Welcome back to the show.

Fellow Ridiculous Historians, we are returning with another classic episode for you.

Just quick peek behind the curtain.

My pal, Noel and I made it back from the high seas while our super producer Max was

holding down the fort like a hero, like a war hero of podcasting. And we are still kind of recovering

schedule-wise. A couple of us caught some travel crud. So while we're resting up and working

on new episodes, ridiculous history, we wanted to share a maritime classic episode that, Max, I believe you were

around for this one, right? 2019?

No, I didn't come around until 2021.

We still got a while to Max shows up.

Wow.

Wow, we've been at this for a while, my friend.

All right.

So here's the pitch, folks. Travel back with us

toward the end of World War II. Germany is absolutely wrecking stuff with their submarine technology,

and one of their submarines is acknowledged to be by far the most advanced, deadliest predator on the seas.

However, the same technological breakthroughs that made these subs so effective also, in

at least one case, led to their demise.

And this reminds us of our conversation with the world's premier underwater explosion expert,

Dr. Rachel Big Spinich Lance.

Remember when she told us that, remember when she told us that people figured out how to make

submarines work way before they figured out how people could enter or exit submarines safely?

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