WEBVTT - How Scuba Works 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:05.000 Welcome to Stuff you should know, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:13.520 Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:15.720 Chuck and Jerry's here too, And it's a good old 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:20.840 fashioned barn burner whiz banger of an episode. I ran 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.239 out of weird colloquialism. 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.240 Oh yeah, yeah, just now, didn't you hear? Uh? Yeah, 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.200 but I just figured you were still doing them in 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:29.600 your head. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:34.839 No, I was frantically grasping for another one in my 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:37.800 head and it was just dust and a tumbleweed. 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:45.040 So this is sort of continuing our underwater series we'll 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:45.360 call it. 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:48.239 Yeah, this is so stuff you should know. We've done, 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:53.320 like stuff that's like much more specific about the general 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:56.040 category that we're talking about. And now we're finally doing 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:57.120 the general category. 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:02.000 Yeah, we did the diving, Bell did the butterfly, We 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.319 did we did cave diving. In fact, Cave Diving was 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.840 released as a as a select just this year. Yes, 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:11.560 such a good one. And uh, do I need to 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:17.039 remind you about the other related episode. I forgot about that. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:18.240 I'll get you. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:24.559 Yeah, I remember, I remember the Scuba Cat episode. Didn't 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.240 you interview Scuba Cat? 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.720 Oh? Yeah, I mean for those of you who don't know. 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.480 The short version is many many years ago. In the 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:37.240 very early days of the podcast, occasionally we were sort 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:43.640 of told to do certain things, and two of them 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.720 really stand out to me. One of them was Scuba 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:49.080 Cat I know what I Know you do, which was 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.000 this guy who trained his cat to scuba dive. And 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:56.160 it's literally like a a blurb or maybe a little 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.400 fluffy news piece at the end of a of a 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:01.520 news program and there like do a stuff you should 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.440 know episode on this cat and this guy. Why though, 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.360 do you remember did they just want page views or something. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:09.760 I guess, or else that guy happened to be friends 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.240 with you know, whoever owned the company at the time. 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:14.840 All right, So there, I think there was an article 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.280 on the website we worked for and they were probably 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:19.400 just trying to drive people to that. So we did 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.440 one on scuba Cat. I would really love that just 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.800 to be scrubbed. But then the archive, well, way to 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:25.680 go bringing it up. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.680 Then what was I going to say, Chuck, wasn't this 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.560 thing in like a little submarine kind of is Isn't 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:33.960 that what the scuba diving was? 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.120 I don't think so. I think he built him a 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:39.280 little little outfit. Oh okay, wow, a little thing with 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.200 like a you know, a big bubble mask. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.040 Okay, that's worth an episode. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.560 We could redo it. We should two thousand and eight redus. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.000 What's the other one you want to I know we're 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:51.600 going to say it. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.440 I we could say at the same time. I think 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:55.239 he's going. 0:02:55.040 --> 0:03:01.720 To be three two one innovators. Yeah, what can you 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:03.639 do with an Altoid's den? Yeah? 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.400 For real, Like, I don't know how that one came 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.280 up either, but we were instructed to do an episode 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:15.000 on tenovators and they were interesting, but not episode length. 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.320 Interesting even when they were six minutes long. 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.400 Yeah, and a tenovator, Just for those of you who 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.600 don't know, they take Altoid tens and they do things 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:26.080 with them like turn them into radios. Maybe they hold 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:31.040 coins instead of altoids. It's just repurposation. And yeah, exactly, 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:33.280 it's repurposing an altoidenovation. 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.560 Very well boy. And we always talk about Jackhammers in 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.960 the sun like that's because we're literally too ashamed to 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:41.040 even mention those other two. But here they are. Go 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:44.880 listen to them. Just quickly wanted to say I got 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:49.680 back from Mexico and I did not scuba dive, I snorkeled, 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.640 Oh yeah, it's fun, and I didn't. I mean, I 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.440 love the experience, but I learned that I and especially 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.240 my daughter are free divers. Oh yeah, she couldn't do it. Man, 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:01.720 We got her, I mean, she loves to swim more 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:03.560 than anything. And we got her in all the gear, 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.840 put her in the water, and she was bitch to 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:07.800 fit quite frankly. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.240 Oh like, she couldn't breathe through the tube. 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:15.240 She does it in pools like it just you know, 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:18.479 when you're eight, things happen and you can't explain why 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.120 a kid will dig in. But she wasn't into it. 