The 1958, 1963 and 1973 US Navy Dive Tables are all as Nemrod says, 50 feet for 100 minutes.
You know, I don't recall any episodes of Sea Hunt with Mike Nelson holding an anchor line, decompressing.
Cousteau discussed decompression in his first international film, The Silent World. One of the early segments shows one of the Cousteau divers being "hit" with decompression sickness (pains in his elbow) after diving deep for lobster, getting narced, and heading for the surface without doing any stops. Falco was his diving partner, and he was not able to stop this diver's ascent. So they put him into the deck decompression chamber, and went off and ate his lobsters! It was a funny way to make the point of sticking to decompression schedules. Just before this segment, Cousteau discussed sponge divers in hard hat gear who were crippled by decompression sickness.
All in all, Cousteau presented a better picture of diving than did Sea Hunt. I started diving because of Cousteau, and the showing of The Silent World, but enjoyed Sea Hunt too. Even then, we knew it was Hollywood, and that much of what we saw on Sea Hunt was not realistic.
When I got into the service, and went through the U.S. Navy School for Underwater Swimmers in 1967, one of the worst things the Navy instructors would say about trainee divers is that they were acting like Mike Nelson on Sea Hunt. People who did that were guaranteed at least 25 pushups, and maybe if they separated from their buddy, would get the dreaded "buddy line" (a special 6" diameter rope about 10 feet long to carry for the next 24 hours).
SeaRat
You know, I don't recall any episodes of Sea Hunt with Mike Nelson holding an anchor line, decompressing.
Cousteau discussed decompression in his first international film, The Silent World. One of the early segments shows one of the Cousteau divers being "hit" with decompression sickness (pains in his elbow) after diving deep for lobster, getting narced, and heading for the surface without doing any stops. Falco was his diving partner, and he was not able to stop this diver's ascent. So they put him into the deck decompression chamber, and went off and ate his lobsters! It was a funny way to make the point of sticking to decompression schedules. Just before this segment, Cousteau discussed sponge divers in hard hat gear who were crippled by decompression sickness.
All in all, Cousteau presented a better picture of diving than did Sea Hunt. I started diving because of Cousteau, and the showing of The Silent World, but enjoyed Sea Hunt too. Even then, we knew it was Hollywood, and that much of what we saw on Sea Hunt was not realistic.
When I got into the service, and went through the U.S. Navy School for Underwater Swimmers in 1967, one of the worst things the Navy instructors would say about trainee divers is that they were acting like Mike Nelson on Sea Hunt. People who did that were guaranteed at least 25 pushups, and maybe if they separated from their buddy, would get the dreaded "buddy line" (a special 6" diameter rope about 10 feet long to carry for the next 24 hours).
SeaRat
He used to do that forward dive off his boat, landing on his double 38s after tucking his head and holding his mask, landing on the back of his shoulders. That's okay off a boat in deep water (perhaps--if you're good and don't worry about the consequences), but in our rivers this would be a bit hazardous. 
