Trapped

Documentary

82 min. and 58 min.

A ship goes down outside the coast of West Africa. Everyone on board is drowning - except the ship’s cook. Stranded in a small pocket of air in water to his neck, deep inside the ship’s wreck, he now awaits a slow and painful death as the oxygen slowly disappears.

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This is the captivating, extraordinary and larger-than-life documentary of how the unexperienced industrial diver, Nico, rescues the cook from certain death against all odds. However, when Nico miraculously finds the ship’s cook alive, having survived for three days under extremely life-threatening conditions, his problems have just started. Nico must now embark on an extremely complicated and life-threatening rescue mission, to get the cook through the ship’s narrow passages alive. The film keeps the audience on the edge of their seats and is told through authentic footage and audio from the divers’ helmet cameras and radio communication system. This extraordinary rescue mission describes daring heroism, sacrifice, hope, friendship - and that the time for miracles are not over yet.

  • Director

    Lasse Spang Olsen

  • Producer

    Lasse Spang Olsen, Sofie Wanting Hassing

  • Produced by

    Been There, Done That Productions for DR

  • Format

    82 min. and 58 min.

  • Release

    2023