He was also known as " le Commandant Cousteau " or " Captain Cousteau ".

After the armistice of 1940, the family of Simone and Jacques-Yves Cousteau took refuge in Megève, where he became a friend of the Ichac family who also lived there.

** Air Liquide builds two more aqualungs: there were now three, owned by Cousteau but also at the disposal of his first two diving companions Frédéric Dumas and Taillez.

In the same district, there is also another ecological research station under the patronage of UNESCO – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, belonging to the University of Bucharest, which also includes a museum of Bucegi Mountains fauna in a laboratory for nature protection.

John Denver's song " Calypso " as also a tribute to Cousteau and his work.

The last track En Attendant Cousteau was also used in the soundtrack to a documentary entitled " Palawan: Le Dernier Refuge " by oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

The huge Titicaca Water Frog ( T. culeus ), made famous by Jacques Cousteau, also faces these risks.

From 1945 to 1965, Dumas was also a civilian collaborator in the French Navy's Groupement de Recherches Sous-marines ( GRS or Underwater Research Group ), which was set up by Cousteau and Taillez.

Will Steger joins Amelia Earhart, Robert Peary, Roald Amundsen and Jacques-Yves Cousteau in receiving the National Geographic Society's John Oliver La Gorce Medal for " accomplishments in geographic exploration, in the sciences, and for public service to advance international understanding " in 1995.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (; commonly known in English as Jacques Cousteau ; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997 ) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.

Having kept bonds with the English speakers ( he spent part of his childhood in the United States and usually spoke English ) and with French soldiers in North Africa ( under Admiral Lemonnier ), Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( whose villa " Baobab " at Sanary ( Var ) was opposite Admiral Darlan's villa " Reine "), helped the French Navy to join again with the Allies ; he assembled a commando operation against the Italian espionage services in France, and received several military decorations for his deeds.

In 1946, Cousteau and Tailliez showed the film " Épaves " to Admiral Lemonnier, and the admiral gave them the responsibility of setting up the Groupement de Recherches Sous-marines ( GRS ) ( Underwater Research Group ) of the French Navy in Toulon.

In 1949, Cousteau left the French Navy.

Romanovsky and other French scientists, including Louis Fage and Jacques Cousteau, repudiated the claim, saying that Romanovsky had in mind a much smaller amount.

The Cousteau Society and its French counterpart, l ' Équipe Cousteau, both of which Jacques-Yves Cousteau founded, are still active today.

During the 1930s French pioneers Philippe Tailliez and Jacques-Yves Cousteau used and widely tested the Le Prieur apparatus before Émile Gagnan and Cousteau worked together on the invention of the modern regulator in 1943.

In the 90's, Vangelis scored a number of undersea documentaries for French ecologist and filmmaker, Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

* June 11 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and researcher ( d. 1997 )

The Admiral makes then Cousteau responsible for the creation of the underwater research unit of the French Navy ( the GRS, Groupe de Recherches Sous-marines, nowadays called the CEPHISMER ).

Émile Gagnan ( November 1900 – 1979 ) was a French engineer and co-inventor ( together with French Navy diver Jacques-Yves Cousteau ) of the diving regulator ( a. k. a. demand-valve ) used for the first Scuba equipment (" Aqua-Lung ") in 1943.

In addition, and most importantly, the Aqua-Lung could be mounted on stronger and reliable air tanks holding up to 200 atmospheres ,< ref > Cousteau quickly describes the two Aqua-Lung prototypes used to shoot the film Épaves in 1943 Check here, on minute 3 ' 55 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, when Cousteau mentions his cylinders ' highest pressure ( in French ).</ ref > allowing extension of diving duration to more than an hour at significant depths ( including the needed time for decompression stops ).

The French and pioneer electronic musician Jean Michel Jarre released an album in 1990 called Waiting for Cousteau.

* Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( 1910 – 1997 ) – French naval officer, explorer and early underwater pioneer.

* Haroun Tazieff, advisor to the French Government and Jacques Cousteau

He is known for his long-running-role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the television series of the same name, as well as the live-action character Patchy the Pirate, Gary the Snail and the French narrator based on Jacques Cousteau.

He worked as the co-director and cameraman to Jacques Cousteau on the Oscar and Palme d ' Or-winning ( at the 1956 Academy Awards and Cannes Film Festival respectively ) documentary The Silent World ( 1956 ) and assisted Robert Bresson on A Man Escaped ( French title: Un condamné à mort s ' est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut, 1956 ) before making his first feature, Ascenseur pour l ' échafaud ( released in the U. K. as Lift to the Scaffold and in the U. S. originally as Frantic, later as Elevator to the Gallows ) in 1957.

* Calypso – research vessel of Jacques-Yves Cousteau ; the ex-Royal Navy BYMS-class vessel J826

Cousteau was born on 11 June 1910, in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France to Daniel and Élisabeth Cousteau.

In Toulon, where he was serving on the Condorcet, Cousteau carried out his first underwater experiments, thanks to his friend Philippe Tailliez who in 1936 lent him some Fernez underwater goggles, predecessors of modern swimming goggles.

Cousteau was not satisfied with the length of time he could spend underwater with the Le Prieur apparatus so he improved it to extend underwater duration by adding a demand regulator, invented in 1942 by Émile Gagnan.

Cousteau concluded that the cetaceans had something like sonar, which was a relatively new feature on submarines.

Three years after the volcano's last eruption, on 19 December 1973, the Cousteau team was filming on Deception Island, Antarctica when Michel Laval, Calypsos second in command, was struck and killed by a propeller of the helicopter that was ferrying between Calypso and the island.

Cousteau was deeply affected.

In November 1991, Cousteau gave an interview to the UNESCO courier, in which he stated that he was in favour of human population control and population decrease.

Despite persistent rumors, encouraged by some Islamic publications and websites, Cousteau did not convert to Islam, and when he died he was buried in a Roman Catholic Christian funeral.

An homage was paid to him by the city by the inauguration of a " rue du Commandant Cousteau ", a street which runs out to his native house, where a commemorative plaque was affixed.

Gagnan's boss and owner of the Air Liquide company, Henri Melchior, decided to introduce Gagnan to Jacques-Yves Cousteau, his son-in-law, because he already knew that Cousteau was looking for an efficient and automatic demand regulator.

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.

The two-hose design originally used was the one designed by Cousteau and Gagnan.

Broussard was one of the first men who Cousteau trained in the GRS.

** A report to Cousteau said that only 10 aqualung sets had been sent to the USA because the market there was saturated.