:56:39,771 --> 00:56:41,511 When you do this kind of project, 851 00:56:41,607 --> 00:56:43,973 you hit so many hurdles. 852 00:56:44,067 --> 00:56:47,651 Well, I have to say, guys, I picked you guys because you're smart 853 00:56:47,738 --> 00:56:49,774 and you can do this. 854 00:56:49,865 --> 00:56:52,857 And we're going to hit hurdles like this where we think 855 00:56:52,951 --> 00:56:54,782 we're stopped, that we're dead in the water. 856 00:56:54,870 --> 00:56:56,701 And we're going to think our way through it. 857 00:57:20,228 --> 00:57:22,389 Touchdown. 858 00:57:22,481 --> 00:57:25,268 Surface, I am on the bottom. 859 00:57:25,359 --> 00:57:31,355 Depth, 26,970 feet. 860 00:57:31,448 --> 00:57:33,655 Lights are working. 861 00:57:33,742 --> 00:57:35,482 Cameras working. 862 00:57:35,577 --> 00:57:37,408 Thrusters working. 863 00:57:37,496 --> 00:57:38,906 We did it, guys. 864 00:57:38,997 --> 00:57:41,238 A lot of very happy People up here. 865 00:57:44,002 --> 00:57:46,539 So I'm five miles down in the New Britain Trench, 866 00:57:46,630 --> 00:57:49,337 a place that's never been explored before. 867 00:57:49,424 --> 00:57:52,040 Oh, what's that? 868 00:57:52,135 --> 00:57:57,801 And, bang, right off the bat I find what could be a new species of jellyfish. 869 00:58:09,653 --> 00:58:11,393 Copy you loud and clear. 870 00:58:11,488 --> 00:58:13,353 I'm at the trench wall. 871 00:58:13,448 --> 00:58:17,032 I am working a steep rock cliff. Over. 872 00:58:20,664 --> 00:58:24,907 Alps covered with snow. Copy that. Over. 873 00:58:25,002 --> 00:58:26,333 That's cool. 874 00:58:28,839 --> 00:58:31,626 Tiny little anemones 875 00:58:31,717 --> 00:58:34,550 growing out of the rocks. 876 00:58:34,636 --> 00:58:36,797 Look at that, huh? 877 00:58:36,888 --> 00:58:38,970 A beautiful little garden 878 00:58:39,057 --> 00:58:42,174 just hanging out here at 27,000 feet. 879 00:58:49,067 --> 00:58:51,524 So we've discovered this diverse ecosystem 880 00:58:51,611 --> 00:58:54,523 living five miles down in the New Britain Trench. 881 00:58:56,950 --> 00:58:59,817 But the biggest surprise comes from the lander 882 00:58:59,911 --> 00:59:02,323 when we see what was attracted to our bait. 883 00:59:02,414 --> 00:59:04,871 Holy cow. 884 00:59:04,958 --> 00:59:06,289 Amazing. 885 00:59:07,669 --> 00:59:09,876 Wow. This is really amazing. 886 00:59:09,963 --> 00:59:13,376 This whole trip we've only caught a trickle of small tiny amphipods, 887 00:59:13,467 --> 00:59:17,927 maybe an isopod here or there. Now we've many dozens of giant amphipods. 888 00:59:18,013 --> 00:59:20,629 On one dive, the lander brings back four species 889 00:59:20,724 --> 00:59:23,090 which might be new to science. 890 00:59:23,185 --> 00:59:27,975 That really paid off. I mean, that's pretty amazing. I just can't believe it. 891 00:59:30,317 --> 00:59:32,558 On the lander camera, it's a feeding frenzy. 892 00:59:32,652 --> 00:59:36,361 They're like deep sea piranha devouring that chicken. 893 00:59:36,448 --> 00:59:38,905 Oh. Look at that. 894 00:59:38,992 --> 00:59:41,074 Yeah, that is clean to the bone. 895 00:59:41,161 --> 00:59:44,653 This was a full chicken. But look at this. 896 00:59:44,748 --> 00:59:47,660 Look how neatly they've picked every... It's perfectly clean. 897 00:59:47,751 --> 00:59:49,867 morsel of flesh off that skeleton. 