query: What was the name of Jacques Cousteau's ship?

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: with the Cannes Film Festival 1951). Cousteau and the "Élie Monnier" then took part in the rescue of Professor Jacques Piccard's bathyscaphe, the FNRS-2, during the 1949 expedition to Dakar. Thanks to this rescue, the French Navy was able to reuse the sphere of the bathyscaphe to construct the FNRS-3. The adventures of this period are told in the two books "" (1953, by Cousteau and Dumas) and "Plongées sans câble" (1954, by Philippe Tailliez). In 1949, Cousteau left the French Navy. In 1950, he founded the French Oceanographic Campaigns (FOC), and leased a ship called "Calypso" from Thomas Loel

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: became one of the most important characteristics of modern television broadcasting. The Cousteau Society and its French counterpart, l'Équipe Cousteau, both of which Jacques-Yves Cousteau founded, are still active today. The Society is currently attempting to turn the original "Calypso" into a museum and it is raising funds to build a successor vessel, the "Calypso II". In his last years, after marrying again, Cousteau became involved in a legal battle with his son Jean-Michel over Jean-Michel licensing the Cousteau name for a South Pacific resort, resulting in Jean-Michel Cousteau being ordered by the court not to encourage confusion between his

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: he sued his son who wished to open a holiday center named "Cousteau" in the Fiji Islands. On 11 January 1996, "Calypso" was accidentally rammed and sunk in the port of Singapore by a barge. The "Calypso" was refloated and towed home to France. Jacques-Yves Cousteau died of a heart attack on 25 June 1997 in Paris, two weeks after his 87th birthday. He was buried in the family vault at Saint-André-de-Cubzac, his birthplace. An homage was paid to him by the town by naming the street which runs out to the house of his birth "rue du Commandant Cousteau",

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: with whom he had two sons, Jean-Michel (born 1938) and Philippe (1940–1979). His sons took part in the adventures of the "Calypso". In 1991, one year after his wife Simone's death from cancer, he married Francine Triplet. They already had a daughter Diane Cousteau (born 1980) and a son, Pierre-Yves Cousteau (born 1982), born during Cousteau's marriage to his first wife. The years of World War II were decisive for the history of diving. 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

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: sharks". In December 1972, two years after the volcano's last eruption, The Cousteau Society was filming "Voyage au bout du monde" on Deception Island, Antarctica, when Michel Laval, "Calypso"'s second in command, was struck and killed by a rotor of the helicopter that was ferrying between "Calypso" and the island. In 1973, along with his two sons and Frederick Hyman, he created the Cousteau Society for the Protection of Ocean Life, Frederick Hyman being its first President. In 1975, John Denver released the tribute song "Calypso" on his album "Windsong", and on the B-side of his hit song "I'm Sorry".

title: En attendant Cousteau

text: this event. 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. "Calypso Part 1" contains samples previously heard in the tracks "Zoolookologie" and "Moon Machine", the former appearing on his 1984 album "Zoolook", and the latter as the B-side to the single "Fourth Rendez-Vous" and later appearing on the compilation album "Images". The last track, "En Attendant Cousteau", was also used in the soundtrack to a 1991 documentary entitled "Palawan : Le dernier refuge" by oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. All tracks composed by

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: for-profit business and his father's non-profit endeavours. In 2007, the International Watch Company introduced the IWC Aquatimer Chronograph "Cousteau Divers" Special Edition. The timepiece incorporated a sliver of wood from the interior of Cousteau's Calypso research vessel. Having developed the diver's watch, IWC offered support to The Cousteau Society. The proceeds from the timepieces' sales were partially donated to the non-profit organization involved in conservation of marine life and preservation of tropical coral reefs. Though he was not particularly a religious man, Cousteau believed that the teachings of the different major religions provide valuable ideals and thoughts to protect the

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: "Calypso" became a hit on its own and was later considered the new A-side, reaching #2 on the charts. In 1976, Cousteau uncovered the wreck of HMHS "Britannic". He also found the wreck of the French 17th-century ship-of-the-line "La Therese" in coastal waters of Crete. In 1977, together with Peter Scott, he received the UN International Environment prize. On 28 June 1979, while the "Calypso" was on an expedition to Portugal, his second son Philippe, his preferred and designated successor and with whom he had co-produced all his films since 1969, died in a PBY Catalina flying boat crash in

title: Fabien Cousteau

text: showmanship. In 2002, he was selected by "People" magazine as the "sexiest explorer" in the magazine's annual listing of the sexiest living men. Cousteau got engaged to Lisa Singer in 2016 on Klein Bonaire, a protected national marine island in Bonaire. Fabien Cousteau Fabien Cousteau (born 2 October 1967) is an aquanaut, ocean conservationist, and documentary filmmaker. As the first grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Fabien spent his early years aboard his grandfather’s ships Calypso and Alcyone; learning how to scuba dive on his fourth birthday. From 2000–2002, Fabien was an Explorer-at-Large for National Geographic and collaborated on a TV special

title: Céline Cousteau

text: ocean explorer and shark advocate, and granddaughter of Jacques Yves Cousteau. She grew up between their family homes in France and the United States, and as the granddaughter of legendary explorer and oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, Celine spent much of her youth aboard his famous research vessel "Calypso", plying the seas in search of answers to the oceans' greatest mysteries. One of her first major expeditions was at age nine when she journeyed to the Amazon with her family. There they spent 18 months navigating its waters in areas that were still largely unknown to the outside world. It was on

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: 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, in particular at Grand-Congloué (1952). With the publication of his first book in 1953, "", he correctly predicted the existence of the echolocation abilities of porpoises. He reported that his research vessel, the "Élie Monier," was heading to the Straits of Gibraltar and noticed a group of porpoises following them. Cousteau changed course a few degrees off the optimal course to the

title: Fabien Cousteau

text: Fabien Cousteau Fabien Cousteau (born 2 October 1967) is an aquanaut, ocean conservationist, and documentary filmmaker. As the first grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Fabien spent his early years aboard his grandfather’s ships Calypso and Alcyone; learning how to scuba dive on his fourth birthday. From 2000–2002, Fabien was an Explorer-at-Large for National Geographic and collaborated on a TV special aimed at changing public conceptions about sharks called "Attack of the Mystery Shark". Then in 2003–2006, he produced the documentary "" that aired on CBS. With the help of a large crew, Fabien created a 14-foot, 1,200-pound, lifelike shark submarine called

title: Philippe Cousteau

text: aqua-lung he had co-invented a few years before. Though Philippe had not yet learned to swim, he followed his father into the water. Growing up, he spent each school vacation aboard his father’s ship, RV "Calypso". As a teenager, he began to feel the drive to explore. While his father had pursued the horizon on the sea, Philippe Cousteau dreamed of pursuing horizons in the sky and began to study aerodynamics at the age of 16, flying first as a glider pilot, and then earning his airplane pilot license at a young age. Cousteau spent two years in the French

