Don’t tell the Hungarians

As reported by Brad Matsen, Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King:

In 1966, Cousteau had just landed a deal with ABC to air twelve episodes of what would become The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. Quickly, a scramble was on to launch the expeditions that would provide the material for the TV series.

It took Cousteau three months to disentangle himself and Calypso from scientific and industrial charters, including one in which his divers were helping to lay a pipeline through which an aluminum plant would discharge red-mud waste into deep water. Better, scientists reasoned, to deposit the mud in deep water, where it settled immediately as sediment, than to allow it to ruin the near-shore shallows. (ch. 15, pp. 175-176)