Jacques Cousteau

Also known as Jacques-Yves Cousteau

French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)

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Jacques Cousteau was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker, and author who lived from 1910 to 1997. He matters because he was a pioneering explorer of the ocean who used film and writing to bring underwater life to the public and inspire interest in marine conservation.

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Acting · Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, scientist, inventor, filmmaker, photographer, innovator, conservationist, author, and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, ("SCUBA"), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in…

Known for

Becoming Cousteau — Self (archive footage)2021
Shipwrecked on a Great Lake — Self2014
My Father the Captain: Jacques-Yves Cousteau — Self (archive footage)2011
Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants — Self (archive footage)2009
Lake Baikal: Pearl of Siberia — Self1997
Titanic's Lost Sister — Self1996
30 Years of National Geographic Specials — Self (archive footage)1995
The Cousteau Collection N°42-1 | Desert Diamonds: South Africa (Part 1) — Self1995
Jacques Cousteau: Rediscover the World II | Australia, Indonesia and the Danube — Self1992
The Cousteau Collection N°14-1 | Australia: The People of Water and Fire — Self1991

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1910
Active to: 1997

rock and indie

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Listeners: 139
Total plays: 3,268

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries
· 2021 · cited 77,875x
Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries
· 2018 · cited 53,553x
Global cancer statistics
· 2011 · cited 23,166x
Cancer incidence and mortality worldwide: Sources, methods and major patterns in GLOBOCAN 2012
· 2014 · cited 21,548x
Global cancer statistics 2022: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries
· 2024 · cited 18,769x

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Quotes

“From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.”
“Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction — up, down, sideways — by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.”
“The sea is the universal sewer.”
“We must plant the sea and herd its animals … using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about — farming replacing hunting.”
“Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.”
“If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed — if we are not willing — we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.”

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Commons category: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
date of birth: 1910-06-11
date of death: 1997-06-25
name in native language: Jacques-Yves Cousteau
nickname: Commandant Cousteau

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The Cousteau Society logo depicts the nymph Calypso, the namesake of his research vessel, also used as its house flag. Jacques-Yves Cousteau (/kuːˈstoʊ/, also UK: /ˈkuːstoʊ/; French: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries.

Cousteau wrote many books describing his undersea explorations. In his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure, Cousteau surmised the existence of the echolocation abilities of porpoises. The book was adapted into an underwater documentary called The Silent World. Co-directed by Cousteau and Louis Malle, it was one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to document the ocean depths in color. The film won the 1956 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and remained the only documentary to do so until 2004 (when Fahrenheit 9/11 received the award). It was also awarded the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957.