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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau was the most famous undersea explorer in the world, known by his dozens of books and films from the 1950s until his death in 1997. Cousteau was born in Saint-Andre-de-Dubzac, France, to Daniel and Elizabeth Cousteau on June 11, 1910. Cousteau always loved the water and in his early teens, he became interested in machines. At the age of 11, Cousteau built a model crane and at 13, he built a battery-operated car. Also in his early teens, Cousteau became fascinated with films. He saved his money and bought a home movie camera.
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997) was a French undersea explorer, environmentalist, and innovator. In 1943, Cousteau and the French engineer Emile Gagnan invented the aqualung, a breathing apparatus that supplied oxygen to divers and allowed them to stay underwater for several hours. Cousteau traveled the world's oceans in his research vessel "Calypso," beginning in 1948. (Calypso was a converted 400-ton World War 2 minesweeper; it sank in 1996, after being hit by a barge in Singapore harbor). Cousteau's popular TV series, films and many books [including "The Living Sea" (1963), and "World Without Sun" (1965)] exposed the public to the wonders of the sea.
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau had a privileged background because his father was the lawyer for an American billionaire. At 13, he had already developed a passion for amateur film-making. Jacques-Yves ... loved the sea and enjoyed sailing and swimming. He attended Naval School, then became an officer in the French navy and also learned to fly. A serious car accident in 1936 forced him to give up his career as a pilot.
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau is perhaps the most well-known modern scuba diver and undersea explorer. He brought the world of undersea diving within the capabilities of ordinary people by inventing (with Emile Gagnan) the aqualung in 1942. This self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA) now enables divers to remain under water for an hour or more instead of minutes. Also, Cousteau helped design other diving equipment such as the two-person diving saucer.His explorations, conducted from his famous oceanic ship Calypso, were documented and earned him numerous honors and awards. Cousteau was born in1910 in St. Andre-de-Cubzak, France. He attended the Brest Naval Academy andbecame a naval gunnery officer in 1933.
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau died on June 25, 1997, two weeks after his 87th birthday. His inquisitive mind was obvious from an early age. Like many bright and underchallenged children, Cousteau began to get into trouble by the time he reached high school. His parents were able to send him to an excellent boarding school where, apparently, he found more things to entertain himself. After graduation from the boarding school, he entered the Naval Academy in Brest, France.
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born in St. André de Cubzac, France, in 1910, and entered the French Naval Academy in 1930. From 1933 to 1935, he served in the Far East, aboard a cruiser and ashore in Shanghai. He trained as a Navy flier until a serious automobile accident ended his aviation career. Then, he tried underwater goggles for the first time, and his future course was set. In 1943, he and Emile Gagnan developed the first regulated compressed-air breathing device for sustained, unencumbered diving, called SCUBA. After World War II, he created and organized, with Commander Philippe Tailliez and Frederic Dumas, an underwater research unit to carry out technical experiments and laboratory studies in diving.
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