Join the Royal Geographical Society - Singapore and Chris Lemons, a specialist in deep sea saturation diving, between 7.30pm and 9pm SGT (GMT+8) on 10th June 2021 to learn more about the world of offshore saturation diving in our latest Zoom webinar: "Chris Lemons - Last Breath: Reasoning with Life and Death at the Bottom of the North Sea"!

Chris was involved in a serious accident during his work at the bottom of the North Sea in September 2012, when he became stranded on the seabed with only five minutes of breathing gas contained in the emergency cylinders on his back. Given the slim chance of survival, his rescuers were astonished to find him still alive when they finally reached him after more than 40 minutes. Chris' brush with death highlights the immense risks involved in saturation diving in the oil and gas industry, as well as the lessons to be learnt from this accident to improve the safety aspect of this line of work.

About Chris Lemons:
Chris Lemons was born in Edinburgh, raised in Cambridge, and now lives in the Scottish Highlands with his wife and daughter. He has been a commercial diver for over 14 years, and currently specialises in deep sea saturation diving, operating almost exclusively in the oil and gas industry.

In September 2012, a freak failure of the dynamic positioning system of the vessel Chris was working under completely severed the umbilical which supplied him with breathing gas, light and heat. He was left on the seabed in complete darkness at 300 feet below the surface, with only five minutes of breathing gas he carried in the emergency tanks on his back and no way to protect himself from the freezing temperatures. It took his heroic rescuers over 40 minutes to come back and fetch him, and his miraculous survival story has baffled experts ever since. His extraordinary story was subsequently immortalised in the hit Netflix/BBC documentary "Last Breath", whilst Chris continues to dive to this day.