jacques cousteau

     

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer an 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. He was commonly known as Jacques Cousteau or Captain Cousteau.

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  • In 1999 in Norfolk, the Virginia Symphony premiered Steve Heitzeg's "Aqua", an homage to this man
  • He took his ship, the Calypso, up the Amazon on a research expedition
  • "Colors of the Sea" features underwater photos with text from the society named for this Calypso skipper
  • In the 1970s this oceanographer produced 40 one-hour TV shows while traveling the world aboard the Calypso
  • This French explorer devised special underwater cameras to document his adventures
  • In 1957 he became director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco
  • This fr. undersea explorer has won Oscars for his films "The Silent World" & "World Without Sun"
  • One of Louis Malle's first jobs in filmmaking was an assistant to this marine explorer
  • "The Undersea World of" this marine explorer was a television fixture from 1968 to 1976
  • He & Emile Gagnan perfected the tank of air with a pressure-regulating valve worn by divers
  • In 1943 this undersea explorer produced his first film, "Par Dix-huit Metres du Fond", or "18 Meters Down"

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