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The Cousteau oceanographic team’s PBY-6A Calypso awaits takeoff at Le Bourget airport in 1977, two years before it crashed on Portugal’s Tagus River. (Chris Mak via Michael Prophet)
The Cousteau oceanographic team’s PBY-6A Calypso awaits takeoff at Le Bourget airport in 1977, two years before it crashed on Portugal’s Tagus River. (Chris Mak via Michael Prophet)