title: Simone Melchior

text: Simone Melchior Simone Melchior Cousteau (19 January 1919 – 1 December 1990) was the wife and business partner of undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The first woman scuba diver and aquanaut, Simone was at Jacques's side during his major underwater accomplishments. She led him to the men and money who would build his scuba invention, she helped buy their beloved ship Calypso, saved the ship during a storm, and made sure each exploration achieved its objective. Although never visible in the "Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" series, Simone played a key role in the operation at sea. Acting as mother, healer,

title: Fabien Cousteau

text: sneaked into a showing of "Jaws". The film perplexed him – "It went against everything I had ever learned about sharks ... Great white sharks don't go around chopping up boats," he explained – and started him on a mission to clear up "the gross misconceptions we have about sharks". At age seven, Cousteau accompanied his grandfather and father on the first of many sea trips aboard the "Calypso" and "Alcyone", the ships that transported the explorers to their dive locations. He officially joined the crew at age twelve; his first job was to remove barnacles from Jacques-Yves Cousteau's boats.

title: Voyage to the Edge of the World

text: World" was the first film to show underwater footage taken from the submerged inside of glaciers or icebergs. It also was the first film to show high depth footage in Antarctic waters (thanks to the diving saucer SP-350 "Denise"). Paleontologist Michel Laval, "Calypso"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Chief Mate, accidentally died on Deception Island, 29 December 1972, when he was struck by the tail propeller of the helicopter of the expedition. Voyage to the Edge of the World Voyage to the Edge of the World () is a 1976 French nature documentary film directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, his son Philippe Cousteau and Marshall Flaum.

title: Philippe Cousteau

text: the underwater filming, which became a National Geographic documentary film that aired in 1966. In February 1967, Cousteau accompanied his father on the RV "Calypso" for an expedition to film the sharks of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. As well as being the lead photographer for the expedition, Cousteau also chronicled his experiences in the 1970 publication "The Shark: Splendid Savage of the Sea". In 1969, Cousteau lent his technical expertise to the U.S. Navy's SEALAB program. In the aftermath of aquanaut Berry L. Cannon's death while attempting to repair a leak in SEALAB III, Cousteau volunteered to

title: Philippe Cousteau

text: a PBY Catalina seaplane in 1974. The amphibious aircraft was a converted U.S. Navy Catalina flying boat. Christened the Flying Calypso, the aircraft was in many of the Cousteau films and the home base for Cousteau's team. Cousteau met Janice Sullivan in the crowded ballroom of St. Regis Hotel in New York City, USA, in February 1966. She was a fashion model originally from Los Angeles and more recently from New York. On 10 February 1967, they were married in Paris, France. Sullivan joined Cousteau on most of his father's expeditions (20 of 26 filming expeditions that spanned 13 years).

title: The Silent World

text: The Silent World The Silent World () is a 1956 French documentary film co-directed by the famed French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and a young Louis Malle. "The Silent World" is noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color. Its title derives from Cousteau's 1953 book "". It was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures. The film was shot aboard the ship "Calypso". Cousteau and his team of divers shot 25 kilometers of film over two years in the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the

title: RV Calypso

text: they expected a resolution from the "tribunal de commerce" (commercial court) in Quimper within a few weeks, setting the stage for the restoration of the ship by Piriou or another shipyard. In March, 2015, after a long legal battle, a French court has ordered Francine Cousteau, the second wife and widow of Jacques Cousteau, to settle outstanding yard bills of €273,000 and remove "Calypso" from a Brittany shipyard or the shipyard will be allowed to sell the vessel. On 6 January 2016 the Cousteau Society announced that a solution had been found to allow the ship to return to service,

title: RV Calypso

text: luxury chronograph, sold to raise proceeds for the restoration of "Calypso". Restoration work on "Calypso" stopped in February 2009 after the delivery of "Calypso"s new engines built by Volvo, because of the non-payment of bills by Francine Cousteau. Piriou sued, claiming to be owed over €850,000, of the estimated total €1,737,000, for work already done on the ship. The ship was stored in one of the ship builder's hangars. The Cousteau Society filed a counter-suit for defective work. As of March 2009 the Cousteau Society reported that Francine Cousteau was directing the restoration of "Calypso" as an "ambassador for the

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: Triplet, with whom he had (before this marriage) two children, Diane and Pierre-Yves. Francine Cousteau currently continues her husband's work as the head of the Cousteau Foundation and Cousteau Society. From that point, the relations between Jacques-Yves and his elder son worsened. In November 1991, Cousteau gave an interview to the "UNESCO Courier", in which he stated that he was in favour of human population control and population decrease. Widely quoted on the Internet are these two paragraphs from the interview: "What should we do to eliminate suffering and disease? It's a wonderful idea but perhaps not altogether a beneficial

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: environment. In a Chapter entitled "The Holy Scriptures and The Environment" in the posthumous work "The Human, the Orchid, and the Octopus", he is quoted as stating that "The glory of nature provides evidence that God exists". Jacques Cousteau has been portrayed in films: Jacques Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau (; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. Cousteau described his underwater

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: Jacques Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau (; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. Cousteau described his underwater world research in a series of books, perhaps the most successful being his first book, "", published in 1953. Cousteau also directed films, most notably the documentary adaptation of the book, "The Silent World", which won a Palme d'or at the 1956 Cannes Film

title: Jacques Cousteau Island

text: introduced a resolution in the Mexican Congress requesting the name change be reversed. Leading Mexican intellectuals such as Miguel León-Portilla (a former UNESCO director) have also voiced opposition to the name change. Jacques Cousteau Island Isla Cerralvo (), as is commonly named, whose official name is Isla Jacques Cousteau (; ), is an island located off the Cerralvo Canal coast near La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. It is long with a land area of , and is the ninth-largest island in Mexico. It is part of Municipality of La Paz. The island peak comes to and the ridge line

title: Jacques Cousteau Island

text: Jacques Cousteau Island Isla Cerralvo (), as is commonly named, whose official name is Isla Jacques Cousteau (; ), is an island located off the Cerralvo Canal coast near La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico. It is long with a land area of , and is the ninth-largest island in Mexico. It is part of Municipality of La Paz. The island peak comes to and the ridge line runs north-south with many small streams draining east to Gulf of California and west to Cupalo Canal. There are many steep bluffs on the eastern sides and many sandy beaches and points

