'Francine Triplet Cousteau' is the current President of the non-profit organization
Cousteau Society. Francine Cousteau is the widow of the famous
oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who died in
1997. Francine is the mother of Jacques Cousteau's third and fourth children.
Simone Melchior was the mother of Jacques Cousteau's first two children. Currently, efforts are underway to restore the Calypso to her former beauty and use her as a museum>