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Finally found a way to upload a picture here. Yeah the 16 year old on the right is me. Leaky dry suit. With mushroom anchor some boater threw overboard in 12 feet of water with 6 feet of rope on it. This is about 1960 or 1961 vintage.

I spent hours watching the old video/s on You Tube. I had no idea the Silent World was there. After further research I fouind out about the re-fit of the Calypso and it's later destruction. If I was Jacques I's sure have a new boat built rather than re-building a wooden hull mine sweeper. (I...

I found my old picture: "There was a problem uploading your picture." Guess I don't have enough seniority here to load pictures. Maybe the commanding officer will let me u/l one?

GJC- THANKS-to you...... I just watched the movie (Silent World) I was looking for on You-Tube. I have an HDMI to AV converter and I'm gonna' see if I can't cut a DVD of the movie. Jacques wouldn't mind. There was another oldie in which I remember a party of about 5-6 divers under the stern...

Thank you! I'm headin' there now

Yoe, ABNfrog, I can copy tapes and my machine will put a tape on a dvd. I'd like to borrow "The Silent World" if you have it on tape.

Thank you for the welcome. One of you has suggested where to go to find some of my sought for Cousteau movies. I found the names of the films, but.......................... I was very disappointed at and frustrated by the secrecy shown by the Cousteau Society in their resistance to releasing...

Thank You Marie, but at 76 I'm too old and suffering from bronchitus, besides I never learned to do more than dog paddle. With flippers you don't need to swim well. With my flippers, I could do about 7 mph under water! After 4 years in the navy I am convinced I will die by drowning so no more...

I'm 76 years old. Back in 1963 my folks bought my first lung, a Healthways Scubair 2 hose single stage regulator. Before long I had wet suit and all the other goodies I needed. I wanted to dive because I had watched all the Cousteau movies and read all his books and all the others I could get...