Mike Nelson is a S.C.U.B.A. diver in the days when it was still very new. He works alone, and the plot was mostly carried through his voice-over narrations. These gave the show a flavor of a radio program. Typical adventures were finding a downed satellite or sunken treasure.
Cast:Lloyd Bridges , Ken Drake , Courtney Brown , Jan Harrison , William Boyett , Richard Probert , Russ Conway , Leonard Nimoy , Frank Warren , Zale Parry , John Zaremba , Ross Elliott , A.G. Vitanza , Anthony George , Lisa Gaye , Rodolfo Hoyos Jr. , Ric Marlow , Charles Maxwell
Racing against time, Mike Nelson attempts a risky rescue of a test pilot trapped in his plane's cockpit 60 feet below the ocean's surface.
Mike travels 1500 miles inland to a flooded mine where two men are trapped in a foul air pocket. He reaches them, but his dilemma is that there is only enough air in his tank to rescue the miners one-at-a-time and not enough air in the pocket for the remaining man to survive until he returns with more air. Who will go? Who will stay? How will he decide?
While testing the skills of two divers, Mike is attacked by one of them, whom is suffering from rapture of the deep.
Mike is asked to investigate when two underwater geologists disappear, one of whom washes up on the beach with marks of a struggle with a gigantic octopus.
Mike Nelson rescues an unidentified girl from drowning. The Immigration Department suspects she's an illegal alien and releases her in Mike's custody.
Although Kay Dalton is terrified of the sea, she is determined to dive for a cache of stolen diamonds.
An old flame comes back into Mike's life, and she's nothing but trouble.
Mike has been hired to test a machine dubbed "the fish-finder" on an experimental boat called The Sonar Queen, in hopes of determining why all of the fish have disappeared from the coast of a Mexican fishing village.
Mike comes to the aid of a young friend, whom has been fooled into working for a couple unsavory treasure hunters.
Mike hunts down a killer whale that has been terrorizing a local coastal community.
Mike pilots a mini-submarine in an attempt to rescue a Russian scientist defector from a ship, where he is being held by his Soviet kidnappers.
Nelson is hired to study shark behavior at various depths and the effects of a new shark repellent.In Caribbean waters and with two other divers assisting him,he is lowered in a shark "cage" to accomplish the assignment.Before it is all over Mike is reminded that human beings also pose a danger to his life.
Nelson,brought to the Latin American port of Santa Pueblo,investigates a recently found German WWII submarine.The sub,which had been on a secret mission,may contain secret documents or weapons,the remains of top Nazi Party members-or gold! "Hard hat" divers backed by the country's dictator interfere in the exploration.
An overly energetic man appears on Nelson's boat and claims to have built a machine which can find shipwrecks by calculating where the shifting of the earth's plates have moved them. After a successful test run, the objective is to find lost barges carrying gold! Oddly, Nelson is more interested in the machine itself.
Mike assists the authorities in trying to apprehend a poacher operating in the swamps of Silver Springs, Florida.
Mike has serious concerns regarding a dangerous, underwater, carnival magic act.
Mike comes to the aid of a young diver - in more ways than one.
Mike Nelson accepts a job to supervise a diving expedition for diamonds in South America, but soon rebels against his employers.
Mike Nelson goes after a vicious alligator that escapes from a wild-animal show in Silver Springs, Fla. and takes refuge in the lake in a public park.
Mike Nelson learns of a derelict mine which has drifted into a California harbor.
Mike Nelson is called in by the Florida State Police to help solve a series of underwater crimes.
Mike investigates the legend of a mermaid located in an underwater cave off the west coast of Florida.
A professor and his daughter hire Mike Nelson to help them search for a rare underwater plant in Costa Rica.
Two prospectors (one of whom is at times violently paranoid about being cheated) ask Nelson to join them in a search for uranium deposits in a river bottom. When after two futile weeks Nelson finally has a positive reading on his Geiger counter, the paranoid partner snaps and lets his suspicions get the better of him.
To fund research for an "ocean plants into food products" project, Nelson agrees to travel to Puerto Blanco/South America. There he teaches skin diving to a thrill seeking millionaire hunter and his wife. The boorish hunter wants to kill a large shark and a giant squid for his trophy case. An accident quickly matures the man.
Mike discovers a kidnapped scientist being held in an underwater prison cell.
Offshore near Santa Barbara,Nelson is testing a sea "scooter". Meanwhile,a know-it-all ex-athlete and his wife are spending the day at the beach with their two kids. The kids are carelessly allowed to explore the area and end up trapped in a cave which high-tide will engulf. Nelson and his scooter attempt to be of help.
Mike attempts to rescue a kidnapped Latin American diplomat being held with his wife at sea on his pleasure boat named Santa Rosa.
Hoodlums attack Mike after he explores the waters around a pier.
Mike tries to prove that a woman's drowning was not accidental.
Mike is hired to make a molehill out of an underwater mountain.
While underwater, a member of Mike's supervised diving party goes missing.
Mike's life is targeted for murder during his insurance investigation of a sunken ship.
Mike investigates reports of a sea monster, which is literally causing whales to leap into the air above the ocean's surface.
Mike searches for the divers who are tapping top secret telephone communications along an underwater cable.
Mike battles rough weather, sharks, bullets, and even a giant clam, as he searches for a deep-water manganese deposit, which could be invaluable to the U.S. Government.