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unusual facts about The Big Blue



Jacques Mayol

The film The Big Blue, directed by Luc Besson in 1988, was inspired by his life story (and the life story of the Italian diver Enzo Maiorca); Mayol was one of the screenwriters.


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Cornelius Bumpus

In 2002 he worked on the Big Blue Earth project sponsored by the Church of Christ, Scientist.

Errett P. Scrivner

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress, largely due to his request for a vote for appropriations to continue construction on the controversial and wildly unpopular Tuttle Creek Dam along the Big Blue River.