Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer and explorer (born 1910)

Jacques Cousteau

French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater…