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	Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France to Daniel Cousteau (a lawyer) and Elizabeth Cousteau.
		Cousteau was born in Saint André de Cubzac, France to Daniel and Elizabeth Cousteau on June 11, 1910 and died in Paris, France.
		In 1957, Cousteau was made director of the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco, created the Underseas Research Group in Toulon, was the leader of the Conshelf Saturation Dive Program (long-term immersion experiments, the first manned undersea colonies) and was one of the few foreigners who has been admitted to the American Academy of Sciences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacques-Yves_Cousteau (1098 words)

	jacques cousteau
		Jacques Yves Cousteau was born in 1910 and died in 1997.
		Jacques-Yves Cousteau had a privileged background because his father was the lawyer for an American billionaire.
		From then on, Cousteau was able to make dive after dive with the aid of his invention, filming shipwrecks from the war for the French Navy, or ancient wrecks for his own pleasure as amateur archaeologist.
	www.terrace.qld.edu.au /academic/lote/french/yr5cous.htm (607 words)

	Cousteau, Jacques
		Jacques Cousteau is television's most celebrated maker and presenter of documentaries about the underwater world.
		Cousteau was the virtual creator of the underwater documentary, having helped to develop the world's first aqualung diving apparatus in 1943, while a lieutenant in the French Navy, and having pioneered the process of underwater television.
		The appeal of Cousteau's films was not limited to the subject matter, for Cousteau's narrative, delivered in his distinctive nasal unremittingly French accent, was part of the character of his work.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/C/htmlC/cousteaujac/cousteaujac.htm (676 words)

	SPECTRUM Biographies - Jacques Cousteau
		Jacques-Yves was born in Saint-Andre-de-Dubzac, France, to Daniel and Elizabeth Cousteau on June 11, 1910.
		Cousteau was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan in 1985 and in 1989, he was honored by France with membership in the French Academy.
		Cousteau was named a capitaine de corvette of the French navy in 1948, and two years later he became president of the French Oceanographic Campaigns.
	www.incwell.com /Biographies/Cousteau.html (533 words)

	Jacques Cousteau dead at 87
		Cousteau liked to call himself an "oceanographic technician." But he was also a romantic who once said that for him, water was the ultimate symbol of love.
		Cousteau, whose name was synonymous worldwide with marine exploration, was also one of the most beloved personalities in France.
		Cousteau's 60-year-long odyssey with the Earth's seas -- much of it on his boat the Calypso -- was more than a great adventure.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/97/06/25/cousteau.html (943 words)

	The My Hero Project - Jacques Cousteau
		Jacques Cousteau left two worlds behind in June, 1997: the dry world populated by his family, friends and group of admirers, and the ocean, populated by its various mysterious denizens.
		As admirers of Jacques Cousteau’s world, perhaps the best way to honor his great legacy is to continue to respect the rights of the ocean life he championed, so that it will continue to be there for future generations.
		Of the 120 documentaries Cousteau completed in his lifetime, one of his most important was "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau," a television series which began in 1968.
	www.myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=cousteau (944 words)

	Jacques Yves Cousteau at 85
		Jacques Cousteau: Yes, it is true that it exploded stronger in the U.S. than elsewhere, but it was not in the United States that it originated.
		The highlights of Jacques Cousteau's life are hardly a mystery; every schoolkid knows about his World War II Resistance work, his invention of the aqualung, his pioneering underwater photography, his famous TV program The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau (1968-1976), his environmental activism and his many awards and prizes.
		Less well known, perhaps, is Cousteau's irascible nature, which has led to occasional breaks with his family (he recently filed legal papers against his son Jean-Michel in a dispute over a resort in Fiji), and to devil's advocate positions in interviews like this one.
	www.ecomall.com /activism/emag.htm (2382 words)

	Jacques Cousteau dead at 87
		Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born on June 11, 1910, in Saint-Andre-de-Cubzac, a small town near Bordeaux, and raised in Paris by an upper middle-class family.
		Jacques Cousteau, the ageless old man of the seas who first invented ways for men and women to live beneath the water and then took the rest of the human race there vicariously via his spectacular films and television documentaries, died Wednesday in Paris.
		Cousteau's other son, Jean-Michel, is a renowned conservationist, but a dispute over lending the Cousteau name to a Fijian resort soured their relationship.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/97/06/26/cousteau.2-0.html (788 words)

	Jacques-Yves Cousteau
		Jacques Cousteau had a deep devotion to the ocean for many years.
		Cousteau bettered the oceanographic studies and will always be remembered despite the fact that he died on June 25, 1997 at the age of 87.
		Cousteau had a famous television series as well as movies and documentaries that were a "first of their kind".
	helios.acomp.usf.edu /~jjgross/bio.html (292 words)

