Science of Survival: In Too Deep

Published: June 28, 2016, 8:57 p.m.

It could be one of the most incredible, yet perplexing, survival stories of all time: In 1991, a man named Michael\xa0Proudfoot\xa0was supposedly SCUBA diving on a shipwreck off the coast of Baja, Mexico, when his regulator\u2014or mouthpiece\u2014broke. He was alone, deep underwater inside a sunken ship, with only minutes to survive before he would run out of air. The string of bizarre events that take place next seem unreal.