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.000 We were very frustrated, did not handle it well. She 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.000 asked to get back on the boat. She got back 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:30.520 on the boat and cried, while we scuba are sorry, snorkeled. 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:32.800 We're like, we're out here, we're gonna do it. You know, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:37.120 you'll be okay. And then once we were done, she 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:40.360 asked the scuba guys or the snorkel guys, can I 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.440 just get in with my mask and free dive? And 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:47.159 it was in Mexico. They're like, sure, right, and she 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.480 did and she turned into a dolphin and I recounted 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:52.640 this on Instagram. It took some great pictures of her 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:57.360 just swimming like no kid has ever loved swimming before, 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.280 and it was just a big lesson for everybody. 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:05.120 I know what happened, though, I think, unless I'm misreading it, 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.720 she got claustrophobic from having to breathe through that tube. 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:12.040 Now she does it all the time in pools. What 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:17.000 it was I think was wearing the life fest keeping 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:17.960 her up on the surface. 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.760 Oh okay, well you left that little detail out. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.840 Well, I mean that's part of snorkeling. Is you gotta 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.400 vest on so that keeps you up top? And she 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.599 was like, no, no, no, I belong down there. My 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.000 home is the sea. As funny Prince Billy. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.760 Says, I got youa okay, well that makes a lot 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.240 more sense. I guess I was just projecting onto her 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.720 because I used to get claustrophobic trying to breathe through 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:39.320 a snorkel. 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.120 Well, a lot of people on Instagram supported that and said, 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:43.800 you know, I have a hard time with this equipment too, 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.080 and I love to swim, but it was really that lifefest. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:46.440 I think. 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:50.200 Okay, all right, well we finally established the root cause. 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.799 Then yeah, but here we go with scuba. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.640 Oh okay, I guess okay, So what does SCUBA stand for? 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:06.560 Chuck? Self contained, underway, breathing, uh, situation, appomattics, appomatics, apparatus. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.520 That's right, scuba. It's actually like an acronym, but it's 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:14.080 so used, so widely used now it's a lower case word. 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.760 I'm not sure really, yeah, I mean like it's not 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.159 nobody does it with capitals and periods or anything like that. 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.000 It's just lower It's a word. It's its own word. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.120 Now it's almost lost its meaning as far as like 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.320 the acronym goes. And yet it's gained so much meaning 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:34.360 over the years because as scuba has been around for 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.560 over the decades, more and more people have found the 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.000 joy of going underwater. 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:41.719 And I heard you laugh at me, by the way. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:46.520 And breathe if you breathe fully underward, no snorkel, Like 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.200 your head is nowhere near the surface of the water, 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.960 and it doesn't need to be like significantly distant from 0:06:53.040 --> 0:06:55.160 the water. It can just be like a foot below 0:06:55.240 --> 0:06:59.000 the water. But you're breathing underwater. It's an amazing feeling, 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.719 for sure, and a lot of people have discovered that 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.400 over the years and said, scuba is the life for me. 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:11.240 Well, as of December twenty nineteen, you had scuba dived once. Yep. 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.560 Have you done it since? No? 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:20.480 And I'm actually a little troubled because I read that 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:25.640 you're supposed to go like three or four open water dives, 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.000 and I only went on one. So I've been under 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.400 the impression that I've been certified to scuba dive all 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.400 this time, and I'm like, I, is that true. I 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.720 can't remember where my card is or anything. So I 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:41.200 wonder if I actually wasn't fully certified or satisfied, I 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:44.200 would find it very dissatisfying if that were true. 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.120 Well, do you want to do it again? Because I 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:48.280 didn't get a good read on you in twenty nineteen. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.200 Maybe I didn't know you then, like I know, you know. 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.560 Maybe because I before. The reason I didn't like is 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:59.120 because I got it made me seasick, like the air 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.480 mixture did not sit well with me, and then getting 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:04.960 on the boat in between dives made it even worse. 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:07.560 So I was like, I don't feel like doing this 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.800 over again, but I think enough times past that it's 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:11.120 possible I would try it again. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.640 Well, I want to get certified now, for sure. I 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.920 did anyway before and we thought we'd wed our beaks 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:23.239 with snorkeling. The big problem I had, man was the fins. 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:25.800 I mean, there were a lot of currents, and I 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:28.840 just I felt like I couldn't go and get anywhere. Yeah, 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.960 And then at the end, when Ruby was free diving, 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:33.560 I did the same thing. I took off all my 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.199 stuff except for my mask, and I went down there 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.360 and I was like, all right, well this is I 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:39.600 feel like I can swim again. 