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National Geographic : 1967 Jun
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Dean of undersea explorers, Capt. Jacques Yves Cousteau directs the Oceanographic Mu seum in Monaco. For two decades Cousteau has probed the waters of the world as leader of Calypso expeditions, often sponsored by the National Geographic Society, and he estab lished a base on the Mediterranean floor where oceanauts lived and worked for weeks. Last year Captain Cousteau welcomed al most 600,000 visitors to the museum. Many scientists utilize its marine research labora tories. Albert I, great-grandfather of Monaco's Prince Rainier, founded the institution as a showcase for the remarkable collection of marine specimens he had acquired on 29 sci entific voyages. Skeletons of seagoing animals, including a beaked whale, left, elephant seal, foreground, and long-jawed sperm whale, right, fill an entire hall. Like a feather bed, a sea anemone cushions a clownfish. They dwell with thousands of brilliantly variegated trop ical fish in one of 60 tanks in the museum's aquarium. 831
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