Female Film Critics 24/375
If you enjoy sitting on the edge of your seat, heart-racing, biting your nails with anxiety about what will happen next, Last Breath is for you. Based on a true story, it’s about a diver performing routine pipeline repair work 300 feet below the surface of the North Sea when the cable attached to his diving bell snapped, leaving him stranded in the dark with his oxygen running out.
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Last Breath‘s opening titles impressively set the stage for the heart-stopping thriller that follows. They state that “2,000 miles of pipeline sprawl across the ocean maintained by saturation divers working at depths up to 1,000 feet. It is one of the most dangerous jobs on Earth.” That alone gives any average individual pause. Next, in stark contrast, the establishing shot of a beautiful green landscape and a calm sea at Aberdeen Harbor belies the danger posed by the North Sea job undertaken by dive team A comprised of Chris Lemons, Dave Yuasa, and Duncan Allcock, September, 2012. Truth-based Last Breath provides a fascinating glimpse into the rare world of deep sea repair work and rescue.
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Last Breath is the true story of deep sea divers tasked with repairing an underwater gas pipeline off the coast of Scotland when a mishap occurs. The rig is on the floor of the North Sea and there’s a terrible storm and a computer malfunction on the ship and only minutes of air left in the diver’s backup tank and…like the lamp oil lasting an extra 8 days in the Jerusalem Temple commemorating Hanukkah, a miracle occurs.
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