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unusual facts about Cousteau


Cousteau

Jacques Cousteau Island, the new name of Cerralvo Island, a Mexican Island of the Baja California Sur


Barbara Simpson

She was the Public Relations Director for The Cousteau Society where Simpson worked with Captain Jacques Cousteau, coordinating media and the worldwide petition campaign.

Costa Del Mar

The company provided sunglasses to Jacques Cousteau and the Cousteau Society, and lenses for the team-issue frames of the F-16C Eastern Demo Team.

Da Hood

Mack 10 Presents da Hood is a collaboration album by American rappers: Mack 10, Deviossi, Skoop Delania, K-Mac, Cousteau and Techniec.

Mollard

Jean Mollard, a French engineer who invented with Jacques-Yves Cousteau the SP-350 Denise "Diving saucer"

Philippe Cousteau

In the aftermath of aquanaut Berry L. Cannon's death while attempting to repair a leak in SEALAB III, Cousteau volunteered to dive down to SEALAB and help return it to the surface, although SEALAB was ultimately salvaged in a less hazardous way.

Philippe Tailliez

He was awarded, again together with Cousteau and Dumas, the CIDALC Prize at the 1946 Cannes Film Festival for their film Epaves (shipwrecks).

Scuba set

To sell his regulator in English-speaking countries Cousteau coined the Aqua-Lung label, which was first licensed to the U.S. Divers company (the American division of Air Liquide in the USA) and later sold alongside with La Spirotechnique and U.S. Divers to finally constitute the name of the company itself, Aqua-Lung/La Spirotechnique, nowadays sited in Carros, near Nice.

SP350

SP-350 Denise, a small submarine designed to hold two people capable of exploring depths of up to 400 metres invented by Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The Silent World

Cousteau later became more environmentally conscious, involved in marine conservation, and was even, ironically, called "the father of the environmental movement" by Ted Turner.

Thomas J. Abercrombie

Other notable coverage includes his photographs of Jacques Cousteau and his crew aboard Cousteau's vessel the Calypso and the transit of the first white tiger from India to the United States.

Walter Scharf

He received two Emmys for the Cousteau series, in 1970 and 1974, and composed an original symphonic work, The Legend of the Living Sea, for a Cousteau museum exhibit aboard the RMS Queen Mary in 1971.


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