Jacques Yves Cousteau was born on June 11th' 1910 in Saint-Andre-de-Dubzac France. His father was a legal advisor and was fascinated with people like Thomas Edison and his inventions like the light bulb. His mother was a housewife with rich parents. They both had large expectations for their newborn son.
             Jacques grew up in Andre-de-Dubzac and had many friends. He loved machines and the water in his youth, two things which would be very important in his later years. At the age of 11 he built a battery operated car and a movie camera.
             He was infatuated with water after attending a camp at the age of four. He learned to swim, exercise and train. He loved everything about the water. He loved being in it watching it and even thinking about it. He said he loved the physical feeling even more than anything else about it.
             When he was 12 he was sent to a summer camp of in the French countryside. He was very pleased when he found out that there was a lake for swimming in. But when he arrived all the boys told him that he couldn't swim in the lake because there was a big tree branch that had fell in a after a thunder storm that you could get tangled in and drown. The next day Jacques woke up early and but on his bathing suit. He jumped in the brisk water of the lake and dove to the bottom. Sure enough there was a branch on the bottom, which would hurt very badly to jump on and get stuck in. It took him about half an hour, but he got the branch out and when the other boys woke up the found him exhausted sitting on the log.
             This act had made him a hero with the other boys and they played in the lake all day long. It was this kind of courage and determination that led him to be such an influential person. He explored parts of the sea that no one had ever before.
             Once Jacques was sent to public high school he was almost immediately kicked out. The teachers said that he was a constant disruption and was dumb. However he was just...