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The Silent World
Stock No 2381
Artist / Author / Creator COUSTEAU, Jacques-Yves
Category Books
Country Published U.K.
Date Published 1975
Description 1st Omeaga Ed. pb. 241pp. prof illus with col & b/w plates. vg cond. The author gives a full account of how he developed the aqualung. He then tells how with Frederic Dumas & Phillippe Tailliez they founded the French Navy’s Undersea Research Group in 1945. Their exploits include searching for the submerged ruins of ancient Carthage, salvaging Greek and Phoenician remains from Mediterranean wrecks, swimming through forests of precipitous coral and taking part in the Piccard bathyscaphe expedition to the Gulf of Guinea. The author takes you down to the floor of the ocean, introducing you to countless varieties of fish and their idiosyncrasies.
Price £2.00
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