Chris Lemons survived an extraordinary amount of time without oxygen at the bottom of the sea, both in real life and at the ending of Last Breath.

That’s the fate that real-life diver Chris Lemons nearly faced in 2012. And now, his harrowing story is a major Hollywood movie, aka Last Breath, which opened in theaters last week.

Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Chris Lemons at Focus Features' "Last Breath" premiere on February 25, 2025 in New York City. Chris Lemons is a former saturation diver from Scotland.

How long did Chris Lemons survive without oxygen? In the Last Breath 's credits it was stated that Lemons was without oxygen for 29 minutes. That is true.

Director Alex Parkinson’s survival thriller “Last Breath” is an adaptation of his 2019 documentary of the same name, based on the real life story of saturation diver Chris Lemons (Finn Cole, “Locked ...

The job description “professional diver” doesn’t do justice to what Chris Lemons did for a living. The 32-year-old native of Edinburgh was part of an elite group of aquanauts known as ...

Last Breath is based on the real-life story of Chris Lemons, a deep sea diver who somehow lived through nearly 40 minutes of oxygen deprivation.

Woody Harrelson, Finn Cole, and Simu Liu star in a retelling of saturation diver Chris Lemons’s ordeal under the North Sea, where he was trapped without oxygen for nearly an hour.

A DIVER whose near death experience has been turned into a Hollywood movie admits he’d hoped to get away with it without having to tell his parents. Edinburgh-born Chris Lemons lay on the bottom ...