Jacques Cousteau, turning science fiction into reality
Two years before the first spacewalk Jacques Cousteau was placing in the Red Sea an underwater city where 10 oceanauts would live for a month
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The sinking of the Principe de Asturias: a Titanic you can dive in
The early twentieth century marked the golden age of ocean liners with the launching in 1906 of the RMS Lusitania. We were entering in a second industrial revolution that allowed technical breakthroughs in transport and marked the birth of big business empires in both sides of the Atlantic. The need for cheap labor (or slaves directly) …
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Pioneers of modern diving: Jacques Mayol
Jacques Mayol became the first athlete overcoming the 100-meter deep barrier by lung diving, a feat that led film director Luc Besson to rely on his figure for the making of the film «Le Grand Bleu».