theduckguru
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Typical Americans unable to control their personal spending.
Curse you Scubaboard!!!
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koozemani
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As a young lad in Montreal, I grew up watching his exploits. But yes this is an expensive hobby. Thousands of dollars later there is still no end in sight. Pretty soon, you'll probably find me in the alley behind my Lds doing "favors" so I get that new light I want.
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Haha. U must have been born in the 90's if u just heard of the Cousteau Clan
As far as his movies go. U can download every show and movie he has ever been in for free
The internet is your friend...
And yes this hobby is addicting and will consume u if u love it half as much as most of us do!
U are lucky to have the parents u do.
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As far as his movies go. U can download every show and movie he has ever been in for free
The internet is your friend...
And yes this hobby is addicting and will consume u if u love it half as much as most of us do!
U are lucky to have the parents u do.
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But watching Odyssey (circa late 70s), doesn´t even begin to tell you the whole story. You have to go back to Le Monde Du Silence (1956) (The World of Silence), Cousteau´s first foray into the full length underwater film documentary. It is probably one of the most beautifully shot underwater documentaries that lets you peek in time without feeling so dated. It also let´s you see how little has changed, and how much our perception and understanding of other things as divers and as human beings has progressed. His aqua-lung with double hose invention in it´s first years, also these guys were rocking fast DPVs in the fifties! (take that Florida cavers). As the film starts, you will watch his people doing pretty nasty ascents (something in the ballpark of 200ft per minute, ha!). Cousteau even explains in very superficial terms the nuances of DCS and sports a fancy portable deco chamber on the Calypso. As the film unravels, and after about 30 minutes of such beautiful underwater film that you doubt this could have been shot in the early fifties, the date of the film starts to show with other things.
Cousteau is considered one of the fathers of the eco movement, and in particular one of the founders of marine conservation. Well, in Le Monde Du Silence, you will se him and his guys blow up a reef with dynamite (literally), jump on the backs of some giant sea trutles to use as DPVs (mind the atrocious ascent rate that goes with that), run over a whale (given, it was an accident) to then murder a shark just because "he is the monster of the seas", to doing some more turtle racing (now on land) and much more, sincerily atrocious things, by today´s standards. You have to watch it. We have progressed so much as human beings and as a society. Films like this allow future generations to understand how change takes time but it does happen.
So, on one hand it is a beautiful film, on the other hand it reminds us how far we have come as a society and as human beings by showing clearly all this things we would consider completely out of character today for a leader of a marine conservation movement. Every diver should watch this fantastic piece, laugh a little in the process, and then go watch something like Sharkwater to see how far we´ve come.
Cousteau is considered one of the fathers of the eco movement, and in particular one of the founders of marine conservation. Well, in Le Monde Du Silence, you will se him and his guys blow up a reef with dynamite (literally), jump on the backs of some giant sea trutles to use as DPVs (mind the atrocious ascent rate that goes with that), run over a whale (given, it was an accident) to then murder a shark just because "he is the monster of the seas", to doing some more turtle racing (now on land) and much more, sincerily atrocious things, by today´s standards. You have to watch it. We have progressed so much as human beings and as a society. Films like this allow future generations to understand how change takes time but it does happen.
So, on one hand it is a beautiful film, on the other hand it reminds us how far we have come as a society and as human beings by showing clearly all this things we would consider completely out of character today for a leader of a marine conservation movement. Every diver should watch this fantastic piece, laugh a little in the process, and then go watch something like Sharkwater to see how far we´ve come.
I'm not addicted. I can stop anytime I want. Really. No foolin'.
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Curse you, curse you all!!! :redhot: I'm a new diver and a new member of the board. One thing I noticed early on was frequent mentions of a certain Jacques Cousteau. Intrigued I investigated and was rewarded with tantalizing articles and video clips.
Today I decided to finally jump in and rented a digital copy of Journey to the End of the World. And ya know what? It was absolutely amazing! There was drama and suspense! Of course there was also some breathtaking dives including one particularly amazing dive into an iceberg (is it an ice dive or a cave dive, perhaps both).
So why am I cursing you? Well as it turns out very little of Cousteau's work has been released in the US. So now not only do I have to pay large amounts of money to dive, I also have to shell out large amounts of money to import foreign copies! Now I'm gonna be even more broke than I was before :redhot:! So once again curse you!!!!!!!!
Great thread, rubixcube.:redhot: Gonna add my own curse to ScubaBoard :redhot:
I was a vacation diver with no local dive buddies (not a single diver in my family nor circle of friends) when I joined SB in 2008.
Now I have MORE buddies and invites from SB members in FL, CA, local to NYC and all over the world to dive but am limited by work and money. So I curse SB for all the dangling "dive" carrots I've been cursed with since joining SB.
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