Introduction

The man who invented the underwater ejector seat once broke his tailbone in six places while testing the system on the ground rather than in the water. He was a bike called John Rawlins, he was very eminent. Anna Tashinsky: I didn't think of that as something that has been invented in fact. Andrew Huntamuri: It's for planes that have crashed and gone underwater. James Harkin: You don't need to find out about this. Dan Schreiber: No Such Thing as a Fish is our weekly podcast from Covent Garden.