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National Geographic

Cousteau: From man to legend

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

BIRTH

DIPLOMA

Exam for the Naval Academy

STUDIES

Rouen, Bordeaux, New York and Paris

June 11th 1910 in Gironde

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

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

"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"

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

• 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

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

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

CALYPSO

SUBMARINE COLONY

• 1962 in London
• 2 men in underwater capsule

• stop collaborating with oil researchers

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

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

POLLUTION

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

2048

June 25, 1997

1992

Antarctic Treaty

Death

End of his life

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro

THANKS!