"Reggie Smithers" wrote in message
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JimH wrote:
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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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Oops. I have him killfiled so I did not see. Sorry.