Cousteau goes back to Toulon, and Gagnan, a month later, sends him an Aqua-Lung fully charged with the valve in the right place.
Cousteau spat into his mask, a trick the Les Mousquemers used for keeping a clear mist.
Cousteau breathed effortlessly, delighted by the distinctive whistle of air when he inhaled, the rippling of the bubbles over his head
Cousteau let his arm stream along his sides, fluttered his legs, and glided slowly over the sloping sand.
Cousteau smiled into his mouthpiece as he reached the bottom of the little canyon greeted by a flashing school of fish, round and flat as saucers.
Cousteau kicked and rolled for several revolutions on axis from the head to his feet.
Cousteau thought about his family and friends in ill-fed France, grabbed a pair of lobsters, backed out of the tunnel and kicked for the surface.
Cousteau became famous after making two films that won Oscars.
Cousteau had -- his genius, really was for getting other people to do things for him.
Cousteau was on the ship a lot.
Jacques Cousteau was the son of a French lawyer and a wealthy woman who was the daughter of a wine grower of -- a grape grower who made wine near Bordeaux,
So Cousteau went and talked to Emile Gagnan and Emile showed him one of these regulators.
Jacques Cousteau . I took a couple years off and talked about Titanic for awhile but I talked about Jacques Cousteau and people
So Cousteau had moved from home movies to Oscar-winning films to broadcast television, public television, and finally into cable television.
And Cousteau observed that.
who noticed Cousteau was having trouble adapting to physical therapy he was being given for the wounds that he suffered in a car crash.
And also Cousteau was tinkering with finding a way to put a camera in a fruit jar so he could take it underwater, wind it to trigger 30 seconds of film, bring
So the goal was Cousteau and the other two men, who became his best friends, and they called themselves Les Mousquemers They had -- they were just great buddies,
And you know that Cousteau behind the camera, his beloved camera, had asked her what her name was and she tells him.
So here's Cousteau and he's back in Toulon and they're -- he's living communally with Les Mousquemers, his buddies, their wives, a couple of other people who were interested
stories about Jacques Cousteau .
would tell me their Cousteau stories.
After that Cousteau was chartering Calypso out to oil companies to do oil exploration which was much more efficient with scuba diving than it was with hardhat diving.
He saw a Cousteau documentary that had been produced for National Geographic on a Red Sea trip that Cousteau took for oil exploration and with his wife sitting in their living
Anybody got a Cousteau story?
when I saw Cousteau 's grave and I saw his birthplace and all that, it wasn't quite enough.
It's an ocean that Jacques Cousteau , when he was there doing his research, called the Aquarium of the World.
He was kind of like the Jacques Cousteau of freshwater or something.
So everyone from offspring of Jacques Cousteau to James Cameron to like real scientists and so forth have used this environment over time.
And I worked with Jacques Cousteau , made some programs with him on Calypso.
Someone really didn't like Cousteau and wanted to make his family feel bad about him, I guess.
of the library work for Cousteau .
You look at everything from Jules Verne to Jacques Cousteau , they always had technology as that bridge that gets people excited.
Cousteau used to call, not entirely affectionately, double metre, two meters.
Cousteau 's mother and some other relatives lived up there along with his brother, Pierre Antoine Cousteau , his only brother.
Most of all, Cousteau insisted the Aqua-Lung meant the end of experiments with dangerous gasses and holding their breath to shoot film underwater.
Simone, Cousteau 's wife, in mask, fins, and snorkel, would swim out to watch over her husband from above and signal to Dumas if he got into trouble.
Dumas waded out and cinched a belt around Cousteau with five pounds of lead but it wasn't enough.
Cousteau felt a squeeze in his ears and sinuses but no other effects of the pressure, and no change that he could sense in the flow of air.
Cousteau looked again at the fish nosing curiously around him.
with his head straight down than in any other attitude and Cousteau made a mental note to report that to Gagnon.
Now, Cousteau coasted fearlessly into one of them.
fact that he had 300,000 members of the Cousteau Society, environmentalism was becoming a cause celeb in our culture but people still did not want to watch that for entertainment.
Cousteau 's life turned sour in about 1979.
Again Cousteau didn't do a lot of this himself.
et ça va ressembler peut-être un peu plus à la Calypso de Cousteau justement, et avoir un peu plus de place pour vraiment faire
He works with the Cousteau Society a lot, Nico Danan.
So Cousteau started spear fishing and ran into another spear fisherman who was very
I want to read you a little bit about the day that Cousteau got the first Aqua-Lung.
When Cousteau was chest deep, he stopped and lay face down to gauge his buoyancy with the tanks of air on his back.