La Rochelle, France
Jacques Cousteau’s boat, the Calypso, is rusting away in a French harbor and may have to be scuttled, the London Independent reported. “Everything that is not broken is rotten, and everything that is not rotten is broken,” said Patrick Schnepp, head of the local maritime museum. The museum was going to create a Cousteau exhibit around the ship, but Schnepp says it would be cheaper to sink the wreck and build a replica from scratch. Famed underwater explorer Cousteau made films on and under the Calypso for nearly 50 years, until shortly before his death in 1997. Since then the Guinness family, which owns the ship, has been squabbling with Cousteau’s widow and sons over what to do with it.
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