	Jacques-Yves Cousteau
		The driver was Jacques-Yves Cousteau, co-inventor of the aqualung and to many the father of modern sport diving.
		Cousteau's father-in-law realised that Emile Gagnan, the engineer in charge of those experiments, was working on a valve similar to one that Cousteau now wished to develop, as a means of breathing compressed air, rather than oxygen, under water.
		Cousteau's relationships with his relatives, human and animal, may have been contentious, but he produced one of the most successful documentary series in the history of television.
	www.dolphinscuba.ukdiver.com /jyc.htm (3669 words)

	Cousteau, Jacques Yves on Encyclopedia.com
		COUSTEAU, JACQUES YVES [Cousteau, Jacques Yves], 1910-97, French oceanographer and naval officer.
		(Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanógrafo francés, tenía planeado participar en la limpia de las costas libanesas)(TT: The last of Cousteau) (TA: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French oceanographer, had planned to participate in the cleaning of the Lebanese coasts)
		Jacques Cousteau remembered for his legacy of environmental stewardship.(Originated from The Virgini...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Cousteau.asp (397 words)

	A Tribute To Jacques Yves Cousteau
		Jacques Yves Cousteau gave so much of his life to invention and discovery to create a path for all to follow.
		Jacques Cousteau was a great man who opened the doors to a whole new world.
		I had always viewed Jacques Cousteau a great pioneer that opened the doors to ocean exploration but I now have come to see him as an idle; a magnificent savior that unleashed the wonderful powers of the ocean floor.
	members.tripod.com /~SteveKosko/index-2.html (3905 words)

	Untitled Document
		f you're a Babyboomer or older, there's a good chance that you know about Jean Jacques Cousteau from watching his television series, THE UNDERSEA WORLD OF This weekly series ran for eight years beginning in 1968.
		Cousteau, with his gift for communication and his lifelong experience as an underwater explorer, may have done more to make us understand the importance of the three-quarters of our planet that is covered with water than any other person who has ever lived.
		Cousteau at 86 has progressed from explorer to environmentalist to what he is today, philosopher.
	www.eggscape.com /cousteau.html (491 words)

	Jacques Yves Cousteau Biography / Biography of Jacques Yves Cousteau History of Invention Biography
		From the late 1950s on, he produced numerous television programs, including The World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the series called The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.
		Cousteau is also known for developing early underwater habitats -- the Conshelf I, II, and III -- located between 33 ft (10 m) and 330 ft (100 m) below the ocean surface, and capable of sheltering people for prolonged periods of time.
		Cousteau was born in 1910 in St. Andre-de-Cubzak, France.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-jacques-yves-cousteau-woi (580 words)

	ISHOF - Jacques Yves Cousteau (FRA) - 1967 Honor Contributor
		Cousteau has made significant contributions to the science of oceanography and to man's own awareness of the world around him, a world and a way of life where learning to swim may be as important as learning to walk.
		Cousteau represents the idea of swimming in its broadest definition, swimming as the mother activity for men who would feed the world from its oceans and mine the ocean bottoms, as well as all the new water sports crazes of a recreation minded society.
		Cousteau's enchantment with the sea began in 1936 when he donned Fenzi goggles and looked under the sea's coverlet into a world as yet undisclosed and unexplored.
	www.ishof.org /67jcousteau.html (918 words)

	Jacques Yves Cousteau: was he a scientist
		Naturally, to Jacques Cousteau, like to Dr. Albert Einstein, imagination was one of the crucial factors in being a scientist and an inventor.
		Thus Cousteau Society joined UNESCO in pursuit of teaching the interdisciplinary approach which, in his firm belief, is the answer to solving our environmental problems.
		With this invention and an underwater camera encased in a lightweight housing Cousteau began his life-long discovery journey of the living oceans and seas.
	www.quasar.ualberta.ca /edse456/apt/vignettes/cousteau.htm (641 words)

	Jacques Cousteau
		Jacques Yves Cousteau was born on June 11, 1910.
		Jacques spent most of his life exploring the sea, or as he would call it "the silent world." Jacques loved to swim, invent, deep dive, explore the sea, and sail.
		Jacques may have died in 1997, but his inventions and discoveries still live on today.
	www.wtisbury.mv.k12.ma.us /projects/bioweb/kim.htm (260 words)

	Jacques Cousteau
		Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born in St. Andre de Cubazac, France in 1910.
		Jacques Cousteau died at the age of eighty-seven.
		Jacques Cousteau has produced more than seventy films for television, films which have won numerous Emmys and other awards.
	www.studyworld.com /newsite/ReportEssay/Biography/FamousPeople/Jacques_Cousteau.htm (538 words)

	Swimming Goggles for the World: Jacques Cousteau
		More recently, Jacques Cousteau has been called into question in pop culture once again, in the form of Wes Anderson’s 2004 film “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.” The title character is a red-knit-cap-wearing, thinly veiled portrayal of Jacques Cousteau, detailing a washed up underwater filmmaker whose integrity in documentary filmmaking is rather suspect.
		Jacques was not a trained scientist; to America, he became an adventurer and television personality, a sensitive guide to an unknown land.
		Cousteau speaks of how fortunate he was to have just such a moment, as a young naval officer.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/l/j/ljr163/cousteau4.html (822 words)