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:42.600 Yeah, it's all It takes a lot of getting used 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.240 to because it is it's meant to help you, and 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.160 it does if you are familiar with it and comfortable 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:51.280 with it, but if not, it's all encumbrance. It makes 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:53.600 everything difficult. And like, yes, you just want to take 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:55.400 it all off and just free dive, like you're. 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.600 Saying, yeah, Emily was cruising around, but you know, we 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:01.800 saw a little my first like coral that I've ever seen, 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:05.240 like live coral, and it was beautiful and you know, 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.760 the little stripey bright fish and I was I was 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:11.560 in there with those guys for the first time, and 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:14.480 it was it was remarkable and amazing. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.920 Was it a dory or a nemo that you saw. 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.400 Oh, I don't know. It had I think yellow stripes. 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.640 I don't think it was technically a clownfish, although maybe 0:09:23.640 --> 0:09:26.520 they're all types of clownfish. I'm not sure what's a clownfish. 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:30.560 I think like a dory or a nemo. I saw 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.240 this one big thing that was like the size of 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:36.000 a dinner plate. Another big flat guy. Wow, he was cool. 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.240 And then Emily saw sea turtle, which I did not see. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.040 And then we also saw their efforts to you know, 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:45.760 with artificial reefs, with like these PVC sort of pyramids 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:50.559 that they were building down there. God blood anyway, people, Right, Yeah, 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:52.520 this coral wasn't in great shape. It was in parts, 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.920 but other parts were not great and that was sad. 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.880 Yeah, you can thank the fossil fuel industry for that. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:02.160 That's right, So Chuck. One thing that I had no 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:06.160 idea about with researching this scuba episode is that it 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.040 actually the scuba phenomenon, I guess you could call it 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:13.920 dates back to the mid nineteenth century, and it's not 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.240 like somebody had an idea and then one hundred years 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.559 later somebody actually created it. Someone in the eighteen sixties 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.360 actually created the first scuba equipment. 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.839 That's right. Are you going to say his name? You're 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.800 gonna make me do it, but I'll say the first name, 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:32.080 mid Benoir, Okay. 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:37.640 And it's a rook way roll or rock and Roll's 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.240 that what that means? I don't think so, but it 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.760 looks when you pronounce it, it sounds a lot like 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:43.440 rock and roll. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:45.880 Yeah, rooke and or roll. 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:49.320 Rookoy roll yeah, rock and roll. 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.760 Yeah. So he's obviously French, and he was not trying 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:57.000 to figure out a way to recreationally dive in the ocean. 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:00.880 He was trying to figure out a way to help others, 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:06.240 rescue workers rescue people in collapsed minds because these things 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.040 would get filled up with nasty gases. And he was like, well, 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:12.160 I think I can invent the system that allows these 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.240 rescuers to go down there and breathe safely so they 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.080 can save these people. And he called that first one 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:23.040 a regulator for equalization of compressed gas A little on. 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:27.520 The noise, A regulator, sure, sure, so I guess it 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:28.800 was a little verbose. 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.840 Yeah, or a demand regulator. Yeah. 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.120 And the reason it was a demand regulator, and this 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.240 is the this is the big deal like you could 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.719 feed somebody air continuously, but you're gonna use up a 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.600 lot of air. You might overinflate their lungs accidentally, which 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.200 is that it could be a problem with novices in scuba. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.440 But a demand regulator means that you're only sucking in 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:54.160 that compressed air when you're breathing in. When you exhale, 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:58.320 that air is no longer coming into your mouth, into 0:11:58.320 --> 0:11:58.920 your gullet. 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.560 Yeah, it's on demand, like the best movies. 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:07.800 And this guy along with a guy named Auguste Deni 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:13.800 Rouse Denay Rose dene Rouse, it was in there that 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:15.920 last one I think nailed it. But I think so 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:20.080 Ben Waughan Augos, let's call him. That they got together 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.200 and figure out how to turn this not just into 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.960 a mind safety equipment piece of equipment, but actually to 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:30.760 use it to breathe underwater. So they put the whole 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:33.600 compressed air thing in like a backpack. I get the impression. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.520 It was like a fabric bag holding the compressed air. 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:41.800 They put that demand regulator on, and they were working underwater, 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.600 untethered from any boat, using the first genuine scuba in 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:46.840 the eighteen sixties. 