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
nature wall blue
Through the window of my mask I see a wall of coral, its surface a living kaleidoscope of lilac flecks, splashes of gold, reddish streaks and yellows, all tinged by the familiar transparent blue of the sea.
nature
We must go and see for ourselves.
travel nature angel
The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.
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.
order eugenics wiping-out
In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.
people population world
It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.
ocean men hands
Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction-up, down, sideways-by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.
growth environmental damage
Population growth is the primary source of environmental damage.
summer dream night
The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive. Charles Tennyson Turner - A Summer Night in the Bee Hive The happiness of the bee & the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that & to wonder at it.
hunting sea barbarians
Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.
science sea borders
There was wildlife, untouched, a jungle at the border of the sea, never seen by those who floated on the opaque roof. Describing his early experience, in 1936, when a fellow naval officer, Philippe Tailliez, gave him goggles to see below the Mediterranean Sea surface.
media nuclear submarines
A common denominator in every single nuclear accident - a nuclear plant or on a nuclear submarine - is that before the specialists even know what has happened, they rush to the media saying, 'There's no danger to the public.' They do this before they themselves know what has happened because they are terrified that the public might react violently, either by panic or by revolt.
ocean sea basements
The sea is not a bargain basement.