898 00:59:49,961 --> 00:59:51,451 Look at that. Absolutely perfect. 899 00:59:51,546 --> 00:59:52,581 I mean, that's nice work. 900 00:59:55,926 --> 00:59:58,633 The five mile dive was our last test. 901 00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,962 We're as ready as we're going to be. 902 01:00:02,057 --> 01:00:06,050 It's time to go to the deep end of the pool. 903 01:00:06,144 --> 01:00:09,887 The Challenger Deep is in the heart of the Mariana Trench. 904 01:00:09,981 --> 01:00:12,563 It's 1,300 miles farther north. 905 01:00:12,651 --> 01:00:15,814 It's a pit in the trench 40 miles long and two miles wide 906 01:00:15,904 --> 01:00:19,863 that's so deep, you could put Mount Everest on the bottom, 907 01:00:19,950 --> 01:00:22,692 with four Empire State buildings stacked on top 908 01:00:22,786 --> 01:00:24,822 and not even break the surface. 909 01:00:35,006 --> 01:00:36,871 Okay, so we're coming up on the dive site, 910 01:00:36,967 --> 01:00:38,753 and we've got a problem. 911 01:00:38,844 --> 01:00:40,960 We were supposed to be out here a month ago 912 01:00:41,054 --> 01:00:43,340 and now the trade winds are blowing every day 913 01:00:43,431 --> 01:00:47,515 and the sea state has gotten pretty ugly. 914 01:00:47,602 --> 01:00:50,309 I've been dreaming about this place since I was a little kid. 915 01:00:50,397 --> 01:00:55,016 You know it's interesting. It just looks like any other piece of ocean anywhere. 916 01:00:55,110 --> 01:00:58,694 But it's knowing that seven miles straight down below our feet 917 01:00:58,780 --> 01:01:02,773 is the deepest place in the world's oceans. 918 01:01:02,868 --> 01:01:05,359 But conditions are pretty marginal. 919 01:01:05,453 --> 01:01:06,989 Probably about the absolute limit 920 01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:08,741 that we can launch in right here. 921 01:01:08,832 --> 01:01:11,073 This is going to test everybody to the limit. 922 01:01:11,168 --> 01:01:14,160 Okay, let's stabilize her. 923 01:01:14,254 --> 01:01:16,290 So we're doing an unmanned launch 924 01:01:16,381 --> 01:01:19,123 to see if we can actually get the sub back on the ship. 925 01:01:19,217 --> 01:01:23,051 Okay, just get lines nice and tight. Steady. 926 01:01:23,138 --> 01:01:25,379 If it gets away on us... 927 01:01:25,473 --> 01:01:27,429 it's a 12-ton wrecking ball. 928 01:01:27,517 --> 01:01:30,850 Let her stabilize. Let her stabilize. 929 01:01:30,937 --> 01:01:33,929 Goldy! Line out! 930 01:01:34,024 --> 01:01:37,107 Steady now. Get her steady. 931 01:01:37,194 --> 01:01:39,230 Take in all the slack. All the slack. 932 01:01:39,321 --> 01:01:42,108 Come on, Harman, get it in. 933 01:01:42,199 --> 01:01:46,317 Tighten her, Gavin. Gavin, tight. 934 01:01:46,411 --> 01:01:50,245 All stop. Take her back to the sea, Steve, back in the sea. 935 01:01:50,332 --> 01:01:52,414 Goldy, let your line out! 936 01:01:52,500 --> 01:01:54,240 The only way to stop it swinging 937 01:01:54,336 --> 01:01:55,701 is to drop it back in the water. 938 01:01:55,795 --> 01:01:57,456 Keep it coming! 939 01:01:57,547 --> 01:01:59,458 Goldy, let it out. Let it out, please. 940 01:01:59,549 --> 01:02:02,256 Everyone, let your lines out. All lines out. 941 01:02:02,344 --> 01:02:04,835 Get it out! 942 01:02:04,930 --> 01:02:06,340 Okay, steady! 