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Historical Diver, Number 13, 1997 Item Type monograph Publisher Historical Diving Society U.S.A. Download date 04/10/2021 09:15:30 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/1834/30856 IDSTORICAL DIVER Number 13 Fall 1997 Jacques Yves Cousteau Commemorative Issue The Pioneering Years "Allons Voir" HISTORICAL DIVING SOCIETY USA HISTORICAL DIVER MAGAZINE A PUBLIC BENEFIT NONPROFIT CORPORATION ISSN 1094-4516 2022 CLIFF DRIVE #119 THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA 93109 U.S.A. THE HISTORICAL DIVING SOCIETY U.S.A. PHONE: 805-692-0072 FAX: 805-692-0042 DIVING HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF e-mail: [email protected] or HTTP://WWW.hds.org/ AUSTRALIA, S.E. ASIA ADVISORY BOARD EDITORS Dr. Sylvia Earle Dick Long Leslie Leaney, Editor Dick Bonin J. Thomas Millington, M.D. Andy Lentz, Production Editor CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Scott Carpenter Bob & Bill Meistrell Bonnie Cardone E.R. Cross Nick !corn Jean-Michel Cousteau Bev Morgan Peter Jackson Nyle Monday Jeff Dennis E.R. Cross Phil Nuytten John Kane Jim Boyd Dr. Sam Miller Andre Galeme Sir John Rawlins OVERSEAS EDITORS Lad Handelman Andreas B. Rechnitzer Ph.D. Michael Jung (Germany) Prof. Hans and Lotte Hass Sidney J. Smith Nick Baker (United Kingdom) Les Ashton Smith Jeff Maynard (Australia) Email: [email protected] HISTORICAL DIVER (ISSN 1094-4516) is published four times a SOCIETY BOARD OF DIRECTORS year by the Historical Diving Society USA, a Non-Profit Corpora Chairman: Captain Paul Linaweaver M.D., U.S.N. Rtd., Sec tion, 2022 Cliff Drive #119 Santa Barbara, California 93109 USA. retaryffreasurer: James Forte, Directors: Bonnie Cardone, Skip Copyright © 1997 all rights reserved Historical Diving Society USA Dunham, Bob Kirby, Nick Icom, Bob Christiansen, Steve Tel. 805-692-0072 Fax 805-692-0042. HISTORICAL DIVER is compiled by Leslie Leaney and Andy Lentz. Chaparro, Shane Anderson, Executive Director: Leslie Leaney. The content is affected by various elements. The Society only guaran tees that each issue will contain no fewer than 24 pages .. ADVERTISING INQUIRIES should be directed to: Historical Diver ..----FOUNDING BENEFACTORS-----. Magazine at Tel. 805-692-0072 Fax 805-692-0042 CONTRIBUTIONS: WE WELCOME CONTRIBUTIONS ON ANY Art Bachrach, Ph. D. Robert & Caroline Leaney HISTORICAL DIVING SUBJECT. Submissions and contributions Roger Bankston A.L. "Scrap" Lundy on floppy disk are preferred (3.5" Windows/DOS text format or Apple Ken and Susan Brown Jim Mabry Macintosh formats) Please send a typed hard copy in addition to any Wayne Brusate Andrew R. Mrozinski disk. Typed manuscripts are also welcome. Illustrations accompany P.K. Chandran Torrance Parker ing text are appreciated. Submissions should be sent to: Editor, His John Rice Churchill Alese and Morton Fechter torical Diver, 2022 Cliff Dr. #119, Santa Barbara, CA, 93109 USA. If you have access to e-mail, contributions can be sent to Raymond I. Dawson, Jr. Bob Ratcliffe [email protected]. Jesse and Brenda Dean Lee Selisky THE OPINIONS AND VIEWS EXPRESSED are those of the re Diving Systems International Robert D. Shepard spective authors and are not necessarily the opinions and views of the Fred Johnson Rod Stanley Historical Diving Society USA. © 1997 Historical Diving Society USA. Ron & Christl Karlsson Hironao Tanaka All Rights Reserved. Bob & Claudia Kirby Dr. James Vorosmarti DISCLAIMER Leslie Leaney Gene & Elizabeth Webb Diving is a potentially hazardous practice and if practiced incorrectly or with incomplete planning and procedures can expose a person to con siderable risks including serious injury or death. It requires specialized training, equipment and experience. HISTORICAL DIVER is not in tended as a substitute for the above or for the diver to abandon common sense in pursuit of diving activities beyond his or her abilities. HIS TORICAL DIVER is intended as a source of information on various aspects of diving, not as a substitute for proper training and experience. AFFILIATE MEMBER CHARTER HDS For training in diving, contact a national certification agency. The reader DHSASEA MEMBER HDS ITALIA is advised that all the elements of hazard and risk associated with diving HDS S. AFRICA cannot be brought out within the scope of this text. The individuals, HDSUSA SAN DIEGO companies and organizations, presented in HISTORICAL DIVER, are 2726 SHELTER ISLAND DRIVE #80 not liable for damage or injury including death which may result from SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 92106 TEL 619-226-1199 any diving activities, with respect to information contained herein. INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES HDS HDSITALIA HDS SOUTH AFRICA DHS AUSTRALIA HDS DENMARK, SECRETARY SECRETARY SECRETARY SOUTH EAST ASIA THE SECRETARY, LITTLE GATTON LODGE Via G.B. Barbiani, 13 P.O. BOX 36541 P.O. BOX 2064 FRIDTJOF NANSENSVEJ 25 GATTON ROAD 48100 RAVENNA CHEMPET 7442 NORMANVILLE 32, 8200 - RHUS REI GATE, ITALY CAPETOWN 5204 SOUTH AUSTRALIA DENMARK SURREY RH2 OHB SOUTH AFRICA AUSTRALIA UNITED KINGDOM 2 HISTORICAL DIVER No. 13 Fall 1997 HISTORICAL DIVER ISSN 1094-4516 Number 13 Fa111997 PAGE CONTENT 4 A Legacy of Hope - Jean Michel Cousteau 6 1998 Board of Directors, Secretary's Notebook 7 American Sports Diving Pioneers 8 DHSASEA Founding Board Members 9 Line Dancing Down Under- Jeff Maynard 10 Society Logo, New Members 11 The New HDS Membership Sponsor Program, Classic Equipment 12 News and Calendar 14 Jacques Yves Cousteau. The Pioneering Years, "Allons Voir." -By Leslie Leaney. 