Diving into the Unknown Trailer
Diving into the unknown trailer is released. The movie will cover the body recovery of the two divers who died in Feb 2014. I think there is a thread about the incident on CDF, but i posted a link to a news article and the synopsis from a film website. If someone finds the original thread on the incident, definitely post it for everyone.
"Cave diving is a dangerous hobby. For a group of Finnish cave divers, their worst nightmare becomes real during an accident where two divers drown deep inside a cave in Norway. In this feature length documentary the viewers are taken into a secret operation where the surviving divers try to retrieve the bodies of their friends, after the official retrieval operation has been called off. Can they overcome the burden of their own fears during this life-threatening mission?
“Diving into the Unknown” is more than just a rare insight into a secret operation; It is also an in depth story of the groups’ unconditional friendship. This is a unique group of specialists who have to rely on each other every split second of the dive. They have been exploring caves, where no one else has entered ever before, for years but the biggest challenge is ahead of them. Each time the team members enter a cave system anywhere survival is the theme they face. However, the physical burden is nothing compared the psychological one; how would it feel to face your friends’ dead body while you are supposed to complete an extremely dangerous mission in an extremely hostile environment? The team has promised the victims families to bring their loved ones back home even if it means endangering the teams’ own lives.
With multiple cameras, both on the surface and under water, the film follows this breath-taking mission. It shows the twists and turns the team members experience, which all can jeopardize the whole operation at any time."...from
http://www.filmstransit.com/index.ph...=detail&id=324
Article
http://www.thelocal.no/20140207/two-...ys-plura-caves
https://vimeo.com/147601833
https://vimeo.com/139558439
Diving into the Unknown Trailer
I know very little about rebreathers - only what I have picked up listening to my husband and his buddies - but it seems that the survivors really pushed their scrubbers hard. One of the surviving divers was in the water for about nine hours. I understand that some scrubbers (e.g., the scrubber in the Meg's "tall" canister) have a pretty long run life - I wonder If they had an opportunity to switch out the scrubbers and cans on their units (loosely speaking, one pound of sorb equals about an hour of run time, right?) for something with more longevity. Bearing in mind, too, these folks were also diving in pretty cold water, which could not have helped matters. I don't know what these guys were diving - a couple of JJs and a couple of Megs, I think? Even with a huge scrubber, it seems they were really pushing their equipment to the limit, and maybe even beyond. Taking also into account the exercise required to exit the cave, and the high CO2 build-up these guys must have experienced as they sought to overcome very stressful situations in the cave itself...the survivors were very lucky indeed.
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