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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.
*" Calypso " ( song ), a 1975 song by John Denver written as a tribute to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his research ship Calypso
* RV Calypso, an oceanographic research ship operated by Jacques-Yves Cousteau
* Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( explorer, ecologist )
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.
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 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.
During his lifetime, Jacques-Yves Cousteau received these distinctions:
The Cousteau Society and its French counterpart, l ' Équipe Cousteau, both of which Jacques-Yves Cousteau founded, are still active today.
Its Oceanographic Museum, formerly directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, is one of the most renowned institutions of its kind in the world.
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.
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.
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.
In the 90's, Vangelis scored a number of undersea documentaries for French ecologist and filmmaker, Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
* Jacques-Yves Cousteau co-invents, with Emile Gagnan, the first commercially successful open circuit type of scuba diving equipment, the Aqua-lung.

Jacques-Yves and known
The term " Aqualung ", as far as is known, first appeared in print on page 3 of Jacques-Yves Cousteau's first book, The Silent World in 1953.

Jacques-Yves and English
Other songs follow similarly crazy themes-the " Gwar Theme " is a car-eating anthem, " Je M ' Appelle J. Cousteau " features famous aquanaut Jacques-Yves Cousteau in a Dada-esque romp, and " AEIOU " disputes whether the English alphabet is the property of Satan or Gor-Gor ( another Gwar character who would later surface in the song / video of the same name ).

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* Calypso research vessel of Jacques-Yves Cousteau ; the ex-Royal Navy BYMS-class vessel J826
Jacques-Yves Cousteau once found what he believed was " the cleanest waters in the world " around this minor archipelago ; there is an abundance of marine activity, many endemic to the environment, including the Barred hogfish, puffer fish Tetraodontidae, the Sea Spider and many species of Sea urchin.
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.

Jacques-Yves and 11
* June 11 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker, scientist, photographer and researcher ( d. 1997 )
Initial members serving on the NSI board of directors and governors were a veritable " Who's Who " list that included comedian and entertainer Bob Hope, singer / songwriter John Denver, oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, " Original 7 " Project Mercury astronaut and Senator John H. Glenn, Jr., Apollo 8 astronaut Frank Borman, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, Dr. Michael DeBakey, " Star Trek " creator Gene Roddenberry and actress Nichelle Nichols.
The album was dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was released on his 80th birthday 11 June 1990.

Jacques-Yves and 1910
* Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( 1910 1997 ) French naval officer, explorer and early underwater pioneer.
* Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( 1910 1997 ), a famous marine explorer who invented the aqua-lung
* Jacques-Yves Cousteau ( 1910 1997 ), French underwater explorer

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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 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.
Simone Melchior Cousteau ( January 19, 1919 December 1, 1990 ) was the wife and business partner of undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
* Simone Melchior Cousteau ( 1919 1990 ), wife of undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
* Jean-Michel Cousteau ( 1938 ), eldest son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
* Philippe Cousteau ( 1940 1979 ), second son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau
# Jacques-Yves Cousteau Oceanologist
Frédéric Dumas ( 1913 1991 ) was part of a team of three, with Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Philippe Tailliez, in which he was nicknamed Didi.

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Gagnan's boss, Henri Melchior, knew that his son-in-law Jacques-Yves Cousteau was looking for an automatic demand regulator, so he introduced Cousteau to Gagnan in December 1942.
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.
It was a dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau in his 80th birthday.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, co-inventor of the first commercially successful open circuit scuba equipment, was the world's first scuba cave diver.
Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the inventor of the aqualung, was on the board of advisors of NAUI, as was Albert R. Behnke, a pioneer of diving medicine.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau said of himself that he was an impresario of scientists as an explorer and filmmaker who worked with scientists in underwater exploration.
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.
John Denver was a close friend of Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
The facility was visited by the marine biologist Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1984.
Developed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau to record basic observations of life underwater, Conshelf I was submerged in of water near Marseilles, and the first experiment involved a team of two spending seven days in the habitat.
Early promos for the album had the title track named " Cousteau on the Beach ", but was renamed later, because Jacques-Yves Cousteau thought beaches are an environmental disaster.
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.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau was its director for many years, beginning in 1957.
This site was made famous by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who declared it one of the top ten scuba diving sites in the world.

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