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On 24 Nov 95 at 9:07, A.Appleyard wrote:
> Marc Dufour <emdx@ac*.ne*> replied
> > My! It was Commandant Yves Leprieur who taught Cousteau how to dive, of
> > course!
>
> Le Prieur invented a constant-flow air scuba in the 1930's and started a scuba
> diving club using it; but I haven't heard of Cousteau being in that club, from
Oh, Cousteau tried it sure enough. By being in the Marine
Nationale, it was impossible that he wasn't exposed to the official
light SCUBA system used by it.
However, being the prima donna he is, it is not very likely that he
would acknowledge trying it.
> what I read in Cousteau's book `The Silent World'. Later when the French fleet
> were in Toulon during the 1939-1945 war, when Cousteau needed scuba, he didn't
> have access to Le Prieur sets, had two oxygen convulsions trying rebreathers,
After the war, he introduced himself to other combat swimmers as
"Jacques Cousteau, two convulsions!"...
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