Philippe Tailliez

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Philippe Tailliez, 1982

Philippe Tailliez , (born July 15, 1905 in Malo-les-Bains , † September 26, 2002 in Toulon ) was a French sailor , scuba diver and writer . Together with Frédéric Dumas and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, he was a pioneer in diving with compressed air cylinders .

Life

The son of a sailor, Philippe Tailliez spent his youth in Dunkerque and Brittany . Even as a child he was fascinated by the stories of pearl divers in Tahiti . When he graduated from naval school, he was transferred to Toulon in 1924, where he became enthusiastic about freediving and underwater photography. He became a naval diving champion. The philosophy of the Swiss naturist Jacques Grob, whom he met in Carqueiranne near Toulon, inspired him and made clear to him the fragility of the ocean balance. In 1937 he wrote: «  The fertile, colorful coastal strip of the Mediterranean Sea, used by fish, is no wider than an inland river . “Tailliez met the young naval ensign Jacques-Yves Cousteau , who wanted to make underwater films. However, there were no possibilities of realization in France during World War II , so that the German Hans Hass , who shot the first underwater film in the Antilles in 1939 , got ahead of him. In 1938 Frédéric Dumas joined the group that Tailliez called "Les Trois Mousquemers" in a 1975 book based on The Three Musketeers .

Due to the Second World War, the group did not manage to make the first French underwater film entitled Par dix-huit mètres de fond until 1942, freediving . This was followed the following year by Epaves . The film made a big impression on the French admiralty , which in 1945 appointed Tailliez director of the “Groupe de Recherches Sous-Marines” (GERS), a naval institution that was supposed to develop underwater diving technology. At the same time, he and his group were in close contact with Jacques Piccard with whom he tested the Bathyscaph submersible off the coast of Dakar in 1949 . He described these adventures in his book “Plongée sans cable” .

In 1949 he went to Indochina and left the management of the GERS to Cousteau and Jean Alinat. After his return he embarked on the innovative technical adventure of developing the submersible "Aquarius" with the German Hans Sellner , which was supposed to be operated with liquid air instead of gasoline to fill the float. Due to lack of money, this boat was technically imperfect and sank on the first attempt at diving. In 1955 he became the commander of the French Rhine fleet, which was stationed in Bingen am Rhein . Not far from this location, he made the first attempt at diving at Binger Loch . After leaving the Navy in 1960, he dealt with the environmental problems of the sea and was a. a. 1964 founding member of the Scientific Committee of the Port-Cros National Park and of the Paul Ricard Oceanographic Institute on the island of Île des Embiez .

Works

  • In the depths of the seas. Ullstein, Vienna 1956
  • Adventure on the seabed , Hallwag, Stuttgart Bern, 1970

by Philippe Tailliez

  • La plongée en scaphandre , co-auteurs Ph. Tailliez, F.Dumas, JY Cousteau, J. Alinat, F. Devilla, Éd. Elzevir, 1949 . A manual of diving (French)
  • La plongée , coauteurs Ph. Tailliez, F. Dumas, JY Cousteau, J. alinat, F. Devilla, Éd. Arthaud, 1955 . Reissued in 1960 and 1967 .
  • Plongées sans câble , Philippe Tailliez, Éd. Arthaud, 1954 . Prix ​​Nautilus.
  • Nouvelles plongées sans câble , Éd. Arthaud, 1960 .
  • Aquarius , Philippe Tailliez, Ed. France Empire, 1961 . Prix ​​de l'Académie de Marine.
  • Nouvelles plongées sans câble (1943 à 1966) , Éd. Arthaud, 1967 .
  • Plongées sans cable , Éd. Edisud, 1998 .
  • Les Forces Maritimes du Rhin , Ed. Carré Blanc, 2007 .

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SURNAME Tailliez, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sailor, scuba diver and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Malo-les-Bains
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 2002
Place of death Toulon