943 01:02:06,431 --> 01:02:07,637 Hold it there. 944 01:02:10,644 --> 01:02:12,259 We're over the limit. 945 01:02:12,354 --> 01:02:14,390 If the sea state doesn't come down, 946 01:02:14,481 --> 01:02:16,722 there's no way I can dive. 947 01:02:19,819 --> 01:02:22,731 It's just this weather window. 948 01:02:22,822 --> 01:02:26,280 It's like a gift from the sea right there. 949 01:02:26,368 --> 01:02:32,785 Gives us a shot. It's already well down, mid afternoon down, holding. 950 01:02:32,874 --> 01:02:37,413 Past midnight and then zero six the following morning. 951 01:02:37,504 --> 01:02:40,871 That's when it starts to rocket back up. So that's our hard out. 952 01:02:46,304 --> 01:02:48,215 So now it's finally the big dive 953 01:02:48,306 --> 01:02:50,137 and we're going to launch at night 954 01:02:50,225 --> 01:02:53,717 in a heavy sea which we never trained for. 955 01:02:53,812 --> 01:02:58,852 Knowing that somebody's life is at stake is very, very stressful. 956 01:02:58,942 --> 01:03:00,933 And then you compound that 957 01:03:01,027 --> 01:03:04,235 with an incredibly aggressive schedule. 958 01:03:04,322 --> 01:03:06,438 There are calculated risks. 959 01:03:06,533 --> 01:03:08,239 Complacency is a killer. 960 01:03:08,326 --> 01:03:10,408 The ocean can turn on you in a heartbeat. 961 01:03:10,495 --> 01:03:14,329 So it's very important that everybody is on their main game. 962 01:03:14,416 --> 01:03:17,908 Tie the taglines. Tighten up. Tighten up. 963 01:03:23,133 --> 01:03:25,124 Gavin, tighten up. 964 01:03:25,218 --> 01:03:28,176 Okay, just get lines nice and tight. Steady. 965 01:03:28,263 --> 01:03:30,424 All lines stop. All stop. 966 01:03:30,515 --> 01:03:36,932 If we don't dive now, then we've wasted our time. 967 01:03:37,022 --> 01:03:40,014 Okay, steady there. Steady there. 968 01:03:40,108 --> 01:03:41,894 All stop, all stop. 969 01:03:41,985 --> 01:03:45,193 Because we're out of time. 970 01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:47,396 This ship's got to go back. 971 01:03:49,826 --> 01:03:52,317 Steady. 972 01:03:52,412 --> 01:03:54,619 We've got to dive, even if it means 973 01:03:54,706 --> 01:03:57,823 we've got to dive at night which we'd said we wouldn't do, 974 01:03:57,917 --> 01:03:59,407 even if it means we've got to dive 975 01:03:59,502 --> 01:04:01,834 in a two-and-a-half meter sea, 976 01:04:01,921 --> 01:04:06,005 which we said was beyond our capability. 977 01:04:06,092 --> 01:04:11,803 Now is where we really have to pit ourselves against the elements. 978 01:04:17,187 --> 01:04:20,395 And verticals down. 979 01:04:27,655 --> 01:04:31,193 Well, we're supposed to be trying to dive by 0400, which is in 20 minutes. 980 01:04:31,284 --> 01:04:32,774 I predict we'll be about... 981 01:04:32,869 --> 01:04:34,484 I'll be descending by about 4:30. 982 01:04:34,579 --> 01:04:36,945 A little bit late, but not much. 983 01:04:39,334 --> 01:04:40,995 We're on target right now. 984 01:04:41,086 --> 01:04:44,328 Should be the deepest place on the planet. 985 01:04:44,422 --> 01:04:46,754 There's of course an element of fear in it, 986 01:04:46,841 --> 01:04:51,551 because it's a risk, and... 987 01:04:51,596 --> 01:04:56,215 but if you don't go out and do something in life, nothing happens. 