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: to the Académie française, chair 17, succeeding Jean Delay. His official reception under the cupola took place on 22 June 1989, the response to his speech of reception being given by Bertrand Poirot-Delpech. After his death, he was replaced by Érik Orsenna on 28 May 1998. In June 1990, the composer Jean Michel Jarre paid homage to the commander by entitling his new album "Waiting for Cousteau". He also composed the music for Cousteau's documentary "Palawan, the last refuge". On 2 December 1990, his wife Simone Cousteau died of cancer. In June 1991, in Paris, Jacques-Yves Cousteau remarried, to Francine

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: with American television companies (ABC, Métromédia, NBC) created the series "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau", with the character of the commander in the red bonnet inherited from standard diving dress intended to give the films a "personalized adventure" style. This documentary television series ran for ten years from 1966 to 1976. A second documentary series, "The Cousteau Odyssey", ran from 1977 to 1982 on public television stations. In 1970, he wrote the book "The Shark: Splendid Savage of the Sea" with his son Philippe. In this book, Cousteau described the oceanic whitetip shark as "the most dangerous of all

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: where a commemorative plaque was placed. During his lifetime, Jacques-Yves Cousteau received these distinctions: Cousteau's legacy includes more than 120 television documentaries, more than 50 books, and an environmental protection foundation with 300,000 members. Cousteau liked to call himself an "oceanographic technician." He was, in reality, a sophisticated showman, teacher, and lover of nature. His work permitted many people to explore the resources of the oceans. His work also created a new kind of scientific communication, criticized at the time by some academics. The so-called "divulgationism", a simple way of sharing scientific concepts, was soon employed in other disciplines and

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: scientists, including Louis Fage and Jacques Cousteau, repudiated the claim, saying that Romanovsky had in mind a much smaller amount. The CEA claimed that there was little circulation (and hence little need for concern) at the dump site between Nice and Corsica, but French public opinion sided with the oceanographers rather than with the CEA atomic energy scientists. The CEA chief, Francis Perrin, decided to postpone the dump. Cousteau organized a publicity campaign which in less than two weeks gained wide popular support. The train carrying the waste was stopped by women and children sitting on the railway tracks, and

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: 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. At that time, he kept his distance from his brother Pierre-Antoine Cousteau, a "pen anti-semite" who wrote the collaborationist newspaper "Je suis partout" ("I am everywhere") and who received the death sentence in 1946. However, this was later commuted to a life sentence,

title: Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve

text: On October 20, 1997 the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JC NERR) was dedicated in honor of Jacques Cousteau. The JC NERR is one of 26 National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) created to promote responsible use and management of our nation's estuaries. Estuaries, where the rivers meet the sea, are the wide lower course of a river where its current is met by the tides. This mix of fresh and salt water creates a unique and very productive ecosystem vital to life both on land and in the sea. The mission of the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve

title: Jacques Cousteau Island

text: French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910–1997) who had led many expeditions in this area. This name change has generated annoyance and a growing resistance amongst citizens of nearby shores, in Baja California Sur state, who were not consulted; they insist on keeping the name "Isla Cerralvo". This resistance is also supported by many people in other Mexican regions. Mexican senators Luis Alberto Coppola Joffroy, Sebastian Calderón Centeno and Humberto Andrade Quezada, from Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) initiated a resolution to request different Mexican authorities to inform the decree where change of name was adopted. Also senator Francisco Javier Obregón Espinoza has

title: Céline Cousteau

text: Céline Cousteau Céline S. Cousteau (born June 6, 1972) is a socio-environmental advocate and public figure. She is known for her work as documentary film director, producer, explorer, artist, public speaker, brand ambassador and designer. She is the Founder/Director of CauseCentric Productions and Co-Founder/ Chairman of the Board of the Céline Cousteau Film Fellowship. Céline is the daughter of ocean explorer and filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau and granddaughter of Jacques Yves Cousteau. Cousteau was born in California to Jean-Michel Cousteau, a renowned documentary-maker and environmental advocate, and Anne-Marie Cousteau, a former expedition photographer. She is the sister of Fabien Cousteau, an

title: Céline Cousteau

text: Scientists for Conservation as well as Plant a Fish. Céline Cousteau Céline S. Cousteau (born June 6, 1972) is a socio-environmental advocate and public figure. She is known for her work as documentary film director, producer, explorer, artist, public speaker, brand ambassador and designer. She is the Founder/Director of CauseCentric Productions and Co-Founder/ Chairman of the Board of the Céline Cousteau Film Fellowship. Céline is the daughter of ocean explorer and filmmaker Jean-Michel Cousteau and granddaughter of Jacques Yves Cousteau. Cousteau was born in California to Jean-Michel Cousteau, a renowned documentary-maker and environmental advocate, and Anne-Marie Cousteau, a former expedition

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: 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. The two neighbors took the first ex-aequo prize of the Congress of Documentary Film in 1943, for the first French underwater film: "Par dix-huit mètres de fond" ("18 meters deep"), made without breathing apparatus the previous year in the Embiez islands (Var) with Philippe Tailliez and Frédéric Dumas, using a depth-pressure-proof camera case developed by mechanical engineer Léon Vèche (engineer of Arts and Métiers and the

title: Jacques Cousteau Island

text: on the west side. There is abundant marine life surrounding this island due to underwater topography and ocean currents. Virtually all local marine life must migrate past the island and water visibility goes up to 30 meters making it a prime location for big game fishing. There are abundant golden grouper, marlin, sailfish, swordfish or broadbill, and other game fish in Cerralvo Canal waters. Views from island at dawn and sunset are very lively and filled with color. In November 17, 2009, Mexican government changed the island name from historical name "Isla Cerralvo" to "Isla Jacques Cousteau" in honor of

title: Fabien Cousteau

text: education. Fabien Cousteau is the grandson of famed oceanographic explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and son of Jean-Michel Cousteau who assisted Jacques-Yves on most of his expeditions. Fabien Cousteau was born and raised in France, although he has lived in the United States for the majority of his life. He has a sister, Céline Cousteau. Cousteau's first scuba dive came at age four when Jacques-Yves Cousteau strapped a custom made scuba tank to his back and sent Fabien Cousteau off into the Mediterranean Sea. His interest in sharks began at a young age, about 6 or 7, and was piqued when he

title: Alexandra Cousteau

text: Alexandra Cousteau Alexandra Marguerite Clémentine Cousteau (born March 21, 1976) is a filmmaker and an environmental activist. Cousteau continues the work of her grandfather Jacques-Yves Cousteau and father Philippe Cousteau, Sr. Cousteau advocates the importance of conservation, restoration and sustainable management of ocean and water resources for a healthy planet and productive societies. Cousteau is the daughter of Philippe Cousteau and Jan Cousteau and the granddaughter of French explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Simone Cousteau. She is a member of the third generation Cousteau family who explore and explain the natural world. At the age of four months, Cousteau

