00:00All right, Mike, can you give me an audio check?
00:07Copy that.
00:09Relatively comfortable in there, over.
00:11Absolutely. Everything's gone.
00:14He was a different little boy. He really was.
00:18In the immortal words of Buzz Lightyear,
00:21To infinity and beyond!
00:24He quit being scared.
00:25I don't know how he exactly looked fear in the eye, but he did.
00:28I might agree, and I've been lucky enough
00:30To swim with and film sharks like this for 30 years.
00:35The problems of getting those sort of shots
00:38Depended on people like Mike.
00:40And of course, there weren't many people like Mike.
00:43He was mostly an explorer
00:45Because he liked to come back with the stories.
00:50It's something that nobody had ever seen before.
00:54Mike liked the deep because it literally was a final frontier opportunity.
01:00To me, it's one of the great mysteries of the sea.
01:04Why we have so neglected the ocean.
01:07Imagine if you just knew about the skin of our own bodies.
01:10When I heard on April 20th that an oil rig had exploded in the Gulf of Mexico,
01:17It got my attention.
01:18It is nearly a mile deep and more than 20 miles long.
01:21This injury to the Gulf where he grew up,
01:25He took personally and he wanted to do something about it.
01:29This was a problem that needed solution.
01:31This was the footage I couldn't stop watching in the edit room.
01:35To the insane amounts of money.
01:37Because Mike had so obviously become a different guy.
01:45There was a moment I felt, it's just not worth it.
01:49The risk is not worth it.
01:52It's not worth it to the families to get that phone call.
01:56I couldn't even believe that what you were about to tell me was even, you know, possible.
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