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He logged twenty thousand hours underwater with four missing finger segments
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He logged twenty thousand hours underwater with four missing finger segments
In this episode, we follow Albert Falco from the limestone inlets of Sormiou to the decks of the Calypso as he turns a crippling injury into a life lived beneath the waves. The episode traces his early dives, the industrial surveys, and the path that led him to work with Jacques-Yves Cousteau - and asks how a boy without the papers to command a ship became the first oceanaut.
Person: Albert Falco
Date: May 9, 1946 (injury); October 17, 1927 (birth)
Location: Sormiou, Calanques south of Marseille; Grand Conglué; Calypso
Event: Detonation of wartime ordnance; entry onto the Calypso in 1952
Hours logged: Twenty thousand hours underwater
- At eighteen, Falco found a pen-shaped device in the shallows that detonated in his left hand, costing him four finger segments.
- Within two years he was working professionally underwater, logging ninety hours on a single dam survey at Fontaine-de-Vaucluse.
- He adopted the name "fish-man" for himself while local officials like Jean Flavien Borelli called him a "water god."
- In 1952 Borelli recommended Falco to Jacques-Yves Cousteau for a chief diver role on the Calypso to work a Roman wreck at Grand Conglué.
- Falco spent decades on the Calypso, working long, dangerous sessions at depth on a ship converted from a Royal Navy minesweeper.
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