title: Jean-Michel Cousteau

text: Jean-Michel Cousteau Jean-Michel Cousteau (born 6 May 1938) is a French oceanographic explorer, environmentalist, educator, and film producer. The first son of ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, he is the father of Fabien Cousteau and Céline Cousteau. Cousteau is the son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Simone Melchior. Cousteau first dived with an aqua-lung in 1945 when he was 7 years old. Although he went to school to study architecture, he joined his father's Cousteau Society, serving for twenty years as executive vice president before striking out on his own in 1993 to produce environmental films. Cousteau and his father disagreed on

text: Environmental Technology. Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve The Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, located in southeastern New Jersey, encompasses over 110,000 acres (450 km²) of terrestrial, wetland and aquatic habitats within the Mullica River-Great Bay Ecosystem. A wide range of habitats includes the pinelands, lowland swamps, freshwater marshes, salt and freshwater tidal marshes, barrier islands (sandy beaches and dune habitats), shallow bays and the coastal ocean. Little more than one percent of this reserve has been subject to human development. The area is one of the least disturbed estuaries in the densely populated urban corridor of the northeastern

text: Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve The Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, located in southeastern New Jersey, encompasses over 110,000 acres (450 km²) of terrestrial, wetland and aquatic habitats within the Mullica River-Great Bay Ecosystem. A wide range of habitats includes the pinelands, lowland swamps, freshwater marshes, salt and freshwater tidal marshes, barrier islands (sandy beaches and dune habitats), shallow bays and the coastal ocean. Little more than one percent of this reserve has been subject to human development. The area is one of the least disturbed estuaries in the densely populated urban corridor of the northeastern United States.

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: and Pierre-Antoine was released in 1954. During the 1940s, Cousteau is credited with improving the aqua-lung design which gave birth to the open-circuit scuba technology used today. According to his first book, "" (1953), Cousteau started diving with Fernez goggles in 1936, and in 1939 used the self-contained underwater breathing apparatus invented in 1926 by Commander Yves le Prieur. Cousteau was not satisfied with the length of time he could spend underwater with the Le Prieur apparatus so he improved it to extend underwater duration by adding a demand regulator, invented in 1942 by Émile Gagnan. In 1943 Cousteau tried

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: Festival. He remained the only person to win a Palme d'Or for a documentary film, until Michael Moore won the award in 2004 for "Fahrenheit 9/11". Cousteau was born on 11 June 1910, in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France, to Daniel and Élisabeth Cousteau. He had one brother, Pierre-Antoine. Cousteau completed his preparatory studies at the Collège Stanislas in Paris. In 1930, he entered the École 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. The accident caused him to break both his arms and could

title: Philippe Cousteau

text: Philippe Cousteau Philippe-Pierre Cousteau (30 December 1940 – 28 June 1979) was the second son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Simone Cousteau, a diver, sailor, pilot, photographer, author, director and cinematographer specializing in environmental issues, with a background in oceanography. Philippe Cousteau was proficient filming from the air, on land and underwater. He was the lead cinematographer for most of the Cousteau films during his lifetime; he was nominated for and won several awards. Born in Toulon, Philippe Cousteau first dived with an aqua-lung in 1945 when he was 4 years old. His father brought home a miniature version of the

title: Philippe Cousteau Jr.

text: The couple currently appear as the co-stars of the Travel Channel series Caribbean Pirate Treasure. Cousteau married entertainment journalist Ashlan Gorse on September 25, 2013 in a civil ceremony at the City Hall of the 8th arrondissement in Paris, and had a second ceremony on September 28, 2013 at the Château d’Esclimont in Saint-Symphorien-le-Château. Cousteau has co-written two books, "Going Blue" and "Make a Splash". "Going Blue" won five awards. His latest book, "Follow the Moon Home", was released in 2016. Philippe Cousteau Jr. Philippe-Pierre Jacques-Yves Arnault Cousteau Jr. is the son of Philippe Cousteau and the grandson of Jacques-Yves

title: Philippe Cousteau Jr.

text: Philippe Cousteau Jr. Philippe-Pierre Jacques-Yves Arnault Cousteau Jr. is the son of Philippe Cousteau and the grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Cousteau has continued the work of his father and grandfather by educating the public about environmental and conservation issues. In 2017, he received an Emmy nomination for hosting the syndicated science series "Awesome Planet". Philippe and his wife Ashlan Gorse Cousteau currently co-star in the Travel Channel series Caribbean Pirate Treasure, the second season of which is scheduled to air in 2018. The show won the Cynopsis TV Award for the best adventure reality series after its first season. Philippe

title: Philippe Cousteau

text: Society of America (now presented by The Academy of Underwater Arts and Sciences) (1977), World Wildlife Award and many others. The Philippe Cousteau Anchor Museum in Asturias, Spain, honors the oceanographer. The lycée Philippe Cousteau in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France honors his work. His children Alexandra Cousteau and Philippe Cousteau Jr. continue the family work in oceanography as the Co-Founders of EarthEcho International. Philippe Cousteau Philippe-Pierre Cousteau (30 December 1940 – 28 June 1979) was the second son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Simone Cousteau, a diver, sailor, pilot, photographer, author, director and cinematographer specializing in environmental issues, with a background in oceanography.

title: Alexandra Cousteau

text: first went on expedition with her father, Philippe Cousteau and learned to scuba dive with her grandfather, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, when she was seven. Cousteau earned a Bachelor's degree in political science (International Relations) from Georgetown College in 1998. In May 2016, she received an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from Georgetown University, her alma mater. In 2000, Cousteau co-founded EarthEcho International with her brother Philippe Cousteau Jr. to further her family's legacy in science, advocacy, and education. From 2005 to 2007, Cousteau worked on ocean conservation issues in Central America as an advisor for MarViva. In 2010, Cousteau

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: center of the strait, and the porpoises followed for a few minutes, then diverged toward mid-channel again. It was evident that they knew where the optimal course lay, even if the humans did not. Cousteau concluded that the cetaceans had something like sonar, which was a relatively new feature on submarines. In 1954, Cousteau conducted a survey of Abu Dhabi waters on behalf of British Petroleum. Among those accompanying him was Louis Malle who made a black-and-white film of the expedition for the company. Cousteau won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1956 for "The Silent World"

