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Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Seas
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau (June 11, 1910 – June 25, 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, photographer and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française.
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To many, Jacques-Yves Cousteau is forever connected with the Calypso, that former minesweeper built in the United States and converted into an oceanographic research ship in 1950. In 1951,with André Laban, he perfected under-water television equipment before setting off on many fruitful scientific cruises: to the coasts of Greece, the Black Sea, the Atlantic, and the Indian Ocean, then the three-and-a-half-year voyage across the Atlan¬tic, the Pacific, and the Bering Strait. He undertook the excavation of an old wreck off Marseilles and conducted various experiments with “houses under the sea” off Mar¬seilles and in the Red Sea, where six men spent three weeks at a depth of 330 feet.
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau died Wednesday, June 25, 1997, at 2:30 a.m. at the age of 87, after being hospitalized for months with a respiratory ailment. His memorial service was held at Notre Dame Cathedral, on Monday, June 30 (Leff). He will be remembered for his love of the sea. He believed that the sea was the key to life and if the ocean were to die, then everything on Earth would die with it (Perdue).
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Twenty years ago, Jacques-Yves Cousteau - who died in 1997 after a lifetime of campaigning for the seas – called for a people’s crusade to protect them. The words he spoke then still resonate.
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In Wes Anderson's Rushmore (1998) there is a famous quote by Jacques-Yves Cousteau in a book the main character, Max Fisher, reads and searches for who wrote it in progressing the story. The quote was "When one man, for whatever reason, has an opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself."
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