Fabien Cousteau, who's an oceanographer (someone who studies the oceans). He's the grandson of Jacques Cousteau (a Frenchman who held the previous record of 30 days underwater). Fabien said he wanted to break his grandfather's record to raise awareness of ocean conservation (protecting and looking after the ocean).
That laboratory was called Aquarius. It is very
unique in that it's the only undersea marine laboratory. It gave us a unique
platform from which to live and explore this final frontier on our planet. It
was apparently 18 metres under the sea in Florida and being there allowed them
to spend less time diving and more time observing marine life. Marine means 'of
the sea', so marine life means sea life, plants and animals that live in the
sea. They were particularly interested in investigating the effects of
pollution on coral.
To live underwater, Fabien struggled with a food.
Unfortunately, as a French person, the food will also be simulated such as freeze-dried,
astronaut type of food, canned, so it's a horror show for me. He wasn't impressed
by the freeze-dried food (food that is quickly frozen and dried) to preserve
it. He thought it was astronaut style food (the sort of food you would eat as
an astronaut).
They came back to dry land they had to spend 16
hours decompressing. That's very important. Divers have to decompress to return
to their original body pressure when they come out of the water.
In the real life (No scientific equipment ), The
world record for holding the breath underwater reported that two different men
have managed this feat. They were Stig Severinsen from Denmark and Tom Sietas
from Germany. Tom apparently holding his breath for 22 minutes 22 seconds. They're
professionals, so we won’t be able to do it.
Comment
- I think their pronunciation used British accent, it could be known when they said ‘r” at the end of the word. It was silent such as water, for, or pressure.
- Most of their grammatical tenses were past tense because they were talking about something happened in the past. However, some used present tense because it was a general explanation, so we still used present tense.
- Sometimes I found difficulties to listen Fabien’s words because he talked too fast. It was different from 2 hosts of BBC, they speak it more slowly.
- It was some difficulties too when they talked about scientific things. I should repeat the audio many times because I never know the vocabularies before.
- Something was missing from the last paragraph, they said there were two different men have managed the feat, but only Tom whom explained. How is about Stig Severinsen?
It is the summary of "Underwater Living" (one of the text at BBC English Learning)
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