Philippe Tailliez
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Philippe Tailliez was a friend and colleague of Jacques Cousteau. He was an underwater pioneer, who had been diving since the 1930s.
Philippe Tailliez
FNRS-2
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The FNRS-2 was the first bathyscaphe. It was created by Auguste Piccard. Work started in 1937 but was interrupted by World War II. The deep-diving submarine was finished in 1948. The bathyscaphe was n
Philippe Tailliez
…the principle of diving tables. In 1949 they helped Auguste Piccard off the coast of the Cape Verde Islands with his prototype of the bathyscaphe FNRS-2. Tailliez has described these adventures in his book Plongées sans câble (Diving without a cable). These adventures are told in the book of Philippe…
The FNRS-3 at the Tour Royale in Toulon.