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Cousteau
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Cousteau's popularity was increasing. In October 1960, a large amount of radioactive waste was going to be discarded in the sea by EURATOM. Cousteau organized a publicity campaign which gained wide popular support. The train carrying the waste was stopped by women and children sitting on the railway, and it was sent back to its origin. The risk was avoided. During this, a French government man had said falsely to a newspaper that Cousteau had approved the dump; Cousteau managed to get the newspaper to issue a correction.
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At 85, Cousteau is trim, very alert and smiles constantly, seeing the world in a spirit of amused forebearance. He's enormous fun to be around. If Cousteau is thinking at all of retiring, it's going to have to wait until he's finished the many projects, travels and films he has planned for at least the next five years. And now he's got a new project: replacing Calypso, the former minesweeper that's been carrying him around the world since 1950. Calypso sank in Singapore Harbor in January after being accidently hit by a barge. Calypso II, which uses both conventional diesel power and a revolutionary "Turbosail," should be seaworthy in a year.
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Cousteau returned in July 2002 with the luxurious, no less ambitious Sirena and geared up for more touring. Davey Ray Moor surprised the group at the end of its American tour in Boston by declaring his intentions to pursue his own work. After meeting with the remaining members, Liam McKahey, despite being a songwriting novice, took it upon himself to fill the compositional hole left by longtime bandleader Moor, and the group, now joined by keyboard player Dan Moore, returned to the studio to record its third full-length album, Nova Scotia, for Endeavor Records. The record was released in the U.K. in 2005, but a myriad of legal technicalities prevented the group from retaining its longtime moniker. In 2006, Nova Scotia, by the newly minted Moreau, arrived nationally on Ten Little Indian Records. ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide
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Is it merely invoking name "Cousteau" that subliminally gives their sweeping, reverb-drenched harmonies and loose, phasing guitars a sugary-sweet underwater feel? Or did Davey Ray Moor, the band's multi-instrumentalist leader, instinctively know that his songs and arrangements could summon from the depths of the sea the spirit of the world's late, great aquatic adventurer? Whether the name or the sound came first, Cousteau's songs are most evocative and convincing in their sorrow and distress. When the quintet's self-titled debut was released late last year in Britain, the press did enough swooning to carry the album across the waters. Now, for the band's first American tour, they've got both loyalist indie rockers and made-for-21st century rat-packers in tow and in harmony. While singer Liam McKahey's voice draws endless comparisons from Nick Cave to Scott Walker to Roy Orbison, none pin down an exact match.
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Like Francine Cousteau, Jaubert is aware that the solution lies as much with encouraging correct commercial development as with regulation. He holds one of the main global patents on natural self-filtration techniques in aquariums and understands that making coral reefs work for a living enhances their chances of survival. He virtually discovered the method for re-creating defunct reefs. Recently, a Red Sea resort in Jordan asked him to grow reefs off its beaches where none existed. Jaubert believes it can be done within five years; indeed, that it can be done anywhere.
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In school Cousteau was bored and often misbehaved. He was even expelled at one time. In 1930 Cousteau entered France's naval academy, the Ecole Navale, in Brest. He graduated three years later and then entered the French navy. In 1936 he was given a pair of underwater goggles, the kind used by divers. Cousteau was so impressed with what he saw beneath the sea that he immediately set about designing a device that would allow humans to breath underwater.
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