stackyFACTSTo survive underwater, humanity's brightest minds simply trapped air in a giant wooden bucket. Seventeenth-century diving bells were essentially massive timber domes weighted down with lead, providing a terrifyingly cramped pocket of air that slowly became toxic as the divers stubbornly breathed it.
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