RV Calypso - The Calypso in Popular Culture

The Calypso in Popular Culture

  • Calypso was featured in The Silent World, the 1956 film awarded the Academy Award for Documentary Feature, and the 1956 Palme d'Or.
  • The ship was also featured in the 1964 film World Without Sun (Le Monde sans Soleil), which also won the Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
  • John Denver wrote a 1975 hit song "Calypso" as a tribute to Calypso and her crew.
  • Jean Michel Jarre wrote a four-part composition in tribute to the ship, called Waiting for Cousteau (1990).
  • GWAR wrote a song entitled "Je M'Appelle J. Cousteau", which was featured on their album Hell-O, originally released in 1988. It is not entirely clear whether this song is in tribute or slander, but the song is entirely about Jacques Cousteau and his ship the Calypso.
  • The Captain's yacht of the USS Enterprise-D, on Star Trek: The Next Generation, was named Calypso by actor Patrick Stewart. He also gave the name Cousteau to the Captain's yacht of the USS Enterprise-E in homage to the Calypso's famous former Captain.
  • Bill Murray starred in a film parody of Jacques Cousteau's life called The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. In the movie, Zissou travels the seas in a ship called the Belafonte. This is an oblique reference to Jacques Cousteau's ship Calypso. Harry Belafonte is a noted musician who played calypso music on an album called Calypso. Dissimilar to the Calypso, the Belafonte is a "long-range sub-hunter".

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