The Cousteau Odyssey Time Bomb at Fifty Fathoms (1977– ) watch online HD

This is a highly unusual episode of "The Cousteau Odyssey" because it's not about fishes or mammals and you really don't see much of this in the show. Instead, it's about a ship filled with lead for gasoline that sunk off the Italian coast and the efforts to retrieve these barrels soon because they were like ticking time bombs...releasing this ultra-poisonous substance into the water. Because it's so dangerous, the workers had to use decontamination procedures and the work involved saturation diving--living underwater for very, very long periods and using a heliox mixture. This is NOT simple diving but it very dangerous and the film also shows footage of the Cousteau crew back in the early 1960s and they perfected these sorts of dives.

The show is mostly of interest to scuba divers and environmentalists. I cannot see the average person enjoying it as much because there are not cute animals or fish--just important work. Well done and interesting to me, at least!