The High Pressure Experiments That Made D-Day

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I'm David B. and Cooley. Veterans Day has us thinking about our interview from last year about some brave and obsessive scientists. Before and during World War II, they did underwater research which was essential to the success of D Day, when Allies had to conduct surveillance, searching for traps in mines underwater and on the shore before storming the beach at Normandy. We're going to listen back to Terry's interview from last year with Rachel Lance.

She wrote the book titled Chamber divers, the untold story of the D-Day scientists who changed special operations forces forever. She's a biomedical engineer and blast injuries specialist. Some of her research revolves around the questions, how can the human body survive the extremes of the deep sea? And how do blasts and bombs underwater affect the body compared to the impact of blasts on land? For several years, Rachel Lance was an engineer for the U.S.

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