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CAPTAIN JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU |
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Jacques-Yves…
Cousteau has been called the "explorer of the world of silence".
He invented SCUBA and pioneered unaided deep sea diving and underwater photography.
He was born in 1910 and died in 1997.
The public owes most of its knowledge of ocean life to the television programmes of Jacques Cousteau., which revealed the treasures of the deep to the entire world.
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Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau left his mark forever on the planet and the oceans.
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. The films of Calypso's adventures drew the public's attention to the potentially disastrous environmental consequences of human negligence.
Cousteau, through his life and his work, was a major player in the environmental movement. |
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