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Experience of life under water Divers': Glaucus

September 6, 2015 Last Updated at 10:22 BST

In 1965, two experienced divers living underwater in the bottom of the bay of Plymouth on the southwest coast of England.

Inspired by the underwater adventures of Jacques Cousteau, Colin Irwin and John Heath create an underwater habitat, where she lived for seven days in a metal cylinder called Glauco.

In September 1965 the submarine "at home" sank demonstrate to the bay of Plymouth with the two Aquanauts that "pod" could obtain human life beneath the waves.

The divers returned to the area after seven days under the sea in perfect health. His house underwater was a success.

Fifty years later, the BBC Inside Out was fulfilled one of the divers, as Colin Irwin ventured beneath the waves of the Plymouth Sound, again to join the rest of Glauco.

Credits: archival footage is courtesy and copyright of British Pathé.

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