988 01:04:58,395 --> 01:05:00,602 I'm only minutes away from diving the Challenger Deep 989 01:05:00,688 --> 01:05:02,553 and the guy who inspired that dream 990 01:05:02,649 --> 01:05:05,061 is right here on board with us. 991 01:05:05,151 --> 01:05:07,893 Don Walsh is back at the site of his own dive 992 01:05:07,987 --> 01:05:09,978 52 years later. 993 01:05:14,786 --> 01:05:16,742 Thanks, babe. 994 01:05:16,830 --> 01:05:18,411 Have fun. It will be fun. 995 01:05:18,498 --> 01:05:21,240 I love you. Love you, too, babe. 996 01:05:23,294 --> 01:05:26,661 All right, Jim. All right, buddy. See you in the sunshine. 997 01:05:26,756 --> 01:05:30,294 Okay. See you when you come out. All the best. All right. Thanks a lot. 998 01:05:30,385 --> 01:05:34,003 Have a good one. God speed below. All right. Thanks a lot. 999 01:05:49,195 --> 01:05:51,106 And pan tilt. 1000 01:05:51,197 --> 01:05:52,778 Yup. Got it. 1001 01:05:55,618 --> 01:05:57,654 And hold. Final checks. 1002 01:05:57,745 --> 01:05:59,030 Leads clear. 1003 01:06:00,748 --> 01:06:02,409 Okay, lower away. 1004 01:06:19,601 --> 01:06:20,932 Okay, standby. 1005 01:06:28,985 --> 01:06:32,318 Okay, Steve, when you're ready, mate. If you just take up. 1006 01:06:32,405 --> 01:06:34,441 Coming UP- Coming UP- 1007 01:06:39,370 --> 01:06:41,076 Okay, Donny. 1008 01:06:41,164 --> 01:06:42,370 Nice and tight, Donny. 1009 01:06:44,792 --> 01:06:48,330 That's a good angle, Donny. That's great. Good. Well done, guys. 1010 01:06:48,421 --> 01:06:50,503 Take her off. That's good. 1011 01:06:50,590 --> 01:06:55,505 Okay, standby for that transition, guys. Standby for transition. 1012 01:06:55,595 --> 01:06:58,758 You need to be taking up, Gavin. 1013 01:06:58,848 --> 01:07:01,760 Keep going, guys. 1014 01:07:03,728 --> 01:07:05,889 Goldy, a bit more out, please. 1015 01:07:05,980 --> 01:07:07,891 Careful, Donny. Out more, Donny. 1016 01:07:07,982 --> 01:07:09,347 Here we go. 1017 01:07:11,569 --> 01:07:14,356 Deepsea Challenger, you are 100 meters 1018 01:07:14,447 --> 01:07:17,234 due north of your intended drop point. Over. 1019 01:07:17,325 --> 01:07:20,362 Yeah, copy that, Tim. Thanks. 1020 01:07:20,453 --> 01:07:21,818 Hatch is not leaking. 1021 01:07:21,913 --> 01:07:24,074 Hatch looks good so far. 1022 01:07:24,165 --> 01:07:26,702 Yeah, Jim, we're going to, if you're comfortable, 1023 01:07:26,793 --> 01:07:29,330 we'll pump both bags together once you're ready... 1024 01:07:33,967 --> 01:07:36,629 Say again, please. 1025 01:07:36,719 --> 01:07:41,213 Deepsea Challenger, five minutes from drop zone. 1026 01:07:41,307 --> 01:07:43,263 Copy, five minutes from drop zone. 1027 01:07:43,351 --> 01:07:45,558 Deepsea Challenger, surface check. 1028 01:07:45,645 --> 01:07:51,561 Yeah, copy that. Vision 1 is 20-19-19. 1029 01:07:51,609 --> 01:07:56,023 Carbon dioxide is 0.5 percent. 1030 01:07:56,114 --> 01:07:57,945 Looking good, guys. 1031 01:07:59,409 --> 01:08:02,367 Oh, man. 1032 01:08:02,453 --> 01:08:06,071 We got a hatch deploy on the soft ballast. 1033 01:08:06,165 --> 01:08:08,872 The soft ballast bag has deployed. The hatch popped. 1034 01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:11,827 Yeah roger, I've got that. I can see that. 1035 01:08:11,921 --> 01:08:14,207 The soft ballast is a key safety system. 1036 01:08:14,299 --> 01:08:17,712 If it blows, we're supposed to pull the sub out and fix it. 1037 01:08:17,802 --> 01:08:21,169 But if we do that, we miss our dive window. 