Modern Marvels

Season 6, Episode 27

Episode Title: Scuba And Deep Sea Diving

Air Date: 1999-07-12

Overview:

In antiquity, a hollow reed served as an underwater link to oxygen. As in days of old, humans still need self-contained breathing equipment for a variety of reasons–food-gathering, commercial, recreational, military, and scientific. Dive with the best as we test scuba diving’s past, and look to a future of mechanical gills.