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Renowned Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau Dies At 87

Legendary underwater explorer, filmmaker and environmentalist Jacques-Yves

Cousteau died of a heart attack at age 87 in his Paris home on June 25. Captain Cousteau, whose name is synonymous with worldwide marine exploration, became a familiar figure through a film career which earned him three

Oscars and three Cannes Film Festival awards.

He was also well known for television series

The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.

Calypso — a 400-ton mine sweeper which

Cousteau converted into a floating laboratory outfitted with high-tech equipment - was the centerpiece for much of the captain's oceano- graphic odyssey. The vessel was also part of the world's first offshore oil survey before it sank off of Singapore last year. Cousteau was report- edly building Calypso II as a replacement.

Wearing the hats of environmentalist and inventor, Cousteau helped to start the first manned undersea colony, developed the Aqua-

Lung and most recently created a one-person jet-propelled submarine. Cousteau aspired to solve the world's energy crisis by channeling the sea's tides and temperatures, and by extracting essential raw materials from the ocean floor which would feed the world's popu- lation.

At his last public appearance in January, • r mm '"'if i

Jacques-Yves Cousteau is pictured at his last public appear- ance in January 1997, as he received the Oceanus Award for

Environmental Service at the annual gathering of the recreation- al scuba diving industry at the Diving Equipment and Marketing

Association (DEMA) Show in Orlando, Fla.

Cousteau received the Oceanus Award for

Environmental Service at the Diving

Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) show in Orlando, Fla. "The future of civiliza- tion depends on water," Cousteau commented at the event. "I beg you all to understand this."

Cousteau's memoirs, under the title The

Man, the Octopus and the Orchidea, were scheduled to go on sale July 1. According to his widow Francine, Cousteau will be buried in

Bordeaux, his native region.

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Dry Bulk Rates Should Stay Up

U.K. shipbroking group Simpson Spence and

Young (SSY) has forecast that dry bulk ship- ping markets will remain competitive over the summer and that rates will not fall as low as they did in the middle of 1996. The group attributed this optimism mainly to firm expec- tations for the trade in steam coal this year and next.

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Billion In Port

Chinese authorities will reportedly invest $24.1 billion to turn Meizhou Bay in the southeastern province of Fujian into a major port. There were no immediate indications of how the money would be raised.

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