Chris Lemons

  • London, UK
  • Range USD 10,001 - 20,000

Tagline: Inspirational Speaker

Talent Highlights

  • Chris’s extraordinary brush with death gave him an opportunity to contemplate his own, seemingly imminent, mortality. 
  • He is able to share how in accepting the inevitability of his own death in those final conscious minutes on the seabed, he was able to find a state of calm and reflect on what was most important in his life. 
  • The miracle of his subsequent survival has given him an acute sense of what death really means, and he is able reflect with audiences on how these insights are as important in life, as they were in death.

Chris Lemons has been a commercial diver for over 14 years, and currently specialises in deep sea Saturation diving, operating almost exclusively in the Oil and Gas Industry. This highly specialised form of diving involves living in the claustrophobic confines of a decompression chamber for up to 28 days at a time, commuting daily to […]

Chris Lemons has been a commercial diver for over 14 years, and currently specialises in deep sea Saturation diving, operating almost exclusively in the Oil and Gas Industry.

This highly specialised form of diving involves living in the claustrophobic confines of a decompression chamber for up to 28 days at a time, commuting daily to the sea-bed in a diving bell, and working at depths of up to 900 feet for 6 hours at a time.

In September of 2012, a freak failure of the dynamic positioning system of the vessel he was working under, resulted in the umbilical which provides him with breathing gas, light and heat being severed completely. He was left on the sea-bed, in complete darkness 300 feet below the surface, with only the 5 minutes of breathing gas he carried in the emergency tanks on his back, and no way to protect himself from the freezing temperatures.

It took his heroic rescuers over 40 minutes to come back and fetch him, and his miraculous survival story has baffled experts ever since.

Chris Lemons extraordinary story was subsequently immortalised in the hit Netflix/BBC documentary ‘Last Breath,’ whilst Chris continues to dive to this day.

He was born in Edinburgh, raised in Cambridge, and now lives in the Scottish Highlands with his wife and daughter.

Chris Lemons | Epic Motivational Inspiration

Motivational Public Speaking

Chris Lemons is happy to tailor his address to align with your specific theme or requirements, which may include focusing on the safety aspect and lessons learned from the accident, the human and emotional elements involved, or a more generic oversight of the offshore and saturation diving world.

Chris Lemons can offer you an insight into the relatively unknown world of Saturation Diving, where those involved spend weeks on end confined to a compression chamber, whilst being lowered each day in a diving bell to the murky depths of the ocean floor to do their work.

He will also talk you through the lead up to that fateful day in 2012 and give you a very personal account of his thoughts and actions when he was left stranded 300 feet down in the icy darkness with no heat, no light and only 5 minutes of gas left to breathe, with his rescuers over 40 minutes away from being able to get to him.

Chris Lemons offers an acute, honest and emotional testimony of what goes through ones mind when seemingly counting down the minutes to death, and how surprising and revealing ones response to such a situation can be.

He also tentatively explores how staring death in the face can focus ones mind on life, as well as force you to contemplate the very finite nature of our time here on earth. Chris also discusses the practical and physiological reasons which may have contributed to his miraculous survival.

He moves beyond the miracle and communicates how teamwork, preparation, training, procedures, drills and practice played a huge role in his recovery and survival, and how the nature of how these are implemented can benefit your sphere of work or life.

Chris is also delighted to engage in question and answer sessions on any of the subjects related above.

Previous clients have included the Titan Summit in Toronto, HSBC, Shell UK, Exon Mobil, BP, the Royal Society of Medicine in London, BioMarin, Tracerco, Deep Ocean and many others.

Contact us at Speakers Inc and follow us on Twitter

Keynote Topics

Chris can discuss how strong leadership plays a vital role in all spheres of the work he does. 

From a robust chain of command, right through to individual leadership whilst working on the ocean floors, Chris is able to share how clear-cut but objective governance is key to the safe and efficient running of complicated and inherently dangerous offshore subsea operations. 

He can also describe how this same clear minded and well-rehearsed structure of leadership played a pivotal role in saving his life, and how you can use these same methods to enhance the day to day running and crisis management within your own domain.

Chris’s extraordinary brush with death gave him an opportunity to contemplate his own, seemingly imminent, mortality. 

He is able to share how in accepting the inevitability of his own death in those final conscious minutes on the seabed, he was able to find a state of calm and reflect on what was most important in his life. 

The miracle of his subsequent survival has given him an acute sense of what death really means, and he is able reflect with audiences on how these insights are as important in life, as they were in death.

Gallery

Videos

Chris Lemons belongs to these Categories

Author Books | Magazine Covers

Send an enquiry to Chris Lemons

Enquiry Form
  • Base price ({{ repeatDayCount }} {{ config.calendar.range_mode === 'nights' ? "nights" : "days" }})

    {{ priceFormat( pricing.base_price ) }}

  • Total

    {{ priceFormat( pricing.total ) }}

Event Information

Latest status updates from Chris Lemons, if you want to have all latest news then click the follow button.
You can then view all updates for your Newsfeed through your Dashboard on all those you follow.

