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Cousteau Kids Magazine Online! Exploring nature and science around the world
URL: http://www.cousteaukids.org/
Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born in St. André de Cubzac, France, in 1910, and entered the French Naval Academy in 1930. From 1933 to 1935, he served in the Far East, aboard a cruiser and ashore in Shanghai. He trained as a Navy flier until a serious automobile accident ended his aviation career. Then, he tried underwater goggles for the first time, and his future course was set. In 1943, he and Emile Gagnan developed the first regulated compressed-air breathing device for sustained, unencumbered diving, called SCUBA. After World War II, he created, with Commander Philippe Tailliez and Frederic Dumas, an underwater research unit to carry out technical experiments and laboratory studies in diving.
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