Also since I fully missed the cast voiced the radio announcers until the credits and went back, here's the opening credits stuff. As mentioned, I was able to pin this to 1962, but there's a few inferences to be made!
Travis is the first radio announcer and talks about the maiden voyage of the SS France (February 1962).
Sam is the second and mentions the World's Fair; no further details given so it's hard to provide any time, but as all the other references are from 1962 (and the video of Admiral Anders is dated April 13th, 1952, and said to be a decade old) we can assume this is the 1962 World's Fair held in Seattle from April to October of 1962. Fun fact - this is when the Space Needle was built!
Travis is also the third and mentions Love Me Do by the Beatles charting. It was released October 5th, 1962.
Marisha is the fourth and mentions General Dynamics launching Ranger 3 to explore the ocean's surface. This is interesting, because Ranger 3 was a space probe and at least based on a quick search - I think this is meant to indicate that this is a divergent history in which, perhaps, rather than focusing on space, the US focused on oceanic exploration. The timing is roughly the same though - Ranger 3 was launched in January 1962.
Sam is the fifth and mentions Jacques Cousteau's Conshelf 1 experiments, which were real oceanographic experiments performed, and Conshelf 1 was indeed in 1962, off the coast of France.
Marisha is the sixth and mentions the Cuban Missile Crisis, which was also in October 1962 between the US and USSR (indicating that even if this is a divergent history, the main difference appears to be ocean race vs. space race, and also, you know, underwater monsters.)
Sam is the seventh and mentions Operation Fishbowl Nuclear tests, which were carried out in summer 1962. They were high-altitude tests carried out over the ocean.
Marisha is the eighth and mentions strange sea creatures near Sydney Harbor. A quick search indicates there was a ferry crash in Sydney Harbor in 1962 but I couldn't find anything else; likely another indication of the divergent/supernatural elements.
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