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Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Cousteau: From man to legend

National Geographic

June 11th 1910 in Gironde

Rouen, Bordeaux, New York and Paris

STUDIES

Exam for the Naval Academy

DIPLOMA

BIRTH

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

• Naval Academy → Airplane pilot
• Car accident → "good opportunity"
• Frederic Dumas + Phillipe Tailliez → Les 3 mousquemers
• Revelation for the ocean

"Diving is the most wonderful distraction one can know. I'm miserable out of the water, it's like being shown the sky, then forced back to land"

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

• Cousteau + Emile Gagnan → scuba suit with regulator
• Underwater Research Group → bodies of sailors and pilots

CALYPSO

• 1951 → Cousteau's first expedition on his new boat
• At the beginning → using dynamite, taking pieces of coral
• participate in the search for oil → Abu Dhabi

CALYPSO

• loves filming
• very powerful underwater camera
• "The silent World" in 1956

• "Our films are not documentaries, they are real adventure films"
• Palme d'Or in Cannes

• 1962 in London
• 2 men in underwater capsule

SUBMARINE COLONY

• stop collaborating with oil researchers

• signs a contract with the TV
• "We must go and see for ourselves"
• 52 one-hour films for TV

POLLUTION

• a witness of change
• fight to protect what we love
• 1971 → speak to the President of the USA
• areas polluted by toxic products

• 1975 → expedition to Antarctica
• 1979 → son and successor Philippe Cousteau died
• 1981 → the Cousteau Society
• Antarctica → protected for 50 years

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro

End of his life

Death

Antarctic Treaty

June 25, 1997

2048

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