Trapped Underwater and Running Out of Air

Published: Aug. 5, 2020, 7:40 p.m.

b'If you were to try to come up with the most outlandish survival story imaginable, you\\u2019d be hard pressed to do much better than the tale of Michael Proudfoot, a scuba diver who found himself trapped alone in a shipwreck deep under the sea and running out of air. It\\u2019s the ultimate nightmare scenario for a diver, and yet somehow Proudfoot managed to live through it. Or maybe not. Maybe none of it ever happened. This week on the Outside Podcast, we revisit a classic episode from our archives that had us take our own deep dive into a legend that seems too astonishing to be true\\u2014but just might be.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThis episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to you by Hydro Flask, maker of the new Trail Series bottle, which lets\\xa0you go farther with less weight. Learn more about it and purchase yours at hydroflask.com/trailseries'