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: have even killed him. This caused Cousteau to have to change his plans in becoming a naval pilot, but it eventually worked out because of his passion for the ocean. In Toulon, where he was serving on the "Condorcet", Cousteau carried out his first underwater experiments, thanks to his friend Philippe Tailliez who in 1936 lent him some Fernez underwater goggles, predecessors of modern swimming goggles. Cousteau also belonged to the information service of the French Navy, and was sent on missions to Shanghai and Japan (1935–1938) and in the USSR (1939). On 12 July 1937 he married Simone Melchior,

title: Alexandra Cousteau

text: led the Expedition Blue Planet: North America, a five-month, 18,000 miles of across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. In 2014, Alexandra led an expedition to Canada in partnership with the Ottawa Riverkeeper and Aqua Hacking 2015, a conference focused on protecting the river. It's a joint initiative between Ottawa Riverkeeper, Alexandra Cousteau's Blue Legacy, and the de Gaspe Beaubien Foundation. Alexandra Cousteau Alexandra Marguerite Clémentine Cousteau (born March 21, 1976) is a filmmaker and an environmental activist. Cousteau continues the work of her grandfather Jacques-Yves Cousteau and father Philippe Cousteau, Sr. Cousteau advocates the importance of conservation, restoration and sustainable

title: Desireé Cousteau

text: from the late 1970s through the early 1980s. She received the Adult Film Association of America Best Actress Award in 1979 for her performance in the movie "Pretty Peaches", with film director Alex de Renzy. Desireé Cousteau Desireé Cousteau was the stage name of a former pornographic actress of the 1970s and 1980s. She is best known for her roles in the 1978 film "Pretty Peaches" and 1979's "Inside Désirée Cousteau". In 1993, she was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame, and, in 1997, she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. Cousteau started out in the early

title: Desireé Cousteau

text: Desireé Cousteau Desireé Cousteau was the stage name of a former pornographic actress of the 1970s and 1980s. She is best known for her roles in the 1978 film "Pretty Peaches" and 1979's "Inside Désirée Cousteau". In 1993, she was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame, and, in 1997, she was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame. Cousteau started out in the early 1970s as a mainstream actress, landing a small part in the 1974 "women in prison" B-movie "Caged Heat". Her career stagnated, and she soon began appearing in sex films. She worked steadily in adult movies

title: Philippe Cousteau Jr.

text: Cousteau Jr. was born in Santa Monica, California in 1980 to Jan Cousteau, the widow of Philippe Cousteau, who died six months before the birth; he is the grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Cousteau grew up in France and the United States. He attended high school at St. George's School in Newport, RI and later graduated from St. Andrews University in Scotland where he earned an M.A. in History. In 2000, he co-founded EarthEcho International with his mother Jan Cousteau and his sister Alexandra Cousteau. EarthEcho International is based in Washington, D.C., and its mission is to "empower youth to take

title: Jean-Michel Cousteau

text: the management and policies of the Society. After Cousteau opened a resort on a Fiji Island utilizing the family name, Jacques-Yves Cousteau filed a lawsuit against him in 1996. In June 1996, a court signed an injunction requiring him to add, with equal prominence in placement, his first name to the hotel. Jean-Michel then founded the Ocean Futures Society in 1999, a marine conservation and education organization. In 2003, Francesca Sorrenti and Marisha Shibuya of the SKe GROUP project, in partnership with Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society, collaborated to produce "Water Culture", a Trolley Books publication featuring a wide variety

title: Pierre-Antoine Cousteau

text: Pierre-Antoine Cousteau Pierre-Antoine Cousteau (18 March 1906 – 17 December 1958) was a French far right polemicist and journalist. He was the brother of the famous explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He was born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, and educated in the United States as well as the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Cousteau served in the military before working as a translator and a meteorologist and for New York's Credit Alliance Corporation. He then became a journalist for left-wing papers such as "Regards" or "Monde" and was associated with pacifism and the Anti-Stalinist left. Cousteau abandoned his communism in the early 1930s, and was drawn

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: the Tagus river near Lisbon. Cousteau was deeply affected. He called his then eldest son, the architect Jean-Michel, to his side. This collaboration lasted 14 years. From 1980 to 1981, he was a regular on the animal reality show "Those Amazing Animals", along with Burgess Meredith, Priscilla Presley, and Jim Stafford. In 1980, Cousteau traveled to Canada to make two films on the Saint Lawrence River and the Great Lakes, "Cries from the Deep" and "St. Lawrence: Stairway to the Sea". In 1985, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Ronald Reagan. On 24 November 1988, he was elected

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: it was sent back to its origin. In the 1960s Cousteau was involved with a set of three projects to build underwater "villages"; the projects were named Precontinent I, Precontinent II and Precontinent III. Each ensuing project was aimed at increasing the depth at which people continuously lived under water, and were an attempt at creating an environment in which men could live and work on the sea floor. The projects are best known as Conshelf I (1962), Conshelf II (1963), and Conshelf III (1965). The names "Precontinent", and "Continental Shelf Station" (Conshelf) were used interchangeably by Cousteau. A meeting

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: an aqualung, while attempting a new depth record with the GERS near Toulon. In 1948, between missions of mine clearance, underwater exploration and technological and physiological tests, Cousteau undertook a first campaign in the Mediterranean on board the sloop "Élie Monnier", with Philippe Tailliez, Frédéric Dumas, Jean Alinat and the scenario writer Marcel Ichac. The small team also undertook the exploration of the Roman wreck of Mahdia (Tunisia). It was the first underwater archaeology operation using autonomous diving, opening the way for scientific underwater archaeology. Cousteau and Marcel Ichac brought back from there the Carnets diving film (presented and preceded

title: Jean-Michel Cousteau

text: of photographer's water-related imagery and interviews with prominent world personalities on the problems facing our water supply. Cousteau is also Chairman of Green Cross France. Cousteau advocates for a world free of nuclear weapons, and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Cousteau is working on a documentary highlighting the epic and disastrous 2010 Gulf Oil Spill in which 11 workers were killed during an explosion of deepwater rig off the coast of Louisiana. In 2012, he published the book "My Father, The Captain: My Life with Jacques Cousteau". Jean-Michel Cousteau is the President

title: En attendant Cousteau

text: Jean Michel Jarre. En attendant Cousteau En attendant Cousteau (English title: Waiting for Cousteau) is the tenth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor, in 11 June 1990. The album was dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was released on his 80th birthday 11 June 1990. Allmusic described the album as "groundbreaking stuff", due to its extreme stylistic differences from his other albums. The album reached Number 14 in the UK charts. The title track is a composition in the ambient style and an edited version of the music he produced

title: En attendant Cousteau

text: En attendant Cousteau En attendant Cousteau (English title: Waiting for Cousteau) is the tenth studio album by French electronic musician and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, released on Disques Dreyfus, licensed to Polydor, in 11 June 1990. The album was dedicated to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and was released on his 80th birthday 11 June 1990. Allmusic described the album as "groundbreaking stuff", due to its extreme stylistic differences from his other albums. The album reached Number 14 in the UK charts. The title track is a composition in the ambient style and an edited version of the music he produced for "Concert d'Images"

