To Boldly Go

[Ace-T]

on now Beeb 2


Fascinating telly about diving and space walks.

[Skii]

Fantastic programme, really enjoyed this.

[g4ry13]

That was very interesting, missed the first 15-20 mins so i'll have to catch up with it. Some of those guys have balls of steel, especially those crazy Mariana trench guys.

[anonymous-user]

Brilliant stuff.

[Turn7]

Yep, enjoyed that. Series linked .

[croyde]

Stumbled across this, very interesting and beautifully shot. One of those worth the licence fee moments.

The free diving stuff has always fascinated me but the deep sea rig divers scary stuff.

There was a boat/barge/raft in Asia somewhere that had to be abandoned due to a hurricane/typhoon but there were divers in a decompression chamber bolted to the deck and they could not get them out as it would have meant an instant and very painful death. They were left to chance it out with the storm.

They returned to the wreckage but the chamber was on the sea floor with the occupants dead inside although one was found outside the chamber. Awful.

[honest_delboy]

Scary stuff indeed. I really hope those commercial divers get paid a huge salary to offset the risks and commitment to the job. Lets be honest its not your normal 9-5.

free diving to 100m !! not sure if i'd even get to 5m.

Any PH commerical divers out there?

[g4ry13]

When they mentioned the squeeze happening to deep sea divers all I could recall was the mythbusters episode on it. Not the most pleasant way to go I imagine.

[croyde]

g4ry13 said:

When they mentioned the squeeze happening to deep sea divers all I could recall was the mythbusters episode on it. Not the most pleasant way to go I imagine.

Jeez! bit much that they are so excitable about it.

[honest_delboy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathyscaphe_Trieste

Doesn't mention anything about the pane of glass cracking whilst they were on the seabad, a brown trouser moment to say the least.

[g4ry13]

honest_delboy said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathyscaphe_Trieste

Doesn't mention anything about the pane of glass cracking whilst they were on the seabad, a brown trouser moment to say the least.

"The descent to the ocean floor took 4 hours and 48 minutes at a descent rate of 0.9 metres per second (3.0 ft/s).[3][4] After passing 9,000 meters one of the outer Plexiglas window panes cracked, shaking the entire vessel."

[honest_delboy]

Thanks, not sure how i missed that..

In the program i'm sure he said the glass shattered whilst they were on the seabed. For it to shatter on their descent and for them to still descend another ~2000m must've required some guts.