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.960 Yeah, it was like the first Legit diving suit. Essentially, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.240 they had lead sold shoes and they had weights hanging 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:59.000 under your arms. At first, there was still no mask. 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.360 They had used a nose clip, but then a year 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:05.000 later in eighteen sixty six, they brought about the first mask, 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.240 which was a copper helmet with a single window that 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:12.320 they called the groin because it was French for pig 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.720 snout and it kind of looks like a pig snout, Okay, 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:17.680 And they won for this. For their efforts, they won 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.560 the begold medal at the eighteen sixty seven World's Fare 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:22.040 called the aerophoor. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.920 Yeah, they called it the aerophor, right. So, but again, 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:27.800 the thing about this is like you're like, yeah, I've 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:29.920 seen those before, Like there was a haunted one on 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.319 Scooby Doo. There's an air hose coming out of the helmet. No, 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.839 that's the distinction. There's no air host. They were untethered 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:39.160 to anything. They could roam as free as they wanted 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:40.040 on the seafloor. 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:41.280 That's right. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:47.640 So fast forward a few years, geez, about seventy Yeah, 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.200 about seventy years there was another person who had a 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:54.280 very similar idea. What was his name, Christian Lamberton. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.920 Yeah, well there was a guy in the twenties, eve 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:03.360 La Prio, okay, who and Dave helped us out with this. 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.920 Dave duck this guy up and it was sort of 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:07.679 one of the first sort of modern takes on a 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:11.560 scuba system. But the air still wasn't on demand at 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.640 that point. They adjusted the airflow like as they went along, 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:20.400 and then Christian Lambertson came along in nineteen fifty four 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:23.240 and did a couple of things. Well, actually he came 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:27.280 along in nineteen thirty nine with the Lambertson Amphibious Respirator 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:32.080 Unit or the LaRue. Didn't rename it scuba until nineteen 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:37.920 fifty four. But this was a rebreather. It still wasn't 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.440 the same thing. He had a CO two filter and 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.440 he was trying to pitch it to the military. He's like, 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.360 he was an American guy. He's like, look, this thing's 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:48.400 got no bubbles. So he pitched it to the Navy, like, 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.760 you know, you can sneak up on people in other words, sure, 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:53.360 And he pitched it to the Navy. They rejected it. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.080 And then the OSS which the US had at the 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:00.640 time the Office of Strategic Services, would eventually become not 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.640 become the CIA, but sort of become the CIA yeah more. Yeah, 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.640 and they the OSS loved it and like their underwater 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.880 unit like started using this lamberts and scuba unit, even 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.400 though it still wasn't a it was a rebreather and 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.280 we'll talk about all that stuff soon. 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.320 Yeah, which is more advanced than scuba. So this guy 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:23.320 basically just created the more advanced version of scuba out 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:24.360 of the gate, you know. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:25.040 Interesting. 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.920 Yeah, it is very interesting. And his invention was so 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.920 successful that it was used from the fifties to the 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:38.120 eighties by the US military. Yeah, unchanged kind of like 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:41.040 you know, you see like those mid to late eighties 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.680 movies and the cars are still look like they're from 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:47.000 the seventies because nobody updated their stuff until that four 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.720 Tourist came out in nineteen eighty eight and RoboCop. 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:52.920 It's like that, what a great movie. 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:54.880 You know. In the eighties they were like, this is 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:56.560 this is an old timey rebreather. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.880 We need to update this, Yeah, exactly. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.480 So there was a that's almost like a separate track. 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:07.560 Like Christian Lambertson was very much dedicated to inventing this 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.680 stuff for the military. He invented a more advanced version 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.960 of scuba call a rebreather, which we'll talk about. Like 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.120 you said, the much more familiar version of the scuba 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:20.160 story kind of went in parallel and started a few 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.560 about the same time as Christian Lambertson. And it was 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:27.320 a pair of French guys who up to Christian Lamberson, 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:32.120 they were running the scuba world. And it was Jacques 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:35.760 Cristeau and Emil Gagnum, and those two together are the 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.040 ones who gave the world scuba. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:43.200 That's right. I saw Gagnan then also saw he was 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:44.240 French and it was Gagnon. 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.400 Yeah, I know, it's just I didn't want to attempt it. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:48.640 I'm so tired of failing. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.400 Oh no. So they got together, like you said, and 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:58.960 they kind of took Roquai roll. Yeah. Yeah, they took 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.280 his old arm demand regulator and said, all right, I 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:07.000 think we can update this thing. Gaignon and World War 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:12.480 two had invented a regulator that used cooking gas to 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:16.800 feed into the carburetor of a car because the Germans said, 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.560 we're taking all your gas Paris, and so he sort 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:24.920 of retrofitted a way to make a car work. And 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.120 Cusseau was like, this is brilliant. We can use this 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:29.480 for scuba. 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.240 And he's like, you want to huff cooking gas underwater? 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.399 He's like, no, no, we're gonna We're not going to 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:35.960 use the cooking gas gagnin. 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:40.159 Yeah, and also scuba hasn't been so named yet. It 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.800 was still probably about ten years before that, so they 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:46.320 called it the to Jethrow Tolls de Light the Aquaalong. 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.879 Now I had an idea, and I don't know, maybe 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:53.560 I can convince you right here and we'll go back 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:57.600 and edit this part out of anytime we said aqualogue. 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:02.880 Just playing that one little riff, Yeah, exactly. I think 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.119 that we could get away with it. After hearing the 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:08.080 intellectual property episode, I think we could get away with 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:08.960 just that little bit. 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.399 Well, at the very least, you could play my mouth version, 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:13.960 because that's pretty and clear. 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:15.640 All right, we'll look into it in the edit. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.920 It's funny our old pal friend of the show, Paula Tompkins, 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:24.520 every time the word aquaalong comes up, he gets upset, 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.239 well not upset, but makes a point of why did 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.639 Jethro Tol put that one line in there? It snot 0:18:29.640 --> 0:18:32.920 as running down as notes. That line really bugs him, 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:34.960 does it? Yeah, it's pretty funny. 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:37.639 I've not heard that one. Yeah, anytime I think of 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.639 Paula F. Tompkins, I think Kik Cake Boss. 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:45.080 It's good stuff. Yeah. 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:48.479 So they didn't call it scuba yet, Custa didn't. They 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:55.679 call it the aqua Loong like you said, right, And 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:57.920 but it was the same thing. It was what you 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.119 if you go and take up this of scuba now, 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:06.399 it's essentially what you're doing, like what Cousteau was using. 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:08.560 And the reason it caught on is because he made 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.360 a movie called The Silent World that was released in 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:15.439 what fifty six, nineteen fifty six, and it was an oscar. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:18.040 It was an amazing documentary and I was watching Hi, 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.960 I'm like, Wow, there's some amazing wreck diving scenes in there, 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.920 but it's also hilarious. One guy like pulls the door 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.640 off of the hinges of a shipwreck to get into 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.560 the shipwreck. They're just totally like vandalizing this ship. 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:30.439 Yeah. 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.439 But I was also at the same time thinking, like 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.439 all that audiences have never seen something like this. 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:38.360 That's it. That was the ticket with Silent World, that 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.160 was there had not been a lot of underwater photography 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:46.440 and it blew mines in nineteen fifty six. Not only 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.760 did it when the Oscar it was the first Golden 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.960 Palm winner, it can for a documentary. Yeah, and stayed 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:57.200 that way until Michael Moore won for Fahrenheit nine to eleven. 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:01.919 Oh wow, and it grossed in today thirty three million bucks. 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:05.920 Oh not bab as a documentary. That's a theatrical doc 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:09.280 that's really really good money for sure. And also just 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.439 to finish up on going on. Sure, he was not 0:20:12.520 --> 0:20:15.520 happy with that first version, so in fifty eight he 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:19.919 finally released what was called the Aqua Master Regulator and 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:23.760 sold a million of those up until like nineteen seventy two. 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:26.479 That was like the go to regulator, gotcha. 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:30.760 So yeah, these guys essentially created the recreational version of scuba, 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:34.280 introduced it to the world through The Silent World, and 0:20:35.240 --> 0:20:38.280 sat back and took kudos from that point on. And 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:41.159 if you watch The Silent World, it bears a strong 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:44.640 resemblance to The Life Aquatic with Steve Zizu. 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:46.199 No mistake. 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.359 And one other thing about Jacques Cousteau, I didn't realize 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:52.159 he worked for the French Resistance as a matter of 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:53.560 fact during World War Two. 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:55.959 Well, Dave, we're gonna have to do one on him 0:20:55.960 --> 0:20:58.720 because Dave sent us this material. It was like, please please, please, 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:01.439 let me do one on Jacks and we went. Now. 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:06.399 Speaking of Dave, also Chuck. You know he has his podcast, 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:08.000 Bible Time Machine. 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:12.040 Yeah, it's about Bible stuff, but you don't have to 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:14.920 like you know, it's from like a historical perspective. 0:21:15.040 --> 0:21:16.159 It's highly accessible. 0:21:16.640 --> 0:21:18.399 Yeah, that's what I'm trying to say. I know. 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:24.200