Similar Speakers for consideration

  • 21 views
  • 5 (4 )
Jim Lawless

Across the world, I find people now expect change and will deliver it fast: but only when they have the skills to do so.” – Jim Lawless, International Motivational Speaker & Author.Empowering Bold Change: Fast  “People resist change? Change takes time? How to change our activities to deliver new outcomes is a core professional skill in the age […]

  • London, UK
  • 5 views
Inga Beale

Dame Inga Beale is an acknowledged business leader in financial services and a popular keynote speaker. Inga was CEO of Lloyd’s of London from 2013 – 2018. She was the first woman to be appointed to this position in the 326 years of the company’s history.  She was also the first leader to move the company from […]

  • London, UK
  • 22 views
speakers inc

At the age of 25, Rob Moore was £50k in consumer debt; less than five years later, a self-made multi-millionaire. He co-founded the Progressive Group – starting with Progressive Property, then Progressive Successes and the Entrepreneurs Business academy (EBA). Rob’s training companies are one of the largest in the UK, & now globally. He continues […]

  • London, UK
  • 27 views
Sahar Hashemi

Sahar Hashemi, founded Coffee Republic, the UK’s first US style coffee bar chain with her brother and built it into one of the UK’s most recognised high street brands, and one of the first players in the ‘coffee revolution’ that transformed the UK high street. In 2019 Sahar published her latest book Startup Forever. She […]

  • London, UK
  • 16 views
Paris Lees

Paris Lees is a highly inspirational transgender woman, who has continually raised awareness and empowered acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community. The first transgender woman to appear in British Vogue and become a columnist in the publication, Paris has also written in the likes of The Independent, The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian expressing her concerns […]

  • London, UK
  • 8 views
Anna Turney

Anna Turney accident in 2006 left her paralysed from the waist down, but she just wanted to compete in the Winter Games; that was her dream, her passion, her goal. Anna didn’t give up on her dreams and after spending a long five weeks in a Japanese hospital, she returned to Britain and instantly began […]

  • London, UK
  • 17 views
  • 5 (4 )
speakers inc

Blind Adventurer and international Motivational Speaker Miles Hilton-Barber is one of the most widely sought-after motivational speakers on the world circuit today, having had the privilege of speaking at over 1,000 corporate events in 69 countries around the world to date. Despite losing his sight in his early twenties, his quality of life and level […]

  • Derby, UK
  • 3 views
Kanya King

Kanya King is the founder and CEO of the MOBO Awards, an awards ceremony established to appreciate music from black backgrounds. Passionate to create a more diverse and inclusive world, Kanya has increased representation of the genres of reggae, jazz, hip hop, grime and rap and recognised people from black backgrounds across music, arts, media, culture […]

  • London, UK
  • 3 views
Martine Wright

Martine Wright MBE is a Paralympian and an inspirational speaker who lost her legs during the 7/7 London Bombings. The 2005 London Bombings were a series of coordinated suicide attacks targeting civilians on public transport during the morning rush hour on 7th July 2005. As a result of the 7/7 attacks, fifty-two people lost their lives, and […]

  • London, UK
  • 19 views
Ishmael Beah

Ishmael Beah is a bestselling author and UNICEF advocate for children affected by war. His #1 New York Times bestselling memoir A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier has been published in more than 40 languages and sold over 2.6 million copies. As The Washington Post urged: “everyone in the world should read this book.” His remarkable debut is both […]

  • Los Angeles, CA
  • 26 views
  • 5 (3 )

Adrian Hayes is a British record-breaking adventurer, author, speaker, business coach, documentary presenter and sustainability campaigner. An Arabic and Nepalese speaking former British Army Gurkha Officer, who also spent two years in the Special Forces, he has conquered Everest, K2, the North and South Poles, the length of Greenland by kite-ski and the Arabian Desert […]

  • London, UK
  • 9 views

England Sevens Captain and renowned rugby speaker Ollie Phillips is the most successful Sevens Captain in recent British history, with a career covering more than a decade Phillips is known for his position as a winger or fullback. Ollie Phillips, who plays for both Stade Français and the England Sevens team, has competed in twenty World Series games and scored almost […]

  • London, UK
Disclaimer
The profiles and images embedded on these pages are from various keynote speakers and talent.

These remain the property of its owner and are not affiliated with or endorsed by Speakers Inc.

Fee ranges where listed on this website are intended to serve as a guideline only.
 
All talent fees local taxes, travel and accommodation where required.
 
Fees are subject to change without notice and often vary based on a number of factors, including: schedule, timings, script writing, rehearsals, location, and other factors.
 
Please contact us with your specific event details and requirements below, and we would be delighted to provide you with a more bespoke quote.

We are actively working to have our profiles current with Keynote Speech titles, and Summaries.

Some Speakers do not have a set title or summary for their topic lists. Instead they customize for each. Other speakers only do moderated conversations.

If you do not see content here, please contact us.

We also have ample information off line that we can share as some do not want to have visible profiles and as such these are hidden pages. Or in the event we do not have the information, we can contact the speaker to provide and share.

ENQUIRE HERE