Synopsis

This is the true story of two men's heroic but seemingly impossible struggle for survival. A ship's cook is stranded in an air pocket in the wreckage of a sunken ship 34 meters below the surface of the sea. With almost no oxygen and no one knowing he was alive. But someone comes to his rescue anyway. Three days after the shipwreck, a rescue ship arrives to retrieve the dead from the wreckage. A newly trained diver is the first to be sent in, and to his horror and great surprise he finds the ship's cook alive deep inside the sunken ship. But it's only now that the trouble really begins, and they're both in mortal danger. Uniquely, the entire miraculous rescue operation was filmed by the divers' helmet cameras and all their communications were recorded. For three years, Lasse Spang Olsen has traveled the world and found those involved who - for the first time - are now talking about their experiences at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in one of the world's most bizarre rescue operations.