Obituary: Jacques Cousteau

The Independent - London | June 26, 1997| | Copyright

As one of the world's most famous adventurers, Jacques Cousteau touched giant whales, befriended shy octopuses, confronted frenzied sharks. He produced and starred in almost a hundred films shown in scores of countries and hosted the most popular documentary series in television history. The author or co-author of some 80 books, Cousteau also co- invented the aqualung, launch- ed the science of undersea archaeology, advanced underwater photography, discovered oil beneath the ocean floor in the Persian Gulf, and built undersea stations and small submarines for oceanographic research.

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