For 40 years, Calypso carried Captain Cousteau and his teams to explore all the riches and the fragility of the oceans.

In the Suez Canal, she was almost sunk by mistake during the 1956 Egypt-Israel conflict.


It was three o'clock in the afternoon, in the port of Singapore, January 8, 1996, when a barge, in the process of being moved, seriously damaged Calypso just as she was about to depart for a Yellow River expedition. Her hull perforated, the grand old lady who had traveled through so many challenges heeled over and sank. The hearts of all her crew members over the years sank with her. It took 17 days to get the ship out of the water. Forever wounded, proud Calypso was now headed for one last mission: to bear witness for future generations of the extraordinary life of Captain Cousteau.



(B) Doulos

After leaving Manila in March 2009, Doulos sailed around Asia for a few months, then came to Singapore in October 2009.  She was docked at VivoCity and was opened to the public.

A week after the opening to the public, Doulos entered DryDocks World at Tuas, Singapore, for her annual maintenance.  The marine surveyors confirmed that the amount of steel replacement and other repairs needed for Doulos to continue sailing would cost over 10 million euros and take five months to complete.  The OM Ships came to the final decision that the Doulos ministry would have to end, as it would be inappropriate to invest resources of this scale into a ship with a limited future.

On 31 December 2009, Doulos was decommissioned.  And in March 2010, she was bought over by a Singaporean Christian businessman who has plans to preserve this historic vessel.