City of the Dead
Description
Sam Elstead and Star Norton go deep underwater in a round diving machine and find a living coelacanth fish. They also see strange sea creatures that look part human. When their air starts running out, they get saved from the deep ocean. Dr. Weybridge studies the coelacanth and discovers it has both fish and human features. This exciting underwater story comes from the real scientific work of Dr. William Beebe.
Sam Elstead and Starr Norton, among history's first marine biologists, volunteer to dive four miles beneath the sea's surface in a eight-foot-in-diameter globe for a look at the Cayman Trough. Much of what they see and encounter are remarkably similar to those experienced in February of 1976 by three men who dove into the trough in a craft called Alvin.
A tense underwater adventure, based on the scientific findings of Dr. William Beebe. Sam Elstead and Star Norton, in a deep-sea globe, discover a living coelacanth, and later, strange humanoid sea creatures. They are rescued from an abyss after their oxygen supply runs low. Dr. Weybridge's analysis of the coelacanth shows its fish-human characteristics.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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