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FROGMEN is The True Story of Journeys With Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the Crew of Calypso. The author, Richard E. Hyman first worked for Jacques Cousteau in 1973, at the age of eighteen, just out of high school. He drove a supply truck for Cousteau from Los Angeles to the Canadian wilderness and worked with Cree Native Americans building a cabin for the Cousteau team to winter in and film Beavers of the North Country. Subsequent journeys included diving in Florida's warm springs with manatee and off the panhandle with stone crabs. Months later he flew to Mexico's Yucatán and boarded Calypso, a relatively small and unsteady wooden ship, and camped on the uninhabited Contoy Island to study spiny lobsters. From there he sailed south along the 180-mile Belize Barrier Reef, filming the spawning of thousands of grouper, The Fish that Swallowed Jonah, and a visit from singer songwriter John Denver. On his final voyage, en route to Venezuela, he experienced treacherous dives on the USS Monitor shipwreck off North Carolina, skeletons inside wrecks off Martinique, and the death of Jacques' son, Philippe Cousteau.