1038 01:08:24,892 --> 01:08:27,383 All right, tell the divers to cut it away. 1039 01:08:27,478 --> 01:08:29,764 We're going without it. Over. 1040 01:08:29,856 --> 01:08:31,596 Yeah, roger. Standby. 1041 01:08:34,235 --> 01:08:36,647 Take everything. The hatch, too. Over. 1042 01:08:36,738 --> 01:08:40,981 Deepsea Challenger, position update is two minutes to drop point. 1043 01:08:44,162 --> 01:08:47,825 All right, Deepsea Challenger, ready when you are. 1044 01:08:47,915 --> 01:08:49,780 Yeah, ready for a descent. 1045 01:08:49,876 --> 01:08:52,413 Okay, just confirmed the divers are in position 1046 01:08:52,503 --> 01:08:53,868 and then we're going to launch. 1047 01:08:53,963 --> 01:08:55,624 Okay, ready to initiate descent. 1048 01:08:55,715 --> 01:08:57,831 And release, release, release. 1049 01:09:21,574 --> 01:09:23,110 Had a bit of a rocky start. 1050 01:09:25,286 --> 01:09:27,698 4.6 knots. We're going like a bat out of hell here. 1051 01:09:27,789 --> 01:09:29,279 Just the way we like it. 1052 01:09:34,087 --> 01:09:36,999 Surface, surface, Deepsea Challenger. 1053 01:09:37,090 --> 01:09:43,086 Depth two tick zero, zero feet. 1054 01:09:43,179 --> 01:09:46,922 Speed 4.2 knots. Over. 1055 01:09:47,016 --> 01:09:50,133 Deepsea Challenger, copy. Understood. 1056 01:09:52,480 --> 01:09:54,516 Depth 11,580 feet. 1057 01:09:54,607 --> 01:09:56,393 Speed 3.2 knots. 1058 01:09:58,903 --> 01:10:02,145 I used to think Titanic was the deepest place I could imagine. 1059 01:10:02,240 --> 01:10:05,949 Now I'm sailing past that depth like it's the foot of my drive way. 1060 01:10:10,540 --> 01:10:13,077 16, 000 feet. 1061 01:10:13,167 --> 01:10:15,032 That's the depth of Bismarck, 1062 01:10:15,128 --> 01:10:17,460 the deepest I'd been before this expedition. 1063 01:10:20,174 --> 01:10:23,462 But it's less than halfway to where I'm going. 1064 01:10:23,553 --> 01:10:25,885 Surface, Deepsea Challenger. 1065 01:10:25,972 --> 01:10:30,762 Depth, 18,000. 1066 01:10:30,852 --> 01:10:35,721 External temperature, 34. 4 degrees. 1067 01:10:37,900 --> 01:10:39,686 It's getting cold. 1068 01:10:47,577 --> 01:10:51,240 You're doing all these things as you're going down, it's all on the checklist. 1069 01:10:51,330 --> 01:10:53,867 You do this at this depth and you do that at another depth, 1070 01:10:53,958 --> 01:10:56,574 and you know, you're setting up the cameras 1071 01:10:56,669 --> 01:10:59,627 and booting up the sonar, checking battery status, 1072 01:10:59,714 --> 01:11:03,798 testing the thrusters, comms, navigation. 1073 01:11:03,885 --> 01:11:07,753 Everything that needs to be ready before you land. 1074 01:11:07,847 --> 01:11:10,930 And it's all by the numbers. 1075 01:11:11,017 --> 01:11:14,805 And then for the first time, on any dive, I'm through my checklist. 1076 01:11:17,148 --> 01:11:19,434 27,000 feet. 1077 01:11:19,525 --> 01:11:23,143 That's deeper than any other sub in the world can reach. 1078 01:11:23,237 --> 01:11:25,273 Beyond any hope of rescue. 1079 01:11:27,492 --> 01:11:31,485 And there's still 9,000 feet to go. 1080 01:11:31,579 --> 01:11:33,535 There's nothing to do but sit and think 1081 01:11:33,623 --> 01:11:36,080 about the pressure building up on the hull. 1082 01:11:40,338 --> 01:11:43,000 It just gets really quiet. 