Living Underwater: Extreme Deep Diving

Every Little Thing

Gimlet

Comedy, Education, Science

4.6 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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When scuba divers go deep, it can take a full day to resurface. Caller Daniela wants to know: how do they drink, eat and excrete while underwater? Fish biologist Richard Pyle gives us the lowdown on deep diving. Plus, saturation diver Michael Meusel lives in an underwater chamber for a month at a time for his job. He tells us about the challenges of deep sea work, like hammering underwater and breathing helium-laced air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You've reached the every little thing helpline. Please make a splash after the tone.
0:07.0	Hi, ELT. My name's Finella, and I recently watched a documentary about deep teeth scuba divers,
0:16.0	and their dives were so deep the whole process would take around 12 hours.
0:24.0	What if you need to poop when you're underwater for 12 hours?
0:30.0	How can you go that long without eating or drinking water? I mean, how is this possible?
0:37.0	Hello.
0:41.0	Ohoy, Danielle. It's Flora from ELT.
0:44.0	Hi. So, what is your relationship to the Great Blue Sea?
0:49.0	So, when I was a teenager, my family lived in Honduras, and this is where I had my first experience snorkeling,
0:59.0	and seeing coral reefs, and it just made a huge impression on me, and later on as an adult,
1:06.0	I learned how to scuba dive, and it's been incredible.
1:10.0	What do you like about it? What has drawn you in about it?
1:18.0	It's just, when you go down, you see the rays of light shining down in the water,
1:26.0	and everything is quiet. You just hear bubbles.
1:31.0	The coral reef makes kind of a crackling sound.
1:35.0	You hear the fish eating, and that makes kind of a crackling sound to, like, race crispies.
1:42.0	It's pleasant.
1:48.0	What's the coolest thing you've ever seen? One time I saw manta rays underneath us,
1:54.0	like, they swim in a group, and they hover close to the ground. Those were the biggest things I've ever seen.
2:02.0	There is big as I am.
2:05.0	And they're flat, right? They're raised, so it's like, of giant rug swimming beneath you?
2:09.0	Yeah.
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