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

Among the things that prompted Cousteau to develop efficient air-breathing free-swimming diving gear, were two oxygen toxicity accidents that he had in 1939 with rebreathers, the first at 17 metres deep, but those accidents happened because he went too deep with pure oxygen.

** 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.

While creating the GRS, Cousteau only had at his disposal the two remaining Aqua-Lung prototypes made by l ' Air Liquide in 1943.

In honour of her gold medal win in Sydney, she represented Oceania in carrying the Olympic flag at the opening ceremonies of the next Olympics, in Salt Lake City, joining Archbishop Desmond Tutu ( Africa ), John Glenn ( The Americas ), Kazuyoshi Funaki ( Asia ), Lech Wałęsa ( Europe ), Jean-Michel Cousteau ( Environment ), Jean-Claude Killy ( Sport ), and Steven Spielberg ( Culture ).

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 Calypso, the ship used by Jacques-Yves Cousteau as a mobile laboratory for oceanography, and which was sunk after a collision in the port of Singapore ( 1996 ) is now on display ( sadly rotting ) at the Maritime Museum of La Rochelle.

In 2008, Rutgers opened the Cousteau Coastal Center of its Institute of Marine & Coastal Sciences in the former David Sheppard House, a base from which it coordinates cutting-edge ecological research and develops modules for environmental learning at all educational levels from elementary school upward.

Many aqualungs have been anachronistically depicted in comics in stories set during World War II, when in reality, at that time period, aqualungs were unknown outside Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his close associates in Toulon in south France.

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.

Although never visible in the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau series, Simone played a key role in the operation at sea.

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.

In 1714 for Marly he collaborated in two marble sculptures representing Apollo Chasing Daphne ( both at the Louvre ), in which Nicolas Cousteau sculpted the Apollo and Guillaume the Daphne.

The Gift was invited to open for The Flaming Lips and Cousteau, and at the end of the year, in December 2003, get an invitation to perform for the recently launched Portuguese MTV, recording one of the first MTV Live shows in the history of MTV Portugal.

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.

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Like Jarre's previous album Waiting for Cousteau, Chronologie charted at Number 9 in the UK charts.

This led to support slots with the likes of David Gray, Miles Hunt, Ben Christophers, Mark Eitzel, Cousteau, Elbow, I am Kloot, Turin Brakes, Ed Harcourt and Ryan Adams, who after she supported him in Birmingham, invited her to be his guest at his London shows.

* 1943: Engineer Émile Gagnan ( employee at Air Liquide ) and lieutenant de vaisseau ( ship-of-the-Line Lieutenant ) Jacques-Yves Cousteau, order to Air Liquide the construction, at its factory in Boulogne-Billancourt, of two scuba sets prototypes that Cousteau and Frédéric Dumas used to shoot the underwater film Épaves ( Shipwrecks ), directed by Cousteau the same year.

Bouillante profits from its many coves and bays dotting the coast, and beaches such as Anse à la Barque, Petite Anse, Anse à sable and Malendure with its famous coral barrier which lodges the prestigious Réserve Cousteau.

In June 1991, in Paris, Jacques-Yves Cousteau remarried, to Francine Triplet, with whom he had ( before this marriage ) two children, Diane and Pierre-Yves.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau died on 25 June 1997 in Paris, aged 87.

The Aqua-Lung was invented in Paris during the winter of 1942 – 1943 by the engineer Émile Gagnan and the lieutenant de vaisseau ( ship-of-the-line lieutenant ) Jacques Cousteau, both of France.

It was not until December 1942 that the demand valve was definitely improved in the way we know nowadays, when Frenchmen Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( navy officer ) and Émile Gagnan ( engineer ) met for the first time in Paris.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.