https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/mar/04/bottom-north-sea-running-out-air-no-hope-rescue

Dearest,

I stumbled onto the documentary version of this story last night and counted myself blessed that I could watch a YouTube clip about the story with the crucial information that he survived.

Many dive stories do not have such relief-washed denouements.

It is hard to see just “lucky” when Lemons’ story seems to be awash with signs of miraculous interventions.

He did not get shredded by the manifold.

He was able to locate the manifold in profound darkness.

His body was moving in ways that signaled to others that he was still alive when he was already unconscious.

He was revived with two rescue breaths.

He sustained no brain damage.

He is, whatever else you might say, a full medical miracle.

Yet this story hinges on many miracles—the men on the boat, manual overrides, training in a crisis, the efficacy of the ROV, the race against time.

You want, we all need, someone who keeps searching for us when hope seems lost.

Mark 5:38-43 KJV
[38] And he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly. [39] And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth. [40] And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying. [41] And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. [42] And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment. [43] And he charged them straitly that no man should know it; and commanded that something should be given her to eat.