1083 01:11:43,090 --> 01:11:47,925 It's peaceful. It's lonely. 1084 01:11:48,012 --> 01:11:51,880 And you feel yourself just getting farther and farther and farther 1085 01:11:51,974 --> 01:11:54,431 from the world that you came from. 1086 01:12:07,782 --> 01:12:12,776 Vertical rate is 1.3 knots. 1087 01:12:12,870 --> 01:12:17,239 Time to shed some shot. 1088 01:12:17,333 --> 01:12:19,415 Get some speed off here. 1089 01:12:26,342 --> 01:12:28,003 35,200 feet. 1090 01:12:28,094 --> 01:12:31,552 488 feet to go. 1091 01:12:31,639 --> 01:12:33,800 Get everything on. 1092 01:12:33,891 --> 01:12:35,597 On. Good. 1093 01:12:35,685 --> 01:12:39,052 And number three. That's all lights facing down. 1094 01:12:39,146 --> 01:12:42,388 Let's get this spotlight aimed down. 1095 01:12:44,527 --> 01:12:49,772 Altitude 110 feet. 1096 01:12:49,866 --> 01:12:52,653 100 feet. 1097 01:12:52,743 --> 01:12:54,734 78. 1098 01:12:54,829 --> 01:12:59,869 Should be seeing something pretty soon. 1099 01:12:59,959 --> 01:13:03,417 All the way down. 1100 01:13:03,504 --> 01:13:05,870 There we go. 1101 01:13:05,965 --> 01:13:07,501 We have bottom. 1102 01:13:09,385 --> 01:13:12,377 Okay. Coming down. 1103 01:13:13,806 --> 01:13:16,047 Easy, easy, easy. 1104 01:13:23,482 --> 01:13:25,097 More braking. 1105 01:13:38,164 --> 01:13:40,120 Touchdown. 1106 01:14:01,437 --> 01:14:04,224 Surface, this is Deepsea Challenger. 1107 01:14:04,315 --> 01:14:06,180 I am on the bottom. 1108 01:14:06,275 --> 01:14:12,942 Depth is 35,756 feet. 1109 01:14:12,990 --> 01:14:16,153 And life support's good. 1110 01:14:16,243 --> 01:14:18,609 Everything looks good. 1111 01:14:18,704 --> 01:14:20,865 Oh, my God. 1112 01:14:24,001 --> 01:14:26,993 Whatever I thought I was going to say at that moment... 1113 01:14:27,088 --> 01:14:28,624 wasn't going to be that. 1114 01:14:28,714 --> 01:14:30,875 This is how the NASA team must have felt 1115 01:14:30,967 --> 01:14:32,958 when the Eagle landed. This is just great. 1116 01:14:33,052 --> 01:14:35,714 Deepsea Challenger. Deepsea Challenger. 1117 01:14:35,805 --> 01:14:38,968 God speed to you, baby. I love you. 1118 01:14:39,058 --> 01:14:45,099 Love you too, baby. All the way from the heart of the ocean. 1119 01:14:45,189 --> 01:14:46,429 Oh! 1120 01:14:52,446 --> 01:14:57,065 Surface be advised, I'm starting my transect to the north. Over. 1121 01:15:09,380 --> 01:15:13,794 Going deeper into the ocean is going deeper into the subconscious. 1122 01:15:13,884 --> 01:15:20,175 So we have this fantasy that the deeper we are, the bigger the monsters. 1123 01:15:20,266 --> 01:15:22,507 Man. 1124 01:15:22,601 --> 01:15:26,844 It is just flat and featureless. 1125 01:15:26,939 --> 01:15:29,146 Don't even see any animal tracks. 1126 01:15:32,194 --> 01:15:34,025 In reality, the deeper we go, 1127 01:15:34,113 --> 01:15:36,320 the smaller the life forms. 1128 01:15:36,407 --> 01:15:40,150 No critters, no signs of critters. No tracks on the ground. 1129 01:15:42,913 --> 01:15:46,576 Unbelievable. Like the moon. 1130 01:15:46,667 --> 01:15:50,455 I know there are new species of bacteria in that sediment, 1131 01:15:50,546 --> 01:15:53,333 but I have this powerful feeling that I've dived deeper 1132 01:15:53,424 --> 01:15:55,790 than the limits of life itself. 1133 01:15:55,885 --> 01:16:01,221 All right, let's get ourselves a sediment sample. 