This episode of the TV show, Discovery ‘66, dates to the year 1966. Discovery (in several incarnations) was an innovative historical, cultural and educational documentary TV series for children that aired from 1962-1971 on ABC. It was originally hosted by Frank Buxton on aired on weekdays, but for most of the Sixties it could be found on Saturday afternoons or Sunday mornings. This episode “The World Beneath the Sea” opens with a diver in full scuba gear underwater. A submersible follows. The World Beneath the Sea, Part II. Animated introduction :46. Discovery ’66 with Bill Owen. Host Bill Owen (who succeeded Buxton in 1966) feeds some porpoises and then watches them perform stunts 1:35. The Navy trains porpoises to deliver messages 1:45. An animation shows how sonar works and measures distance from ship to ocean floor 2:30. Porpoises use sonar. Bill Owen stands beside a man in scuba gear, making a dive 2:50. Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci’s submersibles 3:05. A man in a hard hat diving helmet is shown 3:10. A diver is connected to his air by a hose connected to the ship 3:30. Jacques-Yves Cousteau invented the first underwater breathing apparatus 3:46. SCUBA for Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus. A diver breathes from a respirator 4:00. Divers stand on the shore and get ready to dive 4:23. Tropical fish 4:36. Divers wearing special equipment and using ropes dive to great depths 5:06. Scuba divers examine and feed the tropical fish 5:22. Scuba divers swim through the water with their gear 5:48. Bill Owen takes us underwater and shows SeaLab II 6:15. The famous explorer Jacques Cousteau 6:28. In 1962 Cousteau designed Conshelf I, — continental shelf station — a cabin with compressed air where two divers lived together for 69 hours. In 1962, Conshelf I was set up off Marseilles at ten meters depth. Two men, Albert Falco and Claude Wesly, were the first “oceanauts” to live underwater for a week. Christened Diogenes, this strange steel cylinder, 5 meters long and 2.5 meters in diameter, served as home and laboratory for its two inhabitants. Conshelf II followed in 1963. Cousteau’s diving saucer, 7:22. SeaLab was lowered in 1964, 193 feet to the ocean floor 7:40. Four Navy divers use the shelter as a home for 11 days 7:44. The term “aquanauts” was thus coined 8:00. A portable decompression chamber 8:10. Divers can enter SeaLab without water entering the capsule due to compressed air 8:40. Divers swim amongst the fish photographing and exploring the abyss 8:50. The divers prepare food in SeaLab 9:03. Matches will not light underwater at severe pressures 9:09. Voices to the surface are severely distorted 9:13. SeaLab is brought up from the bottom 9:30. The men decompress in the chamber for 31 hours 9:42. Sea Lab II is submerged off the coast of La Jolla, California 10:02. Former astronaut, Cmdr. Scott Carpenter leads the diving teams 10:16. Scientists observe marine life from SeaLab 10:40. “Tuffy” the porpoise helps the divers 10:46. Mail is delivered to Sea Lab II 11:07. The PC3A and PC3B series of “cubmarines” were next. Designed by John H. Perry Jr. 12:00. Mr. Perry demonstrates mechanics of the sub 12:20. Mechanical arm on sub is demonstrated 13:13. The cubmarine submerges 13:30. The PC3B skims the sea 14:00. A scale model of the Alvin 14:24. The navy’s “Deep Jeep” is featured and is extremely easy to maneuver 14:57. CURV – cable controlled underwater research vehicle, is controlled by cable from the surface ship 15:35. CURV can travel to depths of 2,000 feet 16:00. Cousteau’s diving saucer is submerged, propelled by water jets 16:34. Red sea fans and yellow polyps 17:08. Crabs, shrimp and turtles cover the ocean floor 17:23. Undersea rivers and mountains 17:35. The saucer is hauled out of the sea 17:54. A tandem propeller model sub is being tested 18:22. Futuristic sub models are in production 18:45. An imagined underwater city is shown. 19:30. Bill Owen closes, promoting “Men Under Water”, edited by James Dugan and Richard Vahan and “Science Beneath the Sea” by William H. Stephens. 20:40. Discovery ’66. Executive producer, Jules Power.

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