Deep Dive Mystery: Hit by the Bends

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Blue Lake holds a mystery deep beneath its surface. And Martin Robson wants to solve it. The British diver descends into the murky depths. But hundreds of feet underwater, an invisible and excruciating force suddenly overwhelms him. Semi-paralysed and sinking, Martin is only at the start of an extraordinary ordeal - one that will ultimately last not for hours, but days… A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins. Written by Luke Lonergan | Produced by Ed Baranski | Assistant Producer: Luke Lonergan | Script edit by Joe Viner | Exec produced by Joel Duddell | Sound supervisor: Tom Pink | Sound design & audio editing by Jacob Booth, Liam Cameron, Matt Peaty | Assembly editing by Rob Plummer | Compositions by Oliver Baines, Dorry Macaulay, Tom Pink | Mix & mastering: Ralph Tittley. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started. Or go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:34.1	the 13th 2012 somewhere deep within Russia's North Caucasus mountain range.
0:40.3	Nestled in a wooded glade, a light fog drifts above Blue Lake.
0:46.3	At just 240 by 140 meters, Blue Lake is small and unremarkable,
0:53.3	an opaque turquoise pool surrounded by snow-covered
0:57.2	foothills. But beneath the surface lies a mystery. Every day, 70 million liters flow out of this
1:09.1	body of water, feeding nearby rivers and streams.
1:12.6	But the lake never changes volume.
1:16.6	That means the same daily volume of water must flow into the lake.
1:22.6	But nobody knows where from.
1:25.6	160 meters below the surface, British diver Martin Robson
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