JimH wrote:
"Reggie Smithers" wrote in message
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JimH,
What is your Jeopardy post?


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A modified mine sweeper used for oceanographic research starting in 1950 by
an extraordinary man born in France in 1910.



It was answered by Skipper 4 minutes after you posted the "answer".

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born on June 11, 1910, in
Saint-André-de-Cubzac (Gironde) in France. He entered the naval academy
in 1930, was graduated and became a gunnery officer. Then, while he was
training to be a pilot, a serious car accident ended his aviation
career. So it was the ocean that would win this adventurer's soul. In
1936, near the port of Toulon, he went swimming underwater with goggles.
It was a breath-taking revelation.

Seeking a way to explore underwater longer and more freely, he
developed, with engineer Emile Gagnan, the Self-Contained Underwater
Breathing Apparatus, or scuba, in 1943, and the world under the sea was
opened up to human beings. After World War II, Cousteau, along with
naval officer Philippe Tailliez and diver Frédéric Dumas, became known
as the " mousquemers " (" musketeers of the sea ") as they carried out
diving experiments in the sea and laboratory. In 1950, Calypso, a former
mine-sweeper, was modified into an oceanographic vessel, endowed with
instruments for diving and scientific research, and the great adventure
began. She and her crews explored the seas and rivers of the world for
the next four decades

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