Namale Resort hosts regular seminars in the Tony Robins Life Mastery programme ; the Jean Michel Cousteau Resort is one of the few 5 star resorts to offer a children ’ s camp ; Daku Resort runs a programme of learning holidays in art, yoga, singing snorkeling and birdwatching throughout the year.

Not knowing this, Frédéric Dumas ( a close friend of Cousteau ) reached a depth of 62 metres off Les Goudes, not far from Marseille, in October 1943 with a Cousteau-Gagnan prototype.

*" Calypso ", a song from Jean-Michel Jarre's album Waiting for Cousteau ( 1990 )

Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Marcel Ichac shared the same desire to reveal to the general public unknown and inaccessible places — for Cousteau the underwater world and for Ichac the high mountains.

When making Épaves, Cousteau could not find the necessary blank reels of movie film, but had to buy hundreds of small still camera film reels the same width, intended for a make of child's camera, and cemented them together to make long reels.

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.

Cousteau refitted the Calypso as a mobile laboratory for field research and as his principal vessel for diving and filming.

Cousteau won the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1956 for The Silent World co-produced with Louis Malle.

In 1973, along with his two sons and Frederick Hyman, he created the Cousteau Society for the Protection of Ocean Life, Frederick Hyman being its first President ; it now has more than 300, 000 members.

In June 1990, the composer Jean Michel Jarre paid homage to the commander by entitling his new album Waiting for Cousteau.

In his last years, after marrying again, Cousteau became involved in a legal battle with his son Jean-Michel over Jean-Michel licensing the Cousteau name for a South Pacific resort, resulting in Jean-Michel Cousteau being ordered by the court not to encourage confusion between his for-profit business and his father's non-profit endeavours.

Open circuit demand scuba is a 1943 invention by the Frenchmen Émile Gagnan and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, but in the English language Lambertsen's acronym has become common usage and the name Aqua-Lung, ( often spelled " aqualung "), coined by Cousteau for use in English-speaking countries, has fallen into secondary use.

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.

After World War II, military frogmen of all countries continued to use rebreathers ( since they do not make bubbles and thus are not visible from the surface ) and Air Liquide started selling commercially the Cousteau-Gagnan regulator as of 1946 under the name of scaphandre Cousteau-Gagnan or CG45 (" C " for Cousteau, " G " for Gagnan and 45 for a new 1945 patent ).

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

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

Edgerton worked with the undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau, by first providing him with custom designed underwater photographic equipment featuring electronic flash, and then by developing sonar techniques used to discover the Britannic.

Cousteau and the Élie Monnier then took part in the rescue of Professor Jacques Piccard's bathyscaphe, the FNRS-2, during the 1949 expedition to Dakar.

He called his then eldest son, the architect Jean-Michel Cousteau, to his side.

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 ).

The Commission consisted of a number of notable persons including Professor Joseph Rotblat, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize ; Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France ; Robert McNamara, former United States Secretary of Defense and President of the World Bank Group ; General George Butler, former Commander of the United States Strategic Air Command ; Doctor Maj Britt Theorin, then President of the International Peace Bureau ; Field Marshal Michael Carver, former Chief of the General Staff and Defence Staff ; Professor Robert O ' Neill, Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford University and former director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies ; and Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer and environmentalist.

Frédéric Dumas then participated with Jacques-Yves Cousteau in the discovery of the underwater world and in bringing it to the attention of the general public.

Such colonies did not find a productive future, however, as Cousteau later repudiated his support for such exploitation of the sea and put his efforts toward conservation.

Gagnan, employee at Air Liquide, had miniaturized and adapted a Rouquayrol-Denayrouze regulator to gas generators ( following severe fuel restrictions due to the German occupation of France ) and Cousteau suggested to adapt it again to diving, which was in 1864 its original purpose.

Cousteau again chose him as an " actor " when he made his second film, " Epaves " (" Wrecks ") in 1943, the first film featuring the new Cousteau-Gagnan aqua-lung.

There have been infrequent scientific and amateur radio expeditions, and in 1978 Jacques-Yves Cousteau visited with his team of divers, plus a survivor from the 1917 evacuation, to film a television special called Clipperton: The Island that Time Forgot.

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.

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

Cousteau completed his preparatory studies at the prestigious Collège Stanislas in Paris.

After an automobile accident cut short his career in naval aviation, Cousteau indulged his interest in the sea.

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.

They already had a daughter Diane Cousteau ( born 1980 ) and a son Pierre-Yves Cousteau ( born 1982 ), born during Cousteau's marriage to his first wife.

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.

These prototypes were made in Boulogne-Billancourt by the Air Liquide company, following instructions from Cousteau and Émile Gagnan.

At that time, he kept his distance from his brother Pierre-Antoine Cousteau, a " pen anti-semite " who wrote the collaborationist newspaper Je suis partout ( I am everywhere ) and who received the death sentence in 1946.

During the 1940s, Cousteau is credited with improving the aqua-lung design which gave birth to the open-circuit scuba technology used today.

According to his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure ( 1953 ), Cousteau started diving with Fernez goggles in 1936, and in 1939 used the self contained underwater breathing apparatus invented in 1926 by Commander Yves le Prieur.

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.

In 1943 Cousteau tried out the first prototype aqua-lung which finally made extended underwater exploration possible.

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 1948, between missions of mine clearance, underwater exploration and technological and physiological tests, Cousteau undertook a first campaign in the Mediterranean on board the sloop Élie Monnier, with Philippe Tailliez, Frédéric Dumas, Jean Alinat and the scenario writer Marcel Ichac.