Calypso's first mate dead
I f.V.Z P 1 -Renter—< opvngb-■ LOS ANGLES. Jan. I The first mate of Jacques Cousteau's oceanographic re search ship. Calypso, has been killed in an accident on Deception Island. Antarctica Mr Michel Laval, aged 31 slipped on some ice. and fell into the rotating propeller of a helicopter. News of the accident was released by the Metromedia Producers Corporation, sponsor of four television documentaries on marine life be ing filmed by the Cousteau team. Mr Laval was killed while leading a climbing group away from the helicopter to examine a fissure on an ex--1 tinct volcano
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33113, 2 January 1973, Page 9
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