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Subject: Re: We have lost the world's most famous Oceanographer

dear nini, what does this posting have to do with burma, the french in
burma, etc. i do not see the relevance, and given the fact that
environmental damage in burma is very high, what did costeau do about
it, other than use french state money to heighten environmental
awareness, which is good, and give french a good international
reputation for environmental protection, which greenpeace might find
highly questionable, especially today, when cogema is under full attack
and investigation for nuclear contamination of the Hague off the
northern french sea coast. Yes, Costeau did attack the french nuclear
industry, and he did go national here against Chirac's nuclear testing,
but burma, i dont see the direct connection.

Cogema is a ten percent investor in TOTAL and TOTAL has I believe ten
percent in Cogema and Thierry Desmarest of TOTAL is a senior advisor to
Cogema.


dawn star
EuroBurmanet, paris
nin@xxxxxx wrote:
> 
> From: "Dr. Khin Ni Ni Thein" <nin@xxxxxx>
> Subject: We have lost the world's most famous Oceanographer
> 
>         "ALWAYS SOMETHING NEW TO LEARN AND SEE"
>                                 (Jacques Cousteau)
> 
> Dear ALL,
> 
> Please excuse me if this posting is disturbing. I post it to share the
> feeling of loss. Today, the world lost one of his great scientist in
> the field of Oceanography.
> 
> What you will be reading in a moment is his technical journey being
> broadcast by CNN and then in a separate posting you will read his
> spiritual journey being broadcast by another independent source.
> 
> Forwarded by NiNi
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Famed sea explorer Jacques Cousteau dead at 87, June 25, 1997
> Wed posted at: 6:12 a.m. EDT (1012 GMT)
> 
> (CNN) For millions of people who saw the ocean only through the
> porthole of television, the voice of the sea had a soft French accent.
> On Wednesday, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the underwater pioneer who opened up
> the mysterious world beneath the sea to millions of landlocked viewers,
> died after a reportedly lengthy illness. He was 87.
> 
> A press statement from the Cousteau Foundation, which in recent years has
> handled all his business and personal affairs, announced his death.
> 
> Jacques-Yves Cousteau has rejoined the World of Silence, the foundation
> said, referring to one of his most famous documentaries.
> 
> Cousteau's 60-year-long odyssey with the Earth's seas much of it on his
> famous boat, the Calypso was more than a great adventure. He co-invented
> the aqualung, developed a one-man, jet-propelled submarine and helped start
> the first manned undersea colonies.
> 
> But the bespectacled, wiry Cousteau, often wearing his trademark red wool
> cap, became a household name primarily through his hugely popular
> television series, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, and his many
> documentaries.
> 
> After he led a 1972 voyage to Antarctica, a worldwide television audience
> saw for the first time the extraordinary beauty of sculptured ice
> formations under the sea. Cousteau liked to call himself an oceanographic
> technician. But he was also a romantic who once said that for him, water
> was the ultimate symbol of love. The reason why I love the sea, I cannot
> explain, a chuckling Cousteau told The Associated Press. It's physical. ...
> When you dive, you begin to feel that you're an angel. It's a liberation of
> your weight. Inauspicious beginnings
> 
> Cousteau was born June 11, 1910, in Saint-Andre-de-Cubzac, a small town
> near Bordeaux. His father was a lawyer who traveled constantly. As a
> result, the boy was often on the move. He was a sickly child. Nonetheless,
> he learned to swim and spent hours at the beach. Formal schooling bored
> Cousteau; he was expelled from high school for breaking 17 of the school's
> windows. His first dive was in Lake Harvey, Vermont, in the summer of 1920.
> He was spending the season away from New York City, where he and his
> parents lived briefly.
> 
> In 1930, Cousteau passed the highly competitive entrance examinations to
> enter France's Naval Academy. He served in the navy and entered naval
> aviation school. A near-fatal car crash at age 26 denied him his wings, and
> he was transferred to sea duty, where he swam rigorously to strengthen
> badly weakened arms. The therapy had unintended consequences, as Cousteau
> wrote in his 1953 book, The Silent World, which has sold 5 million copies
> in more than 20 languages. Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our
> lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run
> headlong down an immutable course, he wrote. It happened to me ... on that
> summer's day, when my eyes were opened to the sea. Manfish During World War
> II, Cousteau was involved in espionage activities for the French
> Resistance. After the war, he was decorated with the Legion of Honor,
> France's highest honor. He also made his first underwater films during the
> war period, and, with engineer Emile Gagnan, perfected the piece of
> equipment that he said enabled him to be a manfish the aqualung, an
> underwater breathing apparatus that supplies oxygen to divers. In 1950, a
> millionaire gave Cousteau money to buy the 400-ton former mine-sweeper
> Calypso. He converted it into a floating laboratory outfitted with the most
> modern equipment, including underwater television gear. In 1952-53 Cousteau
> took the Calypso to the Red Sea and shot the first color footage ever taken
> at a depth of 150 feet. One of his most renowned exploits was the
> unearthing of the hull of an ancient Greek wine freighter, buried deep in
> fossil mud 130 feet below the surface off the French coast near Marseilles.
> The Calypso also conducted the first offshore oil survey by divers.
> 
> He authored countless books, including The Living Sea (1963) and World
> Without Sun (1965). A 20-volume encyclopedia, The Ocean World of Jacques
> Cousteau, was blished in the United States and England. In 1977, the
> Cousteau Odyssey's series premiered on PBS. Seven years later, the Cousteau
> Amazon 94 series premiered on the Turner Broadcasting System. In all, his
> documentaries have won 40 Emmy nominations. Explorer, educator, He will be
> remembered not only as a pioneer in his time, but as a dominant figure in
> world history, said President Ronald Reagan in 1985. Cousteau's films and
> philosophy influenced people of all ages. He kept working well into his
> 80s, giving up diving in cold water but not giving up educating young
> people about the past. So popular was the explorer that students at the
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology made up a song about him.
> He doesn't have to come up for air. He's Jacques, Jacques, Jacques
> Cousteau. How long can you go, the singing tribute went. From sea to
> shining sea, he checks them out for you and me. It was in his later years
> that Cousteau tried to teach the world to save itself. Future generations
> would not forgive us for having deliberately spoiled their last opportunity
> and the last opportunity is today, he said at a 1992 environmental
> gathering. Age did not dim his enthusiasm. Even as the Cousteau Society and
> Turner Original Productions honored him with an 85th birthday special, he
> still approached his life's work with a sense of adventure. There is not
> bad diver. Never. Always something new to learn and see, he said. And after
> a lifetime of invention, exploration and storytelling, Cousteau said not
> long before he died that he was proudest of helping to save Alaska, the
> Antarctic, the Amazon and of helping awaken the awareness of people all
> over the world. All these things have been hard won, he said. And we did it
> and I'm proud of it.
> 
> Correspondent Mark Leff and The Associated Press contributed to this
> report.