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Harvey's Lake — Jacques Cousteau's Early Dive Site

Barnet, VT

Harvey's Lake is locally associated with Jacques Cousteau's childhood and is promoted as the place where the future ocean explorer had his first significant diving experience while attending summer camp. The unlikely inland Vermont connection makes the lake a peculiar landmark in diving history.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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