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Share results. Play Again Quit. Next Question. See your results. Share Results. Retake The Quiz. A friend, Philippe Tailliez, gave Cousteau a pair of swimming goggles, which opened him to the mysteries of the sea and began his quest to understand the underwater world. In , Cousteau married Simone Melchior. They had two sons, Jean-Michel and Phillipe.
Both sons, in time, would join their father in underwater world expeditions. Simone died in and one year later, the senior Cousteau married Francine Triplet, with whom he had a daughter and son born while Cousteau was married to Simone. For the first few years of the war, he quietly continued his underwater experiments and explorations. In , he met Emile Gagnan, a French engineer who shared his passion for discovery.
Around this time, compressed air cylinders were invented and Cousteau and Gagnan experimented with snorkel hoses, body suits and breathing apparatus. In time, they developed the first aqua-lung device allowing divers to stay underwater for long periods of time. Cousteau was also instrumental in the development of a waterproof camera that could withstand the high pressure of deep water. During the war, Cousteau joined the French Resistance movement, spying on Italian armed forces and documenting troop movements.
Cousteau was recognized for his resistance efforts and awarded several medals, including the Legion of Honor from France. After the war, Cousteau worked with the French navy to clear underwater mines. Between missions, he continued his underwater explorations performing various tests and filming the underwater excursions.
In , Cousteau, along with Philippe Tailliez and expert divers and academic scientists, undertook an underwater expedition in the Mediterranean Sea to find the Roman shipwreck Mahdia. This was the first underwater archaeology operation using self-contained diving apparatus and marked the beginning of underwater archeology. In , Cousteau leased a one-time British minesweeper and converted it into an oceanographic research vessel he named Calypso.
After struggling for financing to conduct his voyages, Cousteau soon realized he needed to attract media attention to make people aware of what he was doing and why it was so important. In , he published the book The Silent World, which was later made into an award-winning film. This success allowed him to finance another expedition to the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean sponsored by the French government and the National Geographic Society.
In an hour, Cousteau and his men would answer it. For instance, are sharks the vicious killers everybody thinks they are? Or how do the creatures of the coral reef depend upon one another for survival? It was about informing them. He used each episode to tell a story with a moral. Fred Rogers had used his groundbreaking program, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood , to influence our understanding of children and their needs.
He implored humankind to stop destroying the planet in the name of progress. And, as he noted, all forms of pollution eventually end up in the ocean. The reason is very simple. People have thought that the legendary immensity of the ocean was such that man could do nothing against such a gigantic force. Well, now we know that the size of the ocean, although it covers a great amount of surface, the real volume of the ocean is very small compared to the volume of the earth.
In publication, in conferences, in international units the matters are generally divided into air pollution, land pollution and water pollution. In fact, there is only one pollution because every single thing, every chemical whether in the air or on land will end up in the ocean. The goal of this society would be to save and protect marine life.
It provided a platform for Cousteau and his supporters to conduct marine research, especially underwater exploration and filmmaking. In the s, The Cousteau Society fundamentally changed the power balance in the environmental movement.
A proliferation of organizations followed such as The Sierra Club, Greenpeace and dozens of other international, national and local groups. Together these groups created a landscape of advocacy in which they succeeded in fund-raising with single issue campaigns such as the slaughter of baby seals for their fur, overfishing, nuclear energy, destructive mining practices and ocean pollution. To his disappointment, Jacques Cousteau discovered that the major networks had a limited appetite for his type of hard-hitting television specials.
Looking for the funding and the freedom to continue producing the type of programs which appealed to him, Cousteau found an unlikely ally in Ted Turner. Cousteau wanted to produce television specials examining the growing environmental threat to the planet.
If there is a father, it is Jacques Cousteau. In the s, Jacques Cousteau undertook what was arguably his most ambitious television series. Rather than explore the creatures of the deep, Cousteau turned his filmmaking talents towards educating human beings on their impact on the underwater world.
But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work. Throughout the series, his emphasis was on the unfolding tragedy of human interaction with the environment. The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. Cousteau increasingly spent more and more time sounding the alarm about the deterioration of the oceans.
He used his international celebrity to appeal to all nations to work together to control population, abolish weapons of mass destruction and move towards clean and renewable sources of energy. He inspired a generation to take up scuba diving, to marvel at the beauty of the undersea world, and to become aware of the man-made problems which threaten their existence. With the development of the Aqua-Lung, Cousteau solidified his reputation in the history of ocean exploration.
It was the first self-contained underwater breathing apparatus. Now divers are able to explore the ocean freely. Cousteau was one of the first to popularize theories of conservationism. He had the courage to tell us that human beings are damaging the planet.
Cousteau was granted membership to the French Academy in We must plan long-term. Accordingly, to save it for our distant children, we must establish four priorities. The first one is peace.
We know it is difficult, but there must be ways to live in peace other than leaving it in the hands of governments. The second priority is limiting our own numbers. Rich nations have stable populations. Poor nations are a time bomb. The third priority is education. If we want to do something for peace and population, for the Third World and the environment, we have to demonstrate the problem. The fourth priority is the environment. Each one of us must do something to fight for peace, for better cooperation among people, for education and the environment.
French naval officer, oceanographer, researcher, scientist, conservationist, filmmaker, and undersea explorer. Internationally famous documentary host and creator of the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.
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