My love for what lies beneath the sea is due to Jacques-Yves Cousteau: and the television show 'The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau' which introduced me to the wonders of the oceans. Creatures as alien as any that Hollywood could create and colors so vivid and bright that artists couldn't match them. And all this was found in nature. Thank you Mr. Cousteau. Wikepidiea --- Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Ocean Explorer, Conservationist and Father of Modern Scuba He may have been the most famous undersea explorer of our time. At the time of his death, CNN remembered Jacques Cousteau by saying, "For millions of people who see the ocean only through the porthole of television, the voice of the sea had a soft French accent." Indeed, Cousteau brought the undersea world to millions through books and films, and also helped thousands to enjoy the undersea world themselves as the co-inventor of the Aqua-Lung, which was the precursor to modern scuba diving equipment. During his lifetime, Captain Cousteau created more than 120 television documentaries and 50 books, won four Oscars and 10 Emmys, founded an environmental protection foundation, invented the Aqua-lung, correctly predicted the echolocation abilities of dolphins and porpoises before they were discovered, served as a consultant to the United Nations, and attained many other accomplishments too numerous to list. When he died in 1997, the chairman of the National Geographic Society, said: ''The ocean environment has lost its ...
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