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The Oceanographic Museum was inaugurated in 1910 by Monaco's modernist reformer Prince Albert I, [2] who invited to the celebrations not just high officials and celebrities but also the world-leading oceanographers of the day to develop the concept of a future Mediterranean Commission dedicated to oceanography, now called Mediterranean Science Commission.
The Institut océanographique was founded in 1906 by Albert I, Prince of Monaco [1] (the International Hydrographic Organization was launched in Monaco in 1921). In 1957, Jacques Cousteau was appointed director of the Institut océanographique. [2]
In 1957, Cousteau took over as leader of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. [2] Afterward, with the assistance of Jean Mollard, he made a "diving saucer" SP-350 , an experimental underwater vehicle which could reach a depth of 350 meters.
This list of museums in Monaco contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Jacques Cousteau was an adventurer, filmmaker, inventor, author, unlikely celebrity and conservationist. But for National Geographic’s “Becoming Cousteau,” director Liz Garbus focused on his ...
Voyage to the Edge of the World (French: Voyage au bout du monde) is a 1976 French nature documentary film directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, his son Philippe Cousteau and Marshall Flaum. The film follows a four-month expedition through Antarctica undertaken between the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau had one of those faces that seemed to come from an earlier time — before the world wars, maybe even before the 20th century. It was a face so thin and tapered yet open, so ...
An international congress of diving federations representing all underwater disciplines met in Brussels on 28 September 1958. National delegates attended from following countries: Belgium, Brazil, France, the Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Italy, Monaco, Portugal, Switzerland, the United States of America and the former Yugoslavia.