Jacques Cousteau's ship Calypso is to be relaunched

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Tue Jun-08-10 12:50 PM
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Jacques Cousteau's ship Calypso is to be relaunched

To mark the centennial of marine explorer Jacques Cousteau's birth, the society established in his name will relaunch his ship, the Calypso.

The vessel was badly damaged in 1996, when a barge accidentally rammed into it in the port of Singapore.

It is now being repaired and the Cousteau Society says it will become a "touring educational exhibition".

The ship, originally a British minesweeper, was adapted into a "mobile oceanography laboratory" in 1950.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10264797.stm

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Tue Jun-08-10 01:27 PM
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1. The first time I saw this thing, in Norfolk, VA - that's why Cousteau put his headquarters there -

for a while, because Norfolk had THE best shipyard for wooden ships on the East coast.

Calypso was a tiny, floating wreck. I was shocked.

The Wild Goose, John Wayne's private yacht, is a sister ship. USN WWII minesweepers.

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&q=yacht+wild+goose&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

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