Calypso is the name of a ship that Jacques-Yves Cousteau, one of the most important researchers in oceanography, equipped as a mobile laboratory for field research.

Calypso was originally a minesweeper with the hull number J-826 of the United States Navy. J-826 was launched on March 21, 1942, and was assigned to the Mediterranean Sea. After the war it became a ferry between Malta and the island of Gozo, and was renamed Calypso because, according to Homer, Calypso, a nymph, lived on the island of Gozo. Cousteau bought it, restructured and transformed it into an expedition vessel, to provide support for immediate oceanographic analysis, diving, and filming.

A barge accidentally rammed Calypso and sank it in the port of Singapore in 1996. Calypso is now in the Maritime Museum of La Rochelle.

External link

• Calypso page (http://www.cousteau.org/en/cousteau_world/our_ships/calypso.php) from the Cousteau Society.

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