R.I.P. Calypso Captain Albert Falco.

http://californiadiver.com/albert-falco-diving-veteran-and-champion-of-underwater-conservation-dies/

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Captain of the Calypso and personal friend of Jacques Cousteau and a prominent voice in wildlife conservation, Falco was a great man and will be be dearly missed.

I still have the Jacques Cousteau book "Whales" which has the most beautiful underwater pictures of these animals and taken at a time where the crew of the Calypso literary had to work ahead of the harpoons.

I remember those biography books where every chapter about whales showed pictures of a whale being slaughtered on board a whaling ship since for many years that was the only way to photograph a whale and to get any information about them. Even stronger I remember seeing a documentary about whales which was filmed on board a whaler and one of the scientists watching a harpooned whale in its death struggle can be heard saying "It's so sad, we know so little about them and before we really can get the full scope, they will be extinct."

People like Falco were a big part into changing all that.

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I had the pleasure of meeting and spending an afternoon with Captain Falco who signed and inscribed his book for me. The inscription reads - The older I get the only things that remain are my dreams.

Memories of a magical day.

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RIP, Captain.

I am just reading "Coral". What a loss, somehow I wonder if the newer generations get exited about these wonders the way we did because they are inondated with trash science on a daily basis. My wife says I am showing my age. But we did have cool science to grow up with. Jacques Cousteau was an event as well as the space program. Now I have to settle with re reading my Tom Swift books.