1134 01:16:03,893 --> 01:16:07,351 Be advised, I'm taking my contingency sample. Over. 1135 01:16:13,027 --> 01:16:16,360 I see a lot of hydraulic oil coming out. 1136 01:16:16,447 --> 01:16:19,314 Looks like we got ourselves a big leak. 1137 01:16:19,408 --> 01:16:21,694 All right. 1138 01:16:21,786 --> 01:16:25,028 I better get my sample while I can. 1139 01:16:25,122 --> 01:16:27,829 I think we might have a sample there. 1140 01:16:34,048 --> 01:16:37,586 Okay, now... 1141 01:16:37,676 --> 01:16:40,167 Let's get a look at this watch. 1142 01:16:40,262 --> 01:16:43,504 Is it still ticking? 1143 01:16:43,599 --> 01:16:46,341 Oh yeah. 16,000 pounds per square inch? 1144 01:16:46,435 --> 01:16:47,925 No problem. 1145 01:16:49,480 --> 01:16:51,141 Uh oh. This is not good. 1146 01:16:53,609 --> 01:16:57,022 This thing is just dying. 1147 01:16:57,113 --> 01:17:00,605 Yeah. The hydraulics are completely dead. 1148 01:17:04,912 --> 01:17:07,028 Most of our lives, we huddle together 1149 01:17:07,123 --> 01:17:10,411 in the warmth of human company. 1150 01:17:10,501 --> 01:17:14,244 Down here, alone, there's a purity. 1151 01:17:16,423 --> 01:17:19,335 We sense the vastness of all that we don't know. 1152 01:17:21,804 --> 01:17:25,092 Oh, I think my horizon just came up. 1153 01:17:25,182 --> 01:17:28,015 I believe we have found a slope. 1154 01:17:28,102 --> 01:17:31,310 Deepsea Challenger, surface, comms check. 1155 01:17:31,397 --> 01:17:34,230 Surface, Deepsea Challenger. 1156 01:17:34,316 --> 01:17:38,229 I am at the north slope. Over. 1157 01:17:41,365 --> 01:17:43,230 That's cool. Copy that. 1158 01:17:43,325 --> 01:17:45,316 Let loose a little avalanche there. 1159 01:17:56,422 --> 01:17:58,708 Somebody has to go. 1160 01:17:58,799 --> 01:18:01,165 A robot can't tell you how it feels. 1161 01:18:05,097 --> 01:18:08,555 I did not come all this way 1162 01:18:08,642 --> 01:18:11,179 to not see it with my own eyes. 1163 01:18:14,815 --> 01:18:17,352 Oh yeah. 1164 01:18:17,443 --> 01:18:20,310 It's important to physically be here, 1165 01:18:20,404 --> 01:18:23,066 to bear witness 1166 01:18:23,157 --> 01:18:25,398 to the things that have never been seen. 1167 01:18:35,044 --> 01:18:38,878 To that little kid dreaming of going to the bottom of the ocean, 1168 01:18:38,964 --> 01:18:41,000 all things seemed possible. 1169 01:18:42,718 --> 01:18:44,959 I wonder what other kids will do. 1170 01:18:45,054 --> 01:18:47,966 Where they'll go, what they'll see. 1171 01:18:48,057 --> 01:18:50,139 What new worlds await them. 1172 01:18:50,226 --> 01:18:53,184 Oh, yeah. 1173 01:18:53,270 --> 01:18:55,636 I hope there's some kid out there right now 1174 01:18:55,731 --> 01:19:02,899 who's already dreaming of exploring worlds we can't even imagine. 1175 01:19:02,988 --> 01:19:05,274 Something feels wrong with my thrusters. 1176 01:19:08,077 --> 01:19:10,489 Oh, see, look, I got three dead horizontals. 1177 01:19:12,248 --> 01:19:14,739 All I can do is turn. Turn in a circle. 1178 01:19:16,585 --> 01:19:19,793 Yeah, it just spins me around. 1179 01:19:22,132 --> 01:19:24,464 It's time to go back to my own world. 1180 01:19:28,055 --> 01:19:32,970 Surface, Deepsea Challenger, preparing to ascend. Over. 1181 01:19:33,060 --> 01:19:35,722 I hate this feeling, when you've got to leave 1182 01:19:35,813 --> 01:19:38,600 and you know there's still so much to see out there. 