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Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, scientist, inventor, filmmaker, photographer, innovator, conservationist, author, and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, ("SCUBA"), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries. He also pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. From 1966 to 1976, he hosted The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, a documentary television series, presented on American commercial television stations. A second documentary series, The Cousteau Odyssey, ran from 1977 to 1982 on public television stations. In his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure, he surmised the existence of the echolocation abilities of porpoises. The book was adapted into an underwater documentary called The Silent World. Co-directed by Cousteau and Louis Malle, it was one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to document the ocean depths in color. The film won the 1956 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and remained the only documentary to do so until 2004 (when Fahrenheit 9/11 received the award). It was also awarded the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On screen

  • Becoming Cousteau
  • Shipwrecked on a Great Lake
  • My Father the Captain: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
  • Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Lake Baikal: Pearl of Siberia
  • Titanic's Lost Sister
  • 30 Years of National Geographic Specials
  • The Cousteau Collection N°42-1 | Desert Diamonds: South Africa (Part 1)
  • The Cousteau Collection N°14-1 | Australia: The People of Water and Fire
  • The Cousteau Collection N°11-1 | Scandal in Valdez
  • The Cousteau Collection N°16-1 | Strait Islands: The Waters of Discord
  • The Cousteau Collection N°21-1 | A Reluctant Ally: The Mississippi (Part 1)
  • The Cousteau Collection N°20-1 | Alcyone: Daughter of the Wind
  • Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years
  • The Cousteau Collection N°19-1 | Amazon: Snowstorm in the Jungle
  • The Cousteau Collection N°17-2 | Amazon: The Enchanted River
  • The Cousteau Collection N°17-1 | Amazon: In the Land of a Thousand Rivers
  • The Cousteau Collection N°18-1 | Fleeing Shadows: Indians of the Amazon
  • St. Lawrence: Stairway to the Sea
  • Cries from the Deep
  • The Cousteau Collection N°37-1 | Warm Blood in the Sea
  • The Cousteau Collection N°36-1 | Clipperton: Island of Solitude
  • The Cousteau Collection N°8-2 | In Search of Atlantis (Part 2)
  • The Cousteau Collection N°8-1 | In Search of Atlantis (Part 1)
  • The Cousteau Collection N°11-2 | Ultimatum Under the Sea
  • The Cousteau Collection N°23-1 | The Easter Island Testament
  • Calypso's Search for the Britannic
  • Voyage to the Edge of the World
  • The Cousteau Collection N°1-2 | Sleeper Sharks of the Yucatan
  • An Evening with John Denver
  • The Cousteau Collection N°5-1 | Life Under an Ocean of Ice
  • The Cousteau Collection N°4-2 | The Flight of the Penguin
  • The Cousteau Collection N°9-2 | Morse's Smile
  • The Cousteau Collection N°6-1 | Hippo, Hippo
  • The Cousteau Collection N°26-1 | 500 Million Years Under the Sea
  • The Cousteau Collection N°7-1 | Octopus, Little Octopus
  • The Cousteau Collection N°2-1 | The Song of the Dolphins
  • The Cousteau Collection N°12-1 | The Dragons of the Galapagos
  • The Cousteau Collection N°31-1 | The Fate of Sea Otters
  • The Cousteau Collection N°15-1 | The Lagoon of Lost Ships
  • The Cousteau Collection N°7-2 | The Night of the Squid
  • The Cousteau Collection N°3-1 | Desert Whales
  • The Cousteau Collection N°34-1 | The Legend of Lake Titicaca
  • The Cousteau Collection N°35-1 | The Sharks
  • The Cousteau Collection N°32-1 | The Precontinent Adventure (Precontinent III)
  • World Without Sun
  • The Silent World
  • Shipwrecks
  • At a Depth of Eighteen Meters

Behind the camera

  • Lake Baikal: Pearl of Siberia
  • The Cousteau Collection N°42-1 | Desert Diamonds: South Africa (Part 1)
  • The Cousteau Collection N°21-1 | A Reluctant Ally: The Mississippi (Part 1)
  • The Cousteau Collection N°19-1 | Amazon: Snowstorm in the Jungle
  • St. Lawrence: Stairway to the Sea
  • The Cousteau Collection N°37-1 | Warm Blood in the Sea
  • Cries from the Deep
  • The Cousteau Collection N°36-1 | Clipperton: Island of Solitude
  • The Cousteau Collection N°8-2 | In Search of Atlantis (Part 2)
  • The Cousteau Collection N°8-1 | In Search of Atlantis (Part 1)
  • Calypso's Search for the Britannic
  • Voyage to the Edge of the World
  • The Cousteau Collection N°4-2 | The Flight of the Penguin
  • The Cousteau Collection N°5-1 | Life Under an Ocean of Ice
  • The Cousteau Collection N°6-1 | Hippo, Hippo
  • World Without Sun
  • The Sunken Galley
  • The Silent World
  • Danger Under the Sea
  • Diving Logs
  • Shipwrecks
  • At a Depth of Eighteen Meters

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