Jacques Mayol ( April 1, 1927 – December 22, 2001 ) was the holder of many world records in free diving.

Jacques Mayol was a French national born in Shanghai, China.

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.

Jacques Mayol ’ s lifelong passion for diving was based on his love for the ocean, his personal philosophy and his desire to explore his own limits.

Mayol was already an experienced free diver when he met the Sicilian Enzo Maiorca

Between 1966 and 1983, Mayol was eight times no-limits world champion.

Mayol ’ s fascination with dolphins started in 1955 when he was working as a commercial diver at an aquarium in Miami, Florida.

Luc Besson was initially unsure of whom to cast in the main role of Jacques Mayol.

Félix Mayol ( 18 November 1872 – 1 November 1941 ) was a French singer and entertainer.

Maiorca was fictionalized in the 1988 Luc Besson film The Big Blue as well as his rivalry with the French diver Jacques Mayol.

After coming to the attention of the then great music hall star Félix Mayol who was also from Toulon, in 1908 he was given a chance to work as a secondary act in the Paris theater scene.

On the day of his arrival in Paris, on May 1, 1895, just before his first concert, Félix Mayol was met by a female friend at the station, who gave him some lily-of-the-valley, a flower people traditionally exchange on May 1 in France.

He pinned it on his lapel, his concert was a success and Mayol, who was superstitious, made the lily-of-the-valley his personal emblem.

The facility, named Stade Mayol in his honor, remains in use today ( after several renovations ) as the home ground for the Toulon rugby team.

Established in 1908, Toulon currently play their home games at the Stade Mayol, although they have begun to take high-profile matches to the 60, 000-seat Stade Vélodrome in Marseille, playing one match there in 2008 – 09 and two in both 2009 – 10 and 2010 – 11.

It is named after Félix Mayol, a very popular concert hall singer from Toulon who had succeeded in Paris in the early 20th century.

On December 22, 2001, Mayol committed suicide by hanging himself in Elba, Italy, at the age of 74.

Mayol reached 60m depth.

In 1976 Mayol broke the 100m barrier with a no-limits 101m dive off Elba, Italy.

Mayol ’ s last deep dive followed in 1983 when he reached the depth of 105m, at the age of 56.

It is the dolphins that became the foundation of Mayol ’ s life philosophy of Homo Delphinus.

Jacques Mayol predicted that, within a couple of generations, some people would be able to dive to 200m and hold their breath for up to ten minutes.

* 1976 – Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100 m undersea without breathing equipment.

On their stages, using then-popular single name pseudonyms or one birth name only, Damia, Kiki, Mayol and Georgius, sang and performed to packed houses.

The movie begins with Jacques Mayol and Enzo Molinari as children.

The teenage Maurice Chevalier took a risk by impersonating Mayol in small-time cafe entertainments, Mayol recognised the young man's talent and gave him his blessing.

Mayol never married, and many stories circulated of his homosexual liaisons, including an attempt to seduce Maurice Chevalier.

After being seen by Félix Mayol, one of the leading male singing stars at the time, he hired her to perform at his concerts.

Sóller Railway Station ( Coordinates: ) on the other hand is much larger, developed from a fortified house dating from 1606, Ca ' n Mayol.

The era lasted through to the 1930s and saw the likes of Félix Mayol, Lucienne Boyer, Marie-Louise Damien, Marie Dubas, Fréhel, Georges Guibourg, Tino Rossi, Jean Sablon, Charles Trenet, Édith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier.

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.