	Jacques Yves Cousteau - the Captain, achievements, inventions and expeditions
		Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau left his mark forever on the planet and the oceans.
		Cousteau, through his life and his work, was a major player in the environmental movement.
		When Cousteau and his teams embarked aboard Calypso to explore the world, no one yet knew about the effects of pollution, over-exploitation of resources and coastal development.
	www.cousteau.org /en/heritage/captain/man.php (83 words)

	Research Starters: Ocean Life
		Cousteau was director of the Oceanographic Museum and Institute in Monaco from 1957 to 1988.
		Cousteau had a strong commitment to the marine environment and used the television medium in recent years to promote a better understanding of the ocean and its life forms.
		In 1936, Cousteau began studies of the ocean environment.
	teacher.scholastic.com /researchtools/researchstarters/oceans/article3.htm (276 words)

	Jacques Yves Cousteau
		Jacques Yves Cousteau was born on June 11, 1910 in the town of Saint Andre-de-Dubzac, France.
		It was tested by Jacques Cousteau himself, Philippe Tailliez, and Frederick Dumas at 210 ft.(68 m.) underwater.
		Cousteau invented the Aqualung which was easy to use scuba system.
	www.sd104.s-cook.k12.il.us /students/oreyes-cousteau.html (144 words)

	Undersea Explorers - EnchantedLearning.com
		Jacques Ernest-Jean Piccard (1922-) is a Swiss ocean explorer and scientist who was the first person to go to the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean.
		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.
		Cousteau traveled the world's oceans in his research vessel "Calypso," beginning in 1948.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/ocean/explorers.shtml (560 words)

	DIRECTOR GENERAL EXPRESSES SORROW AT DEATH OF JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU{25 June 1997}
		Extending his condolences to Mr Cousteau’s family and colleagues, the Director-General declared: "Jacques-Yves Cousteau taught us more than almost anyone about the oceans he loved and understood at a time when few were aware of their essential role in maintaining the ecological balance of our planet.
		Mr Cousteau initiated and led a major campaign in which he collected more than five million signatures from around the world in support of an international declaration on the rights of future generations.
		Mr Cousteau played a guiding role in developing the UNESCO-Cousteau Ecotechnie Programme (UCEP), founded in 1994 to train researchers and decision-makers through transdisciplinary curricula combining ecological, economic, social, cultural and technological studies.
	ioc.unesco.org /iyo/newsdesk/97-99e.htm (316 words)

	Cousteau, Jacques-Yves
		In June 1943 Cousteau made his first dive with it, achieving a depth of 18 m/60 ft.
		Together, Gagnan and Cousteau developed a self-contained compressed air ‘lung’, the aqualung.
		Testing new breathing equipment, Cousteau was several times nearly killed.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0007833.html (329 words)

	Article - Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Calypso - presented by ©NewsFinder.Org - All Rights Reserved
		Jacques Cousteau and his wife Simone also devoted a major part of their personal resources to the ship.
		To Cousteau, she was the ideal ship for his plan to explore the seas.
		Cousteau came back convinced that there was only one solution for understanding the sea: " We must go see for ourselves.
	www.newsfinder.org /comments.php?id=756_0_1_0_M (1170 words)

	A Tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau
		Jacques-Yves Cousteau brought us all a rich knowledge about the diverse eco-systems beneath the earths surface.We all are living a legacy this wonderful man brought up from the depths of his soul as well as from beneath the sea.
		In 1968 he began filming The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau which became a popular series for television world wide.
		Jacques you opened my heart, mind and soul early in the 1980's to the plight of the dolphins, whales and seals and the importance of saving our precious oceans.
	www.weburbia.com /pg/cousteau.htm (1807 words)

	Jacques Cousteau - Environmentalists on Stamps
		Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997) was the world-renowned oceanographer who sailed the seas on the research ship Calypso, televising his adventures for a global audience.
		He has undoubtedly done more than anyone to bring attention to the need to preserve and protect the world's oceans.
	www.planetaryexploration.net /patriot/stamps/cousteau_jacques_stamps.html (43 words)

	About The Cousteau Society
		Not so important are the awards Jacques Cousteau has received, but the environmental consciousness he has helped to raise around the world.
		Jacques Cousteau founded the Society in the U.S. in 1973.
		The Cousteau Society is an organization that serves to raise funds for ocean exploration, research, and conservation.
	www.math.clemson.edu /~rsimms/cousteau (1230 words)

	Statement by Bruce Alberts on Jacques Yves Cousteau
		Jacques Cousteau had a rare combination of talents -- a great scientific intellect coupled with an ability to enchant the public with compelling stories of the planet's ocean life.
		A passionate oceanographer with deep concern for the world environment, Capt. Cousteau contributed greatly to our understanding of the impact humans have on environmental processes.
		When I met with him in 1993, I was immediately struck by his unique vision and energy.
	www4.nationalacademies.org /news.nsf/isbn/s06251997?OpenDocument (120 words)

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