How to Stream Last Breath on Peacock at Home Right Now
Settle in for a one of the most breathtaking rescues in recent history.
In 2012, a team of saturation divers descended to 300 feet beneath the North Sea. They were on the job doing some underwater repairs when something went horribly wrong. The navigational systems controlling their support vessel stopped working.
In a matter of moments, the support ship on the surface started to drift and the divers on the seafloor, each connected to the ship by an umbilicus, got pulled along with it. When diver Chris Lemons got pinned against a massive underwater scaffold, his tether snapped, stranding him on the ocean floor.
With the ship’s navigation systems still on the fritz, it became a life-or-death race against time to save him. And now Last Breath, a survival thriller based on the real-life events, is streaming on Peacock!
What is Last Breath based on?
Lemons (played by Finn Cole) was part of a trio, alongside Dave Yuasa (Simu Liu) and Duncan Allcock (Woody Harrelson). During the dive, Yuasa went into the depths with Lemons while Allcock remained in the diving bell to supervise.
Saturation divers work at depths for extended periods and it doesn’t make sense to compress and decompress over and over. Instead, they live inside pressurized quarters, like a small space station sequestered inside a larger support ship. From their pressurized homes, they descend to the seafloor inside a diving bell, before returning again to their pressurized environment. They’ll stay in that environment for nearly a month before a four-day decompression cycle and their return to the surface world.
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This kind of extended pressurization makes constant diving easier, but it also means that if you get left 300 feet underwater, you can’t just swim to the surface. Once your body is pressurized, the only safe places on the planet are on the ocean floor or back in your artificial habitat.
Underwater, saturation divers depend on their umbilicus, a thick collection of cables and tubes connected to the dive suit. The umbilicus delivers a steady supply of breathable air, temperature regulation (in the form of warm water running through the suit) and a line of communication with other divers and with the ship.
The umbilicus is a literal lifeline between worlds, and it only works because of computer controlled dynamic positioning systems which keep the ship locked in position over the dive site. When those systems fail… well, you’ll have to watch and see.
Is Last Breath streaming on Peacock?
You can watch Last Breath right now, streaming on Peacock.
Last Breath was directed by Alex Parkinson. It is adapted from the 2019 documentary of the same name, which Parkinson also directed with Richard da Costa.
Both versions tell the story of a real-world diving accident and the heroic rescue efforts which followed in the North Sea. Last Breath stars Finn Cole, Simu Liu, and Woody Harrelson.
