speaking of jacques cousteau.e on. >> yeah. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: you didn't have to wear that little knit cap. >> joel: what if you pushed that submarine out of an airplane? >> whoa. now, see that i would -- that i would see. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: look at you -- >> you gotta wear the cap. >> jimmy: now, why? >> it's a rule. it's like -- >> jimmy: you think that you're jacques cousteau? >> it's explorer 101. >> jimmy: it really is, right? it is, it is. but is there any reason behind the -- >> well, look. it's a steel sphere that you sit inside that keeping you from getting crushed by the pressure. and it -- and you're going to a place where it's basically ice water. so, the steel sphere turns ice cold. and you're head's, you know, like right up against it, so -- you know. wear the -- the cap, so you don't get, like -- you know, like when you get a headache from eating a popsicle? >> jimmy: oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> it's like that from the outside. >> jimmy: wow. >> yeah. >> jimmy: yeah, that's a great

bond through jacques cousteau, and carpenter was interested in the underwater experiments and living that cousteau was giving. goes to cousteau, and cousteau basically says, well, you don't speak french, i can't pay grow, and, hey, you've got a guy in the navy who's doing this stuff anyway, so why don't you a go talk to him? bond and carpenter hit it off, and bond's quite pleased to have somebody with the stature of an astronaut like scott carpenter which was the second american to orbit the earth in 1962, so here's carpenter just a few years later getting in this on sealab. and what i'm going to do is through the miracles of various technology if they're working here is take you inside sealab ii so you can kind of see what it looks like because, again, this stuff is all kind of unfamiliar, this business of a pressurized compartment, and going in and out through a hatch where the water stops at the doorstep. and so let me see if we can get to the, get to the scene here. all right. can we see that at all? maybe dim the lights a little? >> we'll take what we got. >> all right. i think w

hey, look, jacques cousteau's doing it, you know, how crazy could this be? [laughter] .. i challenge people to find this one. i never have, but that's the day that these guys swam into this first american base at nearly 200 feet which was a substantial debt even for a standard except they were going to stay there for three weeks, which was absolutely unheard of, and presented, possibly not even safe because who knew. so, you can see -- there's dr. bond, lesser andy anderson, dr. robert thompson, they have a doctor down there interest in further studies and keep an eye on things and diverse sanders tiger manning for an elevator takes them down to the deck and from there they have to swim freely 25 for 30 yards or so to get into the lab and i will explain in a minute how that worked but we wanted to play for you is the audio and one thing i saw early on is there's no neatly catalog charnel this was in people's doors and something like a case of an unmarked if anybody remembers who the real format these tapes have now been from a realtor real and digital cassette, so they ar

jacque cousteau is doing it, how crazy could this be? so, though all the research shows their association was not close but they were friendly. kind of knew what each other was doing, and in fact cousteau had a couple of observers that were invited to hang around during sealab and see how it went. this is bond and cousteau at a conference they both attended. not the only conference on underwater activities as they were often called, that the two were at together. so, these are your first american aqua knot gnats. you can't name them, but july 20, 1964, also a date you'd be hard-pressed to find in this sort of like 100 greatest moments in science and exploration of the century. i challenge people to find this one. i never have. but that's the day these four guys swam into this first american sea floor base at nearly 200 feet, which was substantial depth, even for a standard dive, except they were going to stay there for three weeks, which was absolutely unheard of. unprecedented. possibly not even safe because who knew. so, you can see tha

. >> about two and a half years ago i was working my way through a biography of the jacques cousteau and i got a call from a fellow that said they've got this incredible story and i said what's the story about and they said titanic and i said o.k. i'm going now. i checked into it and i found out that only more words had been written about jesus and the civil war than had been written about titanic and i wasn't on the mood to get on apply all and i said who are these guys? there's a great book about a submarine found off the coast of new jersey and its called shadow diverse. the second to the last thing i want to do is write son of shadow divers that sounds like a career killer but i will talk to him. so they told me the story they told you now about finding these pieces on the bottom, and i thought i asked a number of questions right away what do the witnesses say and the witnesses said many of them said they had their back turned from the wreckage and they felt no way they turned back around and was gone. i remember this conversation we had and i met out and i met john and rich g. a