Most normal humans had no idea what saturation diving was until Richard da Costa and Alex Parkinson’s 2019 documentary Last Breath. The film recounts the true story of Chris Lemons, a saturation diver whose umbilical snapped 300 feet below the surface of the North Sea while repairing an oil rig. Although he only had about five minutes of oxygen left in his emergency tank, he spent over 35 minutes lying motionless at the bottom of the sea until he was picked up by his shipmates.

Parkinson’s documentary taught the world two very important lessons: One is that saturation divers, who work at perilous depths of up to 1000 feet while living in a tiny capsule for weeks at a time, are insane. The other is that the dangers of saturation diving, performed mostly for the gas and oil industries, are the biggest reasons to just forget this whole gas thing and hand everyone an Ev.