Family feud leaves Cousteau’s ship high and dry, his scuba diving legacy all at sea December 28, 2005
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In a News story by Adam Sage, of the Times Online, A legal dispute is preventing the repairs necessary to make the explorer�s floating world seaworthy.
Calypso, Cousteau’s famous research and scuba diving ship, has decayed beyond repair due to a feud between his wife and son as to the ownership of the vessel. It is now said that the ship will need fully rebuilding before ever going to sea again.
Both the wife and son run rival organisations which claim to carry on Cousteau’s work, L’Equipe Cousteau, run by his wife, and Les Campagnes Oceanographiques Francais, run by his son. Each claims to own the boat and have differing plans for it and neither can pursue these plans until a court case is settled establishing ownership of the Calypso.
The Calypso, made famous by Cousteau’s scuba diving documentarys, was damaged in Singapore harbour in 1996, a year before Cousteau�s death at the age of 87. She was brought back to La Rochelle and has not sailed since.
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