National Geographic Society
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Ocean Expedition
SPONSORED by the American National Geographic Society, a French led and equipped expedition early next year will commence a round-the-world four-year voyage of under-sea exploration. A study of depths and the physical and chemical characteristics of the ocean will be studied.
Leader of the expedition will be Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the French Navy’s foremost authority on diving and underwater exploration and co-inventor of the Aqualung diving equipment. The expedition’s ship will be the 350-ton former US minesweeper Calypso.
The ship will operate in the Atlantic in 1953-54 and in 1955-56, in the Pacific.