- Publisher:256 pp.
- Editor: GAP Editions
- Available in:Paper
- ISBN: 9782 74170 4430
Albert Falco has made generations of divers and non-divers dream, while arousing numerous vocations for the youngest, through his life of adventure and friendship aboard Commander Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Calypso. Those who experienced this period on television will inevitably remember the Kodacolor images where the blues are incomparable with their pastel shades which exude the sea and the sun, while allowing us to guess a leaden heat through the shards of glass on the surface. some water.
Alain Foret
Presentation
InSormiou, Blue cradle of my memories, written in collaboration with Alain FORET, Albert FALCO looks back on his childhood in the Sormiou cove and his first learnings about nature, the sea and diving in the company of Georges BEUCHAT.
He then unfolds the thread of his life by opening to us his logbook, written day by day since his first boarding of the Calypso, for the excavations of the Grand Conclu in Riou (Marseille).
After more than 20,000 hours under the sea and several circumnavigations of the world, here are the memories and adventures of the “God of water”, the one who was the first “oceanaut” in the world, back in Sormiou la calanque of his childhood.
A life of adventure unique in the world!
An essential book in the library of all divers and sea enthusiasts.
Albert FALCO was born in Marseille on October 17, 1927. His grandparents are Italian, from Naples on his mother's side, from Turin on his father's side. Presented to Commander COUSTEAU by Georges BEUCHAT, embarked on board the Calypso in 1952, he remained there for more than 37 years, experiencing all the adventures including the excavations of the Grand Conclu (1952-1954), Le Monde Silence (1956), Diogenes or Précontient I in the Frioul Islands in Marseille (1962, Le Monde sans soleil or Précontient II in Soudan (1963), …
Albert FALCO was successively diver, chief diver, expedition leader then Captain of the Calypso. With Cdt Cousteau and his Calypso companions, he inspired generations of divers and wrote the first pages of the underwater world shown to the general public. Albert FALCO died in Marseille on April 21, 2012.
SUMMARY
FOREWORD- Falco, child of Sormiou (by Ferdinand Lallemand)
INTRODUCTION
PREFACE- Albert Falco… Bébert… Bebs! (by Jean-Michel Cousteau)
SORMIOU,BLUE CRADLE OF MY MEMORIES
Marie de Sormiou
The first inhabitants
The origin of the name
English people in Sormiou
The paths of Sormiou
The Customs Barracks
The conquest of the peaks
Freshwater
Fragile nature
Fire
The little peach
My shed
Parties and games in Sormiou
The Sea Club
The seasons of the sea
THE CALL OF THE SEA
My father's boat
1939, everything collapses
Georges Beuchat
My first scuba dive
Freedom
Fountain of Vaucluse
1950, the first crossing
Whoop
The Grand Conclusion
For the first time at the helm of Calypso
I join the team
20,000HOURSUNDER THE SEAS
From Maarkos Sestios to Antikythera
My first big expedition
The silent world
The diving saucer
The first “oceanauts”
Napoleon's cannons
Swordfish
Mount Pelée
Dream wrecks
The Windmill
Epilogue
POSTFACE
a life is not enough
CHRONOLOGY
Thanks
Photo credits
Bibliography
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