LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Cousteau: Calypso Ii
built 195 days ago
After the war Cousteau continued diving with the French Navy and L'Air Liquide set up a Canadian operation to manufacture the regulator. La Spirotechnique in France was formed at that time to market the product. And that company today is still an affiliate of U.S. Divers, the manufacturer and supplier of Aqualung products. He remained involved in the development of diving equipment in the years that followed and helped introduce such innovations as the 80 cubic foot aluminum tank and a host of wetsuits, masks, fins and snorkels, field testing products while out filming and exploring aboard the Calypso.
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After the Allied victory in World War II, Cousteau once again concentrated on exploring the depths of the ocean. In 1950, with the financial help of a friend, Cousteau bought a minesweeper called Calypso and converted it into a research vessel. Calypso transported Cousteau, his wife Simone, and a research crew around the world to such places as Easter Island, Mexico, California, and the Antarctic Circle.
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In 1950, shortly after Cousteau's 40th birthday, Loel Guinness (who was named the president of the French Oceanographic Campaigns) bought the ex-Royal Navy minesweeper Calypso when it was doing service as a ferry between Malta and Gozo. Guinness leased it to Cousteau for a symbolic one franc a year.
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Cousteau became a capitaine de corvette in the French navy in 1948 and president of the French Oceanographic Campaigns and commander of the ship Calypso in 1950. He became director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco in 1957.
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The Calypso would faithfully serve Cousteau for 46 years, until she would sink in a boating accident in Singapore Harbor early in 1996. Calypso’s maiden voyage... in 1950 would take Cousteau to the Red Sea to study Coral Reefs.
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Extra credit: American singer John Denver paid tribute to Cousteau in his 1975 song "Calypso"... Cousteau won an Oscar as producer of the 1959 short film Histoire d'un Poisson Rouge (Story of a Red Fish).
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