For the next three years, she ferried tourists and locals between Malta and the island of Gozo. In , Calypso was purchased by an Irish millionaire named Thomas Guinness, who in turn leased it to Jacques Cousteau for the symbolic fee of one franc a year. Guinness wanted to see the boat used for oceanographic research and conservation. And as a condition of the deal, he asked that Cousteau never reveal his identity. It wasn't until after Cousteau's death in that Guinness's name came out.
While the boat that became Calypso had been sweeping for mines during the war, lifelong ocean lover and former French navy man Jacques-Yves Cousteau was forging his career as the century's most renowned mariner.
The same year, he shot another movie, Shipwrecks , in which he helped design and test the first Aqua-Lung, the prototype of the SCUBA tank self-contained underwater breathing apparatus that became the standard for all deep sea divers. For the duration of WWII, he worked with the French Navy both as an undercover agent assembling commando missions against the Axis forces and helping to rescue sunken vessels.
In , after leasing the Calypso from Guinness, Cousteau refitted the boat as a mobile laboratory and it became the home for his deep sea adventures over the next thirty years. While he captured the imagination of millions with his books, short films, an Academy award-winning documentary and a classic TV series which aired from to , Cousteau's achievements ran even deeper.
Calypso was the name of Cousteau's research boat that sailed around the world for ocean conservation. Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. After traveling and living in numerous locations while growing up in his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late s.
His greatest commercial success was as a solo singer. Throughout his life, Denver recorded and released approximately songs, about of which he composed. He performed primarily with an acoustic guitar and sang about his joy in nature, his enthusiasm for music, and relationship trials. Denver's music appeared on a variety of charts, including country and western, the Billboard Hot , and adult contemporary, in all earning him 1… more ». We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
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