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- 2,000 years under the seas

- It is at Riou Island, in the southeast of Marseilles, that the Calypso had a meeting.

- As everyone now knows, Captain Cousteau’s Calypso has been specially equipped with the help of the Navy and the National Education of submarine research.

- As a fact, the meetings of the Calypso are generally not on the surface and this one was not an exception to the rule.

- The frogmen dove with a submarine TV camera.

- Captain Cousteau followed on the screen those who were exploring at 40 meters under the surface a Greek ship that sank 2,200 years ago with its cargo of wines and pottery.

- Experience that has a large scope as it was the first time in the world that officially submarine researches were being followed and directed from the surface.

- And in this way, both the wreck and the history of an old tragedy emerge, a 2 millennium old tragedy.

- A merchantman from Delos, loaded with wines and pottery caught in the tempest shrank into the reefs of Riou Island.

- This permitted the bringing back of 7,000 amphorae with 1,250 divings, pieces of pottery, anchors and the onboard equipment that will enrich European museums.

- Some amphorae were kept intact, plugged, sealed.

- The wine was still in dregs and dust of course, well, 2, 000 years into a bottle!

- But other amphorae delivered other surprises.

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