It's amazing that, in the right context, curling up in a fetal position and remaining very quiet can seem heroic. I'm sure that Hollywood will add some embellishments in their retelling: <a href="http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/jude-law-ewan-mcgregor-linked-to-cumbrian-man-s-sub-rescue-film-1.1081252" rel="nofollow">http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/jude-law-ewan-mcgregor-lin...</a>
This is incredibly terrifying and at the same time a testament to mans desire to live and ingenuity to survive.<p>I wonder what OH&S would think about the situatin today.
>I wasn't in the best condition anyway as I had just suffered three or four days food poisoning from a horrible meat and potato pie.<p>>"It turned out it was the Queen Elizabeth II, which had altered its course from America to stand station with us in response to the mayday. But because it was so formal, we'd assumed it was the Queen. Then the message came 'sorry boys, wrong lady'."<p>This is why I love reading/listening to the BBC.
This article has a pretty good picture of what a Pisces submersible looks like:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisces_class_DSV" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisces_class_DSV</a><p>And this reference from the above article shows a cut-away diagram of the vehicle, with people inside so you can get a sense of the size of the crew compartment:<p><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=1X1hL2LFT0AC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=rescue+of+Pisces+III+submarine&source=bl&ots=HM7zS7E4Eb&sig=Uv5Z3LxSvFt5x-sb9WsPuc48bLk&hl=en&ei=QV_2TM-sN9K1ngeu6ZijCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=rescue%20of%20Pisces%20III%20submarine&f=false" rel="nofollow">http://books.google.com/books?id=1X1hL2LFT0AC&pg=PA84&lpg=PA...</a>
> the men had only 12 minutes of oxygen left when they were finally rescued<p>Jesus, you seriously think we'd believe it's been 3 days then it goes down to 12 mins to death.<p>Life is not hollywood, please stop trying to make it that. It's kinda interesting as it is.