Living on the Coast Jacques Cousteau Tribute

Cousteau was born on the 11th June 1910. In 1930 he entered the Ecole Navale and graduated as a gunnery officer. After an automobile accident cut short his career in naval aviation, Cousteau indulged his interest in the sea.


In 1950 he founded the French Oceanographic Campaigns (FOC), and leased a ship called Calypso from Thomas Loel Guinness for a symbolic one franc a year. Cousteau refitted the Calypso as a mobile laboratory for field research and as his principal vessel for diving and filming. He also carried out underwater archaeological excavations in the Mediterranean Walt first meet Cousteau when he was involved in promoting the film The Silent World which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1956.


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