When Roger Mallinson glimpsed a human face, framed by ‘flaming blond hair’, through the porthole of his mini-submarine, his first delirious thought was, ‘Is that a mermaid?’A split-second later, he understood. The face belonged to a diver, bringing a slim hope that he and his co-pilot Roger Chapman might be rescued.But as their tiny capsule rocked and lurched helplessly, hundreds of feet below the surface of the Atlantic, Mallinson realised it was proving impossible for the diver to fix a cable to haul them up. Another rescue attempt had failed. And their air supply was almost exhausted.
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