Delauze was born in the South of France in 1929 . He was an engineer and at 20 years old leaves for his military service, where he begins to dive.
Later in France, he used his skill learned at the military and worked for French companies specialized in diving equipment and undersea works. He met the Commandant Cousteau and worked for him in several undersea excavations in the 1950’s.
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Life has a habit of turning on chance meetings.
For me, my fate flipped from Norfolk Pig Farmer to Professional Deep Sea Diver one morning in 1968. I was having breakfast in a boarding house in Beccles, when a group of air divers came up to my table. They were one man short.
"Have you ever dived before?" asked one.
"No," I replied.
And there the conversation should have ended. But it didn't – and somehow I was soon plunging feet first into a world I hitherto had no idea existed.
David Harrison Beckett on an early dive
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The qualifications required for offshore diving work are to a large extent outside the normal jurisdiction of national governments due to the geographical situation of the work-sites, but the contractors and client organisations are bound by national and international legislation, and the procedural guidelines of organisations of which they may be members or signatories.[citation needed] A large number of international marine contractors are members of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA), and much of international offshore diving follows IMCA procedures.
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