Cousteau, Jacques-Yves

Cousteau, Jacques-Yves (1910-1997), French underwater explorer.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, an officer in the French Navy, invented the aqualung for skin-diving in 1943.

In 1945 he founded the French Navy's Undersea Research Group and since then he has taken part in many underwater expeditions and experiments.

Three-quarters of the surface of the Earth is covered by water, and Cousteau and his teams investigated the ways in which this can be turned to man's benefit.

They lived for one month under the Red Sea, and they were interested in such possibilities as sea farming.

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