30 A guide to the early books of Captain Cousteau.- By Philippe Rousseau & Leslie Leaney 32 Women Pioneers in Diving. Simone Cousteau- By Bonnie Cardone 34 Development of self contained diving prior to Cousteau and Gagnan- Peter Jackson 37 Ye Olde U.S. Navy Master Divers Locker 38 Helmets of the Deep. Santorn of Boston- Peter Jackson and Leon Lyons 40 Book Review. 20,000 JoBs UNDER THE SEA by Torrance Parker- Reviewed by Leslie Leaney 42 Diving History Seminar at Gosport, England 43 Dive Into History at Monterey, California 44 Diving History Seminar at Espalion, France 45 HDSUSA Rally at San Pedro, California 46 History on the Riviera. The 24th Antibes Underwater Film Festival, France. HDS Italia Conference, Genoa Italy A visit to Xarifa, Monte Carlo, Monaco -By James Forte 49 In Memory. John D. Craig and Dimitri Rebikoff 50 The James Lockwood Letters. Dimitri Rebikoff 51 In Memory. Rob Palmer, Peter Stackpole, Dr. Raymond E. Rogers and William Hancock EDITORIAL This special double issue of HISTORICAL DIVER is dedicated to the memory of Captain Jacques Yves Cousteau, the diver who gave us the passport to the Silent World. We are privileged to have our friend Jean-Michel Cousteau record the "Legacy of Hope" that his father has given to us, and to future generations of divers. Historically, much of the Captain's later career has become common knowledge to the divers of the world through his films, books and television programs. However, little is generally known of Jacques Cousteau's early career and his underseas journey that led to the publication of The Silent World and the formation of U.S. Divers. His sad passing presents an opportunity for divers to reacquaint themselves with this adventurous time in diving history when he emerged out of post World War II France, and began to establish himself and the Aqualung internationally. Jacques Yves Cousteau. The Pioneering Years, "Allons Voir" records Jacques Cousteau's diving development during the period from 1936 to 1953, and details the contributions of some of the Americans who were instrumental in popularizing both Captain Cousteau and the Aqualung, throughout the world. To assist members who may seek a fuller knowledge of Jacques Cousteau's early work, we have published a guide to some of the books that record this period. This will enable readers to trace and locate the various publications and, hopefully, gain a greater appreciation of Cousteau's significant early contributions. With this issue, HISTORICAL DIVER also celebrates it's Five Year Anniversary. We would like to thank everyone who has submitted an article and has, and still has, the patience to stick with us while we try to produce a balanced publication. We would also like to acknowledge our loyal band of sponsors and advertisers who have helped to keep our struggling 'baby' alive, and our team of Contributing Editors from around the world that regularly amaze us with their research. Finally we wish to thank the Society Board of Directors and every Society member who have trusted us to deliver a publication that is, for us, a genuine labor of love. We hope we have done justice to your trust. Leslie Leaney and Andy Lentz. Editors HISTORICAL DIVER No.l3 Fall1997 3 A Legacy of Hope by JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU Reprinted with the permission of SKIN DIVER Magazine He is forever etched in our memory: the laughing French some process, forever limited by the umbilical link to the sur man in the red cap, the ethereal diver, the ship's captain squint face. But he scorned these limits, as he had all others. His re ing defiantly into the teeth of an Antarctic blizzard. We are sponse was to perfect the regulator, which later became part of inundated with images of Jacques Cousteau. Sound-bite obituar the Aqua-Lung. Once underwater, he achieved an unparalleled ies show him accepting theNational Geographic Society Medal degree of freedom. His curiosity could roam at will-well, al of Honor from President John F. Kennedy, conferring with most. Soon he pushed the limits of time, depth and his physiol French President Charles de Gaulle, discussing technical de ogy. For a time, he thought he could overcome this by oxygen tails with Monaco's Prince Rainier and Princess Grace. His ating his own blood but, in the end, he decided to build the own films show him poring over maps, readying equipment submersibles Denise and the famed Sea Fleas.