A year later Cousteau planted a more deluxe five-room model—with living room, shower, and sleeping quarters—on the seafloor off the coast of Sudan. Footage from the expedition, later featured in Cousteau’s Oscar-winning documentary A World Without Sun, shows a kind of futuristic/French paradise where by day, aquanauts spent their time floating through Technicolor sea gardens, and by night, they smoked, drank wine, ate perfectly prepared French meals, and watched television. The aquanauts lasted a month. Their only complaint was the lack of women down there to “keep us company.”*
