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A few days ago, I came upon this story on a french website (http://come.to/oceano), about a supposed Cousteau mystery.
Link is long dead. See post below for current access to the content cited here.
The affair apparently started on June 26 1985. (there's a mistake on the dates on the website?) Stephane Swirog gives the information as relayed by one of his military colleague.
It was an apparent discovery/experiment by JY Cousteau near Djibouti, near some islands of the Tadjoura gulf and more precisely in the El Kharab Pass (The Koubé is also mentionned later on...sorry, I'm unfamiliar with the geography of the region).
A camel carcass was put in a sharks cage to attract the predators. When the cage was raised out, it had been completely crushed as if by a huge, powerful animal (a Carcharodon Megalodon?).
According to Jean Jacques Barloy, commandant Cousteau had filmed the creature responsible for destroying the cage. But, due to the poor quality of the film, and fears to his reputation, Cousteau has never made the film public and apprently kept it in a safe (story told on the tv show "Science au Naturel, Oct.5 1987 on France Inter).
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I would be interested in learning more about this story. If anyone has more documentation, links, book or magazine articles, I would be grateful for any little tidbits found, mostly to see if the facts mentionned on the web site can be corroborated elsewhere.
Thank you in advance.
Link is long dead. See post below for current access to the content cited here.
The affair apparently started on June 26 1985. (there's a mistake on the dates on the website?) Stephane Swirog gives the information as relayed by one of his military colleague.
It was an apparent discovery/experiment by JY Cousteau near Djibouti, near some islands of the Tadjoura gulf and more precisely in the El Kharab Pass (The Koubé is also mentionned later on...sorry, I'm unfamiliar with the geography of the region).
A camel carcass was put in a sharks cage to attract the predators. When the cage was raised out, it had been completely crushed as if by a huge, powerful animal (a Carcharodon Megalodon?).
According to Jean Jacques Barloy, commandant Cousteau had filmed the creature responsible for destroying the cage. But, due to the poor quality of the film, and fears to his reputation, Cousteau has never made the film public and apprently kept it in a safe (story told on the tv show "Science au Naturel, Oct.5 1987 on France Inter).
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I would be interested in learning more about this story. If anyone has more documentation, links, book or magazine articles, I would be grateful for any little tidbits found, mostly to see if the facts mentionned on the web site can be corroborated elsewhere.
Thank you in advance.
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