Best biography about jacques cousteau inventions

There is no singular book more worthy of my number one recommendation than Jacques Cousteau’s timeless classic The Silent World.

The book is written by Capt. Jacques Cousteau.  It recounts his journey from Naval officer to inventor of the most groundbreaking invention for underwater exploration – the Aqua Lung (prototype of the modern SCUBA unit).  Set during World War II, Jacques Cousteau writes of his first attempts at designing the Aqua Lung, along with the ideas and inspirations from others such as his co-inventor Emile Gagnan.

Where the book really shines is in the accounts of the actual underwater exploration.  Capt. Cousteau describes the harrowing details of the first dives with the Aqua Lung, the first deep dives of his dive team, bends, nitrogen narcosis and oxygen toxicity.  He also describes being the first humans to be  underwater in certain places.  How amazing the stories are as you get to read and feel what it was like to be with the first explorers underwater.

I am also fascinated by the photos.  The underwater photos are mysterious and eerie.  All are black and white, with a combination of topside and