Sep 15, 2019 · This is a better page from the Society's website: Fire on Cousteau’s Calypso. "Update 12th June 2019. Calypso is safe in her shipyard in Turkey. Once the insurances have settled the damage we will resume the reconstruction. In the meantime she is safely guarded."

May 22, 2018 · Everyone loves Jacques Cousteau (mostly). Many people got their start in scuba diving after seeing Jacques Cousteau going on scuba adventure after scuba adventure, always with his iconic boat, the RV Calypso. OR ME: RV Calypso While the Calypso languishes, rotting away, victim to family in-fighting, debtors claims, and not a small amount of ...

Sep 15, 2019 · See Calypso - Wikipedia for other ships and similar named Calypso, including two submarines. As regards the origin of the name, the Greek word root "kalub-" means "to hide", and a nymph named Calypso (see Calypso (mythology) - Wikipedia) detained Odysseus on her island for 7 years. And submarines are intended to go hidden underwater.

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Sep 15, 2019 · The steel observation bulb from the bow, the bridge superstructure, the engines, etc were warehoused and the hull went to get repaired. All the pix in the "heart of Calypso" links above are dated 2016; "In the late afternoon of October third, Calypso the workers began placing Calypso on a travel lift, this task was finished at around midnight ...

Sep 18, 2019 · It happens. It is sad to see anything or anyone beloved, getting old and feeble. I have seen my mother deteriorate from where she regularly walked to Altrincham shops through the back lanes for the exercise, to being able only to reach Mrs.Jones across the road, to being housebound, to being...

Sep 15, 2019 · When Cousteau first started out with Calypso underwater footage on TV was virtually non-existent and in the sixties and seventies it was something that you had to watch out for, now any day of the week underwater action on TV is very commonplace.

Sep 3, 2016 · He was one of the longest-serving diving companions of Jacques Cousteau, Chief Diver, and later Captain of the RV Calypso. He lived in France and was active in preserving aquatic ecosystems. He played several leading roles on Cousteau's films, like The Silent World (1956), World Without Sun (1964) and Voyage to the Edge of the World (1976).

Apr 3, 2014 · Here is a blog I think you will find interesting on regulator first stages. I was surprised that the current Calypso is an unbalanced piston, as the Calypso used to be the top-of-the-line regulator for U.S. Divers Company (before they became Aqualung), and used to be a flow-through piston design that I really like. Anyway, here's the blog:

Feb 24, 2003 · I've just picked up a Calypso III and Calypso IV for my collection (they seem to be an overlooked item with all the emphasis on double hose regs). The Calypso III is new old stock, never been in the water! Can't wait for it to arrive. What other metal-bodied Calypso models were there? I've only seen the III, IV and VI mentioned anywhere.