Jacques Cousteau Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born in St. Andre de Cubazac, France in 1910. The son of a lawyer, Jacques was warned by doctors to avoid strenuous activities due to chronic enteritis and anenemia. This did not affect his sense for adventure. At age 11, he built a foot working model of a two hundred ton marine crane. At age 13, he made a battery powered automobile. In 1930, at the age of twenty, Jacques entered the French Naval Academy. Form 1933 to 1935 he served in the Far East
Jacques Coustean The country of France has contributed many brilliant cultural figures over their nation’s history. There is a long and complicated history of rulers, musicians, artists, and philosophers. But what name was the first to come to mind when I began to search for an artist from my ancestor’s country of origin? None other than Jacques Cousteau, the red-knit-cap-wearing, fishy-loving filmmaker who pioneered underwater photography. Through the use of documentary, Cousteau brought up
Jacques Cousteau was a man of numerous works and various talents during his lifetime. In America he was well known for having several positions in his career. For example, he was a marine officer, oceanographer, scientist, conservationist, filmmaker, and an underwater explorer. However, in overseas countries, Cousteau was well-known for his documentary television show called the “Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.” Lastly, but certainly not least, Cousteau is the Creator of countless diving and
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Discovery What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what's going on. – Jacques Yves Cousteau. Never before has Cousteau been so right. Until recently, it seemed humanity had discovered all it could about its habitat. However in 1996, when European ERS-1 satellite focused on the Antarctic shelf, it depicted Lake Vostok, a subglacial lake the size of Lake Ontario, completely isolated by a two mile sheet of ice for at least
Scuba Diving “People have been diving ever since primitive man was forced to collect food from the sea,” says HawaiiScubaDiving.com (“History of Scuba Diving”, HawaiiScubaDiving.com Internet). Man has always been curious about the underwater world and has sought to explore it. This drove man to come up with new ways to extend his reach into the underwater world and to make the trip less difficult. Over time underwater exploration has been made easier due to man’s passion for exploring a fascinating
In chapter two of Underwater Archaeology, Bowens ask two important questions that any archeologist should consider, what is archeology and what is no archeology? An archeology has roots set in uncovering legends but officially define as identification and interpretation of material objects that were left behind from pervious ways of life using while using formal technics that are commonly used in geology to uncover material. When it comes to water archeology or land archeology they are no difference
advancement of modern civilization has had a great impact on our planet's natural resources with rapid increase of population, the use is also going to increase along with misuse of resources, thus disturbing its potential productive Capacity. As Jacques-Yves Cousteau has rightly said that water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. We are just misusing the resources and polluting our planet. The exploitation of resources
made it illegal to import any whale products. The United States lists the blue, bowhead, finback, gray, humpback, right, sei, and sperm whales as endangered species. Therefore, we should take goof care of whale. Works Cited Cousteau, Jacques, and Paccalet, Yves. Whales (W.H. Allen, 1998). Tinker, S.W. Whales of the World (Bess Press, 1997). Day, David. The Whale War (Sierra Club Books, 1997).
“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans” (Jacques-Yves Cousteau). Africa is a continent surrounded by water, yet many African villages suffer from lack of clean water. With the earth holding more than 7 billion people, water pollution is one of the major causes of human infection and death from such diseases. Because there are so many possible ways to become infected, many humans die from water pollution. In Africa, population is increasing
The history of technology begins two and a half million years ago with the stone age. Flint was split and sharpened to be used as a tool. Within a hundreds of thousands of years these stone tools became specialized for boring, scraping, cutting and sharp points. Five hundred thousand years ago in China, man discovers fire. The Neolithic period 8000BC of the Stone age brought about many new technologies. These technologies are pottery, textiles, bricks made in Jericho made of clay or mud and
Jacques-Yves Cousteau once said, “Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today” (“Population,” Internet). With the current statistics, Jacques could not be more accurate. Every second, 4.2 people are born and 1.8 people die, which would be a net gain of 2.4 people per second (“Population,” Internet). At this steady rate, the environmental health is spiraling downwards, and it is safe to assume humans are responsible for this. As the population increases, harmful
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to swim with the fish and explore the underwater jungle that covers two-thirds of the earth's surface? I have always been interested in water activities; swimming, diving and skiing, and I felt that scuba was for me. My first dive took place while on a family vacation. I came across a dive shop offering introductory dives, which immediately caught my interest. After much convincing (my parents), with my solemn assurance that I would be careful, I