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Ben Hellwarth

Apr 23, 2026

speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
7:12
Congratulations.
7:13
The first aquanauts enter the Sealab.
7:16
That's kind of a huge deal.
7:18
At this point in diving history, rarely would anyone stay at a substantial depth for more than half an hour.
7:24
And then Bond came up with this concept of saturation diving, which was basically if we allow a diver to stay at a depth or a pressure long enough, at a certain point, it wouldn't matter if he stayed down an hour or a week or a month.
7:39
The process of decompression's gonna be the same.
7:42
But that was a pretty far-out notion.
George BondSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
9:51
To commence about six hours of intense physiological investigation.

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