Jacques Yves Cousteau
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau AC 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth11 June 1910
CountryFrance
life good-morning miracle
I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
ocean marine sea
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
ocean men sea
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
ocean hands infinite
The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature and for humankind an infinite love.
ocean men free-diving
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
beach nature ocean
The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.
nature travel ocean
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
thinking play serious
I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.