I have always been a magician on Google. My Google-fu knows no bounds; however, I am at a loss. I watched a documentary on SCUBA diving somewhere around 2005. It was probably an HBO documentary.
Essentially, as a remember it, it began with a team documenting a regular air depth record. It seemed like it was in New Zealand or Australia (or maybe one of the two divers who were to set the record were from there, I don't know).
It was to be a week-long event. One of the divers had a cold and did not do any of the acclimating dives. The other diver kept going deeper each time in the lead-up to the main dive; however, when it came, I suppose the other wanted his name in the record books, too. He dove with his partner, but ended up suffering from (what I guess would be) nitrogen narcosis. He suffered so severely that I remember the other diver saying he swam the wrong way (down) and there was "nothing he could do."
The other ended up dying, so what started out as a documentary to record the depth record ended up being this tragic documentary on his death. I remember as an aside other divers recovered his body a year later diving on Trimix.
So, does anyone have any idea as to the name of this movie/documentary? I've spent over an hour on Google, etc., trying to find it, and I'm hoping I can pick someone's brain as to the title.
Thanks,
B
Essentially, as a remember it, it began with a team documenting a regular air depth record. It seemed like it was in New Zealand or Australia (or maybe one of the two divers who were to set the record were from there, I don't know).
It was to be a week-long event. One of the divers had a cold and did not do any of the acclimating dives. The other diver kept going deeper each time in the lead-up to the main dive; however, when it came, I suppose the other wanted his name in the record books, too. He dove with his partner, but ended up suffering from (what I guess would be) nitrogen narcosis. He suffered so severely that I remember the other diver saying he swam the wrong way (down) and there was "nothing he could do."
The other ended up dying, so what started out as a documentary to record the depth record ended up being this tragic documentary on his death. I remember as an aside other divers recovered his body a year later diving on Trimix.
So, does anyone have any idea as to the name of this movie/documentary? I've spent over an hour on Google, etc., trying to find it, and I'm hoping I can pick someone's brain as to the title.
Thanks,
B
