Jacques Cousteau

Many people know that the earth is covered with water. In fact, 3/4 of the earth is water.

The major oceans (i.e. Atlantic, Indian, etc.) are salt water. We can't drink salt water.

Sadly enough, we are destroying our oceans and various other parts of our precious earth.

But there are people out there who commit their lives to preserving the earth. One man in specific

has accomplished such a thing. He has worked to preserve the oceans and the rest of the marine

world from our destruction. He has used modern technology and has written several books to try to

make the people of earth better understand the gentle world beneath the water and to prevent it from

being destroyed. This man is Jacques Cousteau.

Jacques Cousteau was born on June 11th, 1910 in St.-André-de-Cubzac, France. Jacques was

always interested with water in his youth. When Cousteau was 10, he visited the U.S. where he spent

several months in New York City which included time playing stickball with the neighborhood children.

He left the U.S. with a sense of wonderment about the high technology of this country.

In his early teen years, he began fulfilling his fascinations with his interests in machines and in film

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After swimming in the water every

day, he proved the doctors wrong. Cousteau will probably best be remembered for his strong commitment to the marine

environment and his use of his television series to promote better understanding of the undersea world. After his recovery, Cousteau's shipmates gave a pair of watertight

goggles so he could swim underwater. He got

involved in an accident in which doctors said that he would never be able to use his left arm again. Upon graduation, he applied for and was accepted

into the Ecole Navale* at the age of 19. In fact, the popular sport of scuba diving

would obviously not be possible without the development of the aqualung. Cousteau's books and films

have delighted readers and viewers for many decades now and will continue to do so for many years

into the future. His work has spawned many books including The Silent World written with Frederick

Dumas in 1953 which received critical acclaim. Two

years later, Cousteau was called to fight in World War II.

Cousteau's devotion to the protection of the ocean and its life forms inspired him to develop the

Cousteau Society which currently has over 300,000 members worldwide. One of his early accomplishments were building a battery-operated car at 13. Use of the aqualung and Bathyscaphe has

greatly enhanced the ability of researches all over the world.

Cousteau's best work and accomplishments have come from his explorations of the undersea world

on the Calypso.

Following completion in the Academy, he entered the French Navy as a midshipman.

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