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Jacques Cousteau was born on June 11, 1910, in a market town of Sainte-Andre-de-Cubzac near Bordeaux a wine making region in France. Everyone said he was plump and had a head full of black hair. His parents were Elizabeth and Daniel Cousteau. Daniel Cousteau was a legal adviser and  Elizabeth was the homemaker. **What he did with his Illnesses** When Jacques got older he started to suffer from acute enteritis which is an inflammation of the intestines, and anemia. The doctor told him he couldn't do any extreme sport or workout. Jacques stayed at home and read lots and lots of books about seas and pirates and huge octopuses. Daniel's work made the family move around. Jacques's first memory was of himself falling asleep on a train. When Jacques was old enough to go to school, he and his brother attended boarding school while his father was traveling.When Jacques was young he knew he wanted to be a world explorer because of his dad's job. **Jacques's first swim and many other swims** Jacques learned to swim at a resort of Deauville where Higgins, Daniel's employer, docked his yacht when he was only 4 years old. Higgins was the one who told Jacques to swim even if he suffered from illnesses.  Jacques loved touching the water. As soon as Jacques got older he started to become a strong swimmer as his illnesses started to go away. In 1920, the family went to live with Higgins in New York for 2 years. In Lake Harvey in Vermont where Jacques and his brother attended summer camp was where Jacques learned how to dive under water. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 108%;"> After going to New York they returned to France. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 121%;">Jacques saved all his money to buy a camera.When he got his first camera he took it apart and back together again. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">This is a map of Jacques's birth place. Cousteau was an underwater explorer and made objects for divers and people. Shortly after, Jacques made the first underwater breathing device called the Aqua-lung with his partner Gagnan. Shortly after, Jacques made the first underwater breathing device called the Aqua-lung with his partner Gagnan. They tried the Aqua-lung in 1943 and it started selling in 1946. Divers loved the new invention and they loved that they didn't need to be up near the suface to breath. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Jacques made little movies with his friends, using his new camera. Once Jacques graduated college he decided to join the naval academy. Jacques was going to take his pilot's exam when he drove his dad's car off a mountain road. In the accident he broke both of his arms, One of his arms had an infection in it. Cousteau finally left the Navy for good in 1950. He,his crew, his wife, and his friend Frederic Dumas went on a boat called Calypso to explore new features in the sea, new oceans, and doing experiments. Cousteau published a book in 1953 called the "The Silent World". Then he invented the first colorful underwater photo. Cousteau then started making films underwater, they were called "The Golden Fish" which came out in 1959 and "The Silent World" which came out in 1956. They got Academy Awards. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Cousteau experimented if a human could live in pressurized habitats in 1960, and his experiments were called Conshelf 1, 2, and 3. He made a movie called " World Without Sun" which was about the Conshelf 2 and it won an Academy Award in 1964. The film about Conshelf 3 went on National Geographic and was a special. Cousteau's television series "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" won an Emmy Award and it premiered in 1968 and lasted for nine years. Cousteau kept making flims but in 1970 he started to focus on marine conservation. In 1974 Cousteau made a society that was called Cousteau Society.What Cousteau's society did was to help save oceans.
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When Cousteau broke his arms in the crash he did many physical therapy treatments and then he was able to move his arms again but he ended his flying career. Jacques started to swim in the Mediterranean every day to help his arms strengthen. Cousteau started to explore using goggles underwater. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">In 1936 he got married to Simone Melchior in Paris. They had two sons named Philippe and Jean- Michel. Jacques then started to experiment with body suits and breathing devices. <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> Cousteau's life started to get a little rough. His son Philippe was an important part to Cousteau's Society and he died in a plane crash in 1979. Cousteau's wife died in 1990 <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">.His other son Jean-Michel was supposed to take Philippe's place but Jean-Michel complained a lot to his dad and he finally retired from the Cousteau Society in 1992. Calypso, in 1996 was hit by a flat boat and sank. After the boat sank, Cousteau was raising money for Calypso number 2. Cousteau then died on June 25, 1997. He was 87 years old. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">" Cousteau, Jacques ." Compton's by Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition. 8 Sept. 2009 <<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[] >. Markham, Lois. Jacques Cousteau Exploring the wonders of the deep. Austin, Texas: Raintree Steck-Vaughn publishers, 1997. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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