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: Naval College). In 1943, they made the film "Épaves" ("Shipwrecks"), in which they used two of the very first Aqua-Lung prototypes. These prototypes were made in Boulogne-Billancourt by the Air Liquide company, following instructions from Cousteau and Émile Gagnan. When making "Épaves", Cousteau could not find the necessary blank reels of movie film, but had to buy hundreds of small still camera film reels the same width, intended for a make of child's camera, and cemented them together to make long reels. Having kept bonds with the English speakers (he spent part of his childhood in the United States and

title: Jean-Michel Cousteau

text: his legendary father traveled with their teams the entire length of the Amazon to document, learn, and see for themselves. In 2006, Cousteau's documentary "Voyage to Kure" inspired then U.S. President George W. Bush to protect the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, making it—with its of ocean waters, islands, and atolls—one of the largest Marine Protected Areas in the world. Unless noted otherwise, all are appearances as himself. Jean-Michel Cousteau Jean-Michel Cousteau (born 6 May 1938) is a French oceanographic explorer, environmentalist, educator, and film producer. The first son of ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, he is the father of Fabien Cousteau

title: Pierre-Antoine Cousteau

text: most well-known post-war work was "Les lois de l'hospitalité" in which he justified collaboration, arguing "we [the collaborators] did not commit an error of judgement. There were just too many tanks and too many planes against us". He fell seriously ill in the late 1950s and had to withdraw from politics, requiring regular blood transfusions to survive. He died age 52 in Paris. Pierre-Antoine Cousteau Pierre-Antoine Cousteau (18 March 1906 – 17 December 1958) was a French far right polemicist and journalist. He was the brother of the famous explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. He was born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, and educated

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: co-produced with Malle. In 1957, Cousteau took over as leader of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. Afterward, with the assistance of Jean Mollard, he made a "diving saucer" SP-350, an experimental underwater vehicle which could reach a depth of 350 meters. The successful experiment was quickly repeated in 1965 with two vehicles which reached 500 meters. In 1957, he was elected as director of the Oceanographical Museum of Monaco. He directed Précontinent, about the experiments of diving in saturation (long-duration immersion, houses under the sea), and was admitted to the United States National Academy of Sciences. He was involved in

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: the creation of Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques and served as its inaugural president from 1959 to 1973. Cousteau also took part in inventing the "SP-350 Denise Diving Saucer" in 1959 which was an invention best for exploring the ocean floor, as it allowed one to explore on solid ground. In October 1960, a large amount of radioactive waste was going to be discarded in the Mediterranean Sea by the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA). The CEA argued that the dumps were experimental in nature, and that French oceanographers such as Vsevelod Romanovsky had recommended it. Romanovsky and other French

title: Philippe Cousteau

text: Navy during the Algerian war as a sonar operator and member of the landing party of the Le Normand ship, later earning his degree in science, spent another year at MIT, and then went to Paris to train in cinematography, graduating from I'École technique de photographie et de cinéma (now called École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière) in Paris. In 1965, Cousteau was an Oceanaut on the Conshelf III, an undersea habitat for saturated diving down to 325 feet near Ile Levant in the Mediterranean Sea. In addition to his duties as Oceanaut, Cousteau was an underwater photographer and did all of

title: Jacques Cousteau

text: out the first prototype aqua-lung which finally made extended underwater exploration possible. In 1946, Cousteau and Tailliez showed the film "Épaves" ("Shipwrecks") to Admiral Lemonnier, who gave them the responsibility of setting up the Groupement de Recherches Sous-marines (GRS) (Underwater Research Group) of the French Navy in Toulon. A little later it became the GERS (Groupe d'Études et de Recherches Sous-Marines, = Underwater Studies and Research Group), then the COMISMER ("COMmandement des Interventions Sous la MER", = "Undersea Interventions Command"), and finally more recently the CEPHISMER. In 1947, Chief Petty Officer Maurice Fargues became the first diver to die using

title: Fabien Cousteau

text: Fabien Cousteau attended Norfolk Academy in Virginia and graduated from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in environmental economics. After school, Cousteau worked as a marketer for Seventh Generation. "I decided to start up in a different career, in which my name would not help me, just to see if I could survive", he explained. After three years, he returned to the family business, working for his father at Deep Ocean Odyssey, an exploration company founded by his grandfather. Cousteau said he did "very well" in business, "but it really left me kind of empty." He then spent time as

title: Voyage to the Edge of the World

text: Voyage to the Edge of the World Voyage to the Edge of the World () is a 1976 French nature documentary film directed by Jacques-Yves Cousteau, his son Philippe Cousteau and Marshall Flaum. The film follows a four months expedition through Antarctica undertaken between the end of 1972 and the beginning of 1973. It was Cousteau's third and last full-length film, following "The Silent World" (1956) and "World Without Sun" (1964). As a difference with those two earlier Cousteau films, both mainly narrated by Jacques-Yves Cousteau himself, on this film Jacques-Yves' voice-over alternates with co-director Philippe Cousteau's voice. In December

title: Philippe Cousteau

text: They had two children, Alexandra Cousteau and Philippe Cousteau Jr. He died aged 38 in 1979, when his PBY Catalina flying boat crashed in the Tagus river near Lisbon. The aircraft nosed over during a high-speed taxi run undertaken to check the hull for leakage. The propeller detached from the engine and killed Cousteau instantly. All others on board survived. His son Philippe Cousteau Jr. was born six months later. Philippe Cousteau received many awards and honors for his contribution to diving and underwater photography: Several Emmy's and nominations for several more Emmy's, NOGI Award for Arts from the Underwater

title: Fabien Cousteau

text: so graceful and so deceivingly calm, and very sure of themselves." For several weeks in 2005, Cousteau navigated among the sharks near Guadalupe Island, Mexico. The resulting documentary, entitled "", aired on CBS in 2006. In total, Cousteau filmed 170 hours of footage which were made available for scientific study. According to Cousteau, his crew was able to get good data on great white territorial boundaries. One night, while operating Troy, Cousteau lost contact with his support vehicles. "I ended up anchoring Troy and swimming in absolute darkness to Isla de Guadalupe", he recalled. "That was the fastest I've ever

title: French ship Jacques Cartier (L9033)

text: and to heavy helicopters. "Jacques Cartier" was deployed to East Timor as part of the Australian-led INTERFET peacekeeping taskforce from 28 November 1999 to 12 January 2000. She was decommissioned in July 2013 after returning from her final deployment overseas. French ship Jacques Cartier (L9033) Jacques Cartier (L9033) is one of five BATRAL ("Light ferry ship") vessels operated by the French Navy. The BATRAL vessels are able to ferry over 400 tons of matériel, in the hangar and on the deck. Loading and unloading can be done from a harbour or from a beach. Two flat-bottom vessels allow unloading 50

title: What a Beautiful Name

text: What a Beautiful Name "What a Beautiful Name" is a song by Australian praise and worship group Hillsong Worship. The song, written and led by Brooke Ligertwood and co-written with Ben Fielding, refers to the promise of salvation through Jesus Christ as represented by His Holy Name. The "genre-smashing single" contributed to Hillsong being named "Billboard"s Top Christian Artist of 2017. "What a Beautiful Name" won two Dove Awards for Song of the Year and Worship Song of the Year in 2017. It won the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song. "What a Beautiful Name" was released

title: Philippe Cousteau Jr.

