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A Journey Into The Life Of The Great Ocean Explorer, Jacques Costeau

in the world without sun. Nevertheless, these experiments gave rise to the training astronauts undergo today before leaving for a world of billions of suns: Space. Here, too, Cousteau was a precursor. (Cousteau Society)

 

Living Underwater
Starting in the 1960s, Cousteau set up “oceanauts” where people could live underwater for short periods of time. The project was to prove that humans could live underwater for extended periods. In 1965, the so-called Conshelf III off the Nice coast was established one hundred meters below the surface. The building housed six oceanauts who lived together for three weeks. (CBS News)

 

Calypso Originally built for the British Royal Navy as a minesweeper, the Calypso was leased to Cousteau for a symbolic one franc a year from the Irish millionaire Thomas Loel Guinness. The ship was accidentally rammed by a barge in Singapore on January 8, 1996, and sank in the port. It was later raised, towed to France and is now being restored. (The Telegraph)

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