1183 01:19:38,691 --> 01:19:40,181 Weights are coming off. 1184 01:19:42,736 --> 01:19:44,727 Boosh. There they go. 1185 01:19:46,240 --> 01:19:48,231 Surface, Deepsea Challenger. 1186 01:19:48,325 --> 01:19:51,442 Weights are off. On ascent. Over. 1187 01:20:04,633 --> 01:20:09,002 Well, I'm just going to have to come back. 1188 01:20:09,096 --> 01:20:11,052 Exploration is never done. 1189 01:20:13,600 --> 01:20:16,342 You know, when you look around and you see the faces 1190 01:20:16,437 --> 01:20:18,803 of the guys who are just so proud 1191 01:20:18,897 --> 01:20:22,389 they've been part of this one man's dream and this adventure, 1192 01:20:22,484 --> 01:20:24,190 it's pretty unique. 1193 01:20:24,278 --> 01:20:25,814 You know, he's driven us hard, 1194 01:20:25,904 --> 01:20:28,816 but we care about him immensely. 1195 01:20:33,746 --> 01:20:37,034 14, standby for recovery on the starboard side. 1196 01:21:07,488 --> 01:21:09,854 Deepsea Challenger, Deepsea Challenger, S. O. 1197 01:21:12,993 --> 01:21:15,325 S. O. Deepsea Challenger. Go ahead. 1198 01:21:15,412 --> 01:21:17,198 Good to have you back, Jim. 1199 01:21:17,289 --> 01:21:19,371 Copy that. Good to be back. 1200 01:21:19,458 --> 01:21:22,495 Deepsea Challenger, we're coming to get you. 1201 01:21:22,586 --> 01:21:26,249 You guys are my heroes in real life. 1202 01:21:26,340 --> 01:21:29,707 Tighten the taglines. Tighten the taglines. 1203 01:21:35,140 --> 01:21:37,631 Stop there. Stop there. 1204 01:21:37,726 --> 01:21:40,809 This sub is not just a machine. 1205 01:21:40,896 --> 01:21:44,889 It's the hopes and dreams and will 1206 01:21:44,942 --> 01:21:47,649 of all the members of the team made manifest. 1207 01:21:49,279 --> 01:21:52,146 They are the soul of the machine 1208 01:21:52,241 --> 01:21:54,482 and it is them. 1209 01:22:11,009 --> 01:22:13,250 Only the people that are on this expedition 1210 01:22:13,345 --> 01:22:16,587 will ever understand what it took to accomplish the goal 1211 01:22:16,682 --> 01:22:19,389 and that will bond us together for the rest of our lives. 1212 01:22:32,698 --> 01:22:35,314 We did it, man. We did it. 1213 01:22:39,037 --> 01:22:40,197 We did it. 1214 01:22:40,289 --> 01:22:41,904 We all did it. 1215 01:22:41,999 --> 01:22:43,785 I was just the unlucky son of a bitch 1216 01:22:43,876 --> 01:22:46,288 that had to get crammed in here to go take the ride. 1217 01:22:54,344 --> 01:22:55,459 Hey, baby. Hi. 1218 01:22:58,599 --> 01:22:59,759 Steady, man. 1219 01:22:59,808 --> 01:23:01,048 That's a good kiss. 1220 01:23:02,978 --> 01:23:05,344 Did you see my shot? 1221 01:23:05,439 --> 01:23:07,225 Did you find my shot piles down there? 1222 01:23:13,822 --> 01:23:16,939 I think every explorer has the same thing inside. 1223 01:23:19,536 --> 01:23:21,743 They know that the risk is worth it 1224 01:23:21,830 --> 01:23:26,164 because they're widening the pool of knowledge. 1225 01:23:26,251 --> 01:23:30,039 It's important for us as a species to not lose that drive, 1226 01:23:30,130 --> 01:23:33,213 whether it's in the oceans, whether it's out in space, 1227 01:23:33,300 --> 01:23:37,760 going to Mars, going to the outer planets, to the icy moons. 1228 01:23:37,846 --> 01:23:41,509 Whatever it is, we need to keep that part of us alive.