text: ABC's Good Morning America and Sam Champion and later CNN. Cousteau was the first person to scuba dive on television into the spill. From 2010 through 2014 Cousteau was a Special Correspondent for CNN International and the host of Going Green, a series that explored critical conservation issues around the world. In addition, Cousteau hosted Expedition Sumatra for CNN in 2013, an 8-part series exploring the deforestation crisis in Sumatra, Indonesia. Since 2014, Cousteau has been the host and executive producer of Xploration Awesome Planet, a series syndicated on FOX and Hulu. In 2015 he was nominated for a Daytime

title: James Dugan (historian)

text: the war. Dugan had a long-lasting connection with Jacques Cousteau. Dugan first met Cousteau in 1944 during the liberation of France. At this time he was a "Yank magazine" correspondent. Much of his writing in the 50's and 60's concerns underwater exploration with Captain Jacques Cousteau. Dugan received the Grand Prix, Cannes International Film Festival award for the documentary "The Silent World" in 1956. He was also part of the team that produced the Academy Award-winning documentaries "The Silent World" (1956) and "World Without Sun" (1964). Dugan wrote the narration for both films. Dugan edited Cousteau's books "The Silent World"

title: Fabien Cousteau

text: goliath groupers, humpback whales, a rare giant Pacific octopus, and spawning coral. They also visited various shipwrecks including a sunken Civil War battleship, and talked ecologists. Cousteau said the goal of the show was to "make these special places real for viewers everywhere". The Cousteau family's acclaimed PBS series "Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures" continued on thru 2009, with its expeditions spanning from the Arctic to Papua New Guinea to the Amazon and covering topics from climate change to indigenous cultures. Originally scheduled for November 2013, Mission 31 was postponed to June 2014 due to a US federal government shutdown. From

title: French ship Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1795)

text: French ship Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1795) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, active during the French Directory, French Consulate and First French Empire. Renamed "Marengo" in 1802, she took part in Linois' operations in the Indian Ocean before her capture by the Royal Navy. Construction of "Jean-Jacques Rousseau" began in September 1794 at Toulon, and she was launched on 21 July 1795. In October 1796, under Captain Racord, she was part of the Villeneuve's squadron that sailed from Toulon to Brest. On 2 December 1802, she was renamed to Marengo, reflecting the political change

title: Jacques de Kervor

text: he was working on a new faucet design and eye protection for military personnel. While being cared for by hospice, he even worked on improving the comfort of others in his situation. De Kervor died in San Diego, where he lived two years, in June 2010. He had five children. Jacques de Kervor Jacques Edouard de Kervor (August 13, 1928 – June 24, 2010) was an inventor and industrial designer. Among de Kervor's achievements was one of Delta's first single-handle faucets. He also helped design the 1955 Ford Thunderbird. De Kervor also designed equipment for Jacques Cousteau, a Voit jet

title: Jacques de Kervor

text: Jacques de Kervor Jacques Edouard de Kervor (August 13, 1928 – June 24, 2010) was an inventor and industrial designer. Among de Kervor's achievements was one of Delta's first single-handle faucets. He also helped design the 1955 Ford Thunderbird. De Kervor also designed equipment for Jacques Cousteau, a Voit jet diving fin, models for Disneyland, and the toy robot Maxx Steele. He also designed John Deere farm equipment, office equipment, televisions and toys. De Kervor was born in Vichy, France. Though only 11 when his country fell to Germany, he nevertheless fought for the resistance in World War II. In

title: Céline Cousteau

text: partner Çapkin van Alphen, an Australian cameraman. Through CauseCentric Productions, Céline Cousteau attempts to create multi-media content to extend the reach of humanitarian and environmental stories. The Céline Cousteau Film Fellowship attempts to allow young filmmakers, creatives, and activists to motivate change through storytelling. Throughout her career, Cousteau has worked on over 18 documentaries as director, producer, and presenter. Besides the short films she produces under CauseCentric, she has spent years working on a major documentary film and engagement campaign, Tribes on the Edge. This project began as a result of a request by the tribes of the Vale do

title: The Sacred Mirror of Kofun

text: was produced by Paris-based Future Concepts, a subsidiary of IDP. It was envisioned as the first part of an edutainment multimedia title series under the name "The Interactive Adventures of Jean-Michel Cousteau". Cousteau was excited by the possibilities of interactive CD-ROM technology which would not only help his work reach young people, but allow them to participate. Pre-production begun in early 1995, and development and design took place in Paris, simultaneously with filming. The project cost roughly 8 million French francs. The virtual setting of the ship "Antares" was designed with Cousteau's naval officer as a consultant. According to Cousteau,

title: Jacques Rougerie (architect)

text: Jacques Rougerie (architect) Jacques Rougerie( born July 11, 1945 in Paris) is a French architect-oceanographer who specializes in underwater habitats. Born in 1945 to a mathematician mother and a biogeographer father, companion of Theodore Monod, Rougerie lived in Ivory Coast until he turned 11. After moving to France, he entered The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts when he was 19, in 1964, in the Auguste Perret workshop directed by Andre Remondet and Paul Maymont. Inspired by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and first underwater habitats, he took classes in Institut Océanographique de Paris in 1970, while studying at French Institute of Urbanism and

title: Jacques Rougerie (architect)

text: is also involved in floating hotels and universities projects. Jacques Rougerie (architect) Jacques Rougerie( born July 11, 1945 in Paris) is a French architect-oceanographer who specializes in underwater habitats. Born in 1945 to a mathematician mother and a biogeographer father, companion of Theodore Monod, Rougerie lived in Ivory Coast until he turned 11. After moving to France, he entered The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts when he was 19, in 1964, in the Auguste Perret workshop directed by Andre Remondet and Paul Maymont. Inspired by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and first underwater habitats, he took classes in Institut Océanographique de Paris in

title: Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

text: Ashlan Gorse Cousteau Ashlan Gorse Cousteau (born December 14, 1980) is an American entertainment journalist and explorer. She is known for her work with E! News, Discovery Channel, and Travel Channel. She married Philippe Cousteau Jr. in September 2013, and they have produced and appeared together in several educational and environmental television programs. When Gorse was seven, the 1988 Raleigh tornado destroyed her home. Gorse graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Journalism with a BA in broadcasting and a minor in music. She began her professional career in the exclusive NBC page program in

title: Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

text: speech. They married on September 25, 2013 in a civil ceremony at the City Hall of the 8th arrondissement in Paris, France, and had a second ceremony on September 28, 2013 at the Château d’Esclimont in Saint-Symphorien-le-Château. Ashlan Gorse Cousteau Ashlan Gorse Cousteau (born December 14, 1980) is an American entertainment journalist and explorer. She is known for her work with E! News, Discovery Channel, and Travel Channel. She married Philippe Cousteau Jr. in September 2013, and they have produced and appeared together in several educational and environmental television programs. When Gorse was seven, the 1988 Raleigh tornado destroyed her

title: French ship Jacques Cartier (L9033)

text: French ship Jacques Cartier (L9033) Jacques Cartier (L9033) is one of five BATRAL ("Light ferry ship") vessels operated by the French Navy. The BATRAL vessels are able to ferry over 400 tons of matériel, in the hangar and on the deck. Loading and unloading can be done from a harbour or from a beach. Two flat-bottom vessels allow unloading 50 men and light vehicles each. The accommodations are designed for a "Guépard"-type intervention unit (5 officers, 15 petty officers and 118 men), or for typical company-sized armoured units. A helicopter landing deck allows landing for light helicopters, and transfer from

title: French ship Thérèse (1665)

text: English, Scottish, Germans and Greeks, to fight alone against over 60,000 Turks. A few days later Morosini was informed that Turkish reinforcements had arrived in Crete, and decided to surrender the city. He signed the capitulation on 6 September and the city was handed over to the Turks. Manolis Voutsalas, a Greek diver, discovered the wreck of "La Thérèse", but initially was unsure of her identity. In 1976 Jacques Cousteau visited Crete and Voutsalas showed him the site of the shipwreck, west of the port of Heraklion. Cousteau, after several dives, identified it as the shipwreck of "La Thérèse". The

title: Philippe Cousteau Anchor Museum

text: Philippe Cousteau Anchor Museum The Philippe Cousteau Anchor Museum (: Museo de Anclas Philippe Cousteau) is located in Salinas, a town within the Castrillón municipality of Asturias, Spain. It is reached by the N-632. The open-air museum is situated on La Peñona peninsula at one end of the beach near the Arnao tunnel. It includes sails and deck anchors, along with a large, ceramic mural. The featured bust of Philippe Cousteau is the work of sculptor Vicente Menendez-Santarúa Prendes. One of the anchors is from the bulk carrier "Castillo de Salas" that ran aground over rocks near Gijon in 1986.

title: Philippe Cousteau Anchor Museum

title: Victory ship

text: the design of what came to be known as the Victory class. Initially designated EC2-S-AP1, where EC2 = Emergency Cargo, type 2 (Load Waterline Length between ), S = steam propulsion with AP1 = one aft propeller (EC2-S-C1 had been the designation of the Liberty ship design), it was changed to VC2-S-AP1 before the name "Victory Ship" was officially adopted on 28 April 1943. The ships were built under the Emergency Shipbuilding program. The design was an enhancement of the Liberty ship, which had been successfully produced in extraordinary numbers. Victory ships were slightly larger than Liberty ships, longer at

title: Fabien Cousteau

text: a diving and underwater product tester while looking for a company to appoint him "explorer-in-residence". In 2002, Cousteau went out on his own, launching his first expedition without family help: a dive where filmed his interactions with bull sharks in the Bahamas. He spent three months filming sharks for what would become his first "National Geographic Explorer" special, "Attacks of the Mystery Shark". In filming, he was "shocked at how few encounters we had. We would go past a school of 50 or 60 sharks during feeding and not one paid any attention to us." The episode, which debuted on

title: Turbosail

text: use a turbosail, but that design was not built. The turbosail should not be confused with the very similar-looking rotor ship, which also has vertical "sails". Unlike the turbosail which has limited movement, a rotor ship continually spins its sails and generates lift through the Magnus effect. In 1980, Jacques Cousteau dreamed of creating a ship with a modern engine that would be powered, at least in part, by the wind, a clean, free, renewable energy source. Cousteau and his associates, Professor Lucien Malavard and Dr. Bertrand Charrier, used a fixed cylinder that looked like a smokestack and functioned like

title: Bucentaure-class ship of the line

text: the Austrians following their seizure of that city, but was broken up on the stocks in 1818-19. A second ship was ordered at Venice in 1813, but was never laid down. Finally a further ship of this class was ordered in 1812 at Rochefort, but was never laid down or even assigned a name. Bucentaure-class ship of the line The "Bucentaure" class was a class of 80-gun French ships of the line built to a design by Jacques-Noël Sané from 1802 onwards, of which at least 29 were ordered but only 21 ships were launched. They were a development from

title: Fabien Cousteau

text: swam." On another occasion, Troy broke got pinned at the bottom of the sea. After some tense moments, his dive team was eventually able to free Cousteau and bring him to the surface. After the project was complete, he declared "I'm done with sharks for now. There are so many [other] things I want to explore". From August 2005 to March 2006, Cousteau and his sister led a series of dives at the United States' 13 marine sanctuaries. The footage was turned into a two-part episode of "" called "America's Underwater Treasures." Among other things, the team captured footage of

title: Jean-Michel Cousteau

text: makes an appearance interacting with the characters from the film, Marlin, Nemo and Dory, and touting the need for better pollution control, showing videos of polluted coral reefs. Jean-Michel Cousteau made a new documentary series "Ocean Adventures "released in 2006. Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society, KQED and PBS are continuing production on the "Ocean Adventures" series for 2007 and 2008. In October 2006, Jean-Michel Cousteau, and an expedition team that includes his son Fabien and daughter Céline, began filming along the Amazon River. Twenty years ago scientists predicted devastation and irreversible environmental damage here, and 25 years ago Jean-Michel Cousteau and

title: Fabien Cousteau

text: was designed to survive a shark attack. Sharks appeared to view Troy as another shark. They stayed about away from it, the length of an adult shark, and rolled their eyes, puffed their gills, and changed directions in response to it. These behaviors were observed only in the presence of the submarine, not with free divers, although Cousteau said he was hesitant to say it proved the sharks saw Troy as a shark. Cousteau called the experience of being surrounded by up to five great white sharks at once a "humbling experience. They're like 747s underwater ... but they are

title: Fabien Cousteau

text: 4 August 2002, investigated a recent rise of bull shark attacks and a 1916 incident when a shark was blamed for four deaths in New Jersey, two of them upstream in Matawan Creek. "The Globe and Mail" described the special: If you "get through the corny setup ... this special offers some good television." A second shark documentary followed shortly thereafter. Also in 2002, Cousteau began work on a children's book called "The Prince of Atlantis" and founded an online conservation organization named Planet Riders. In 2004, Cousteau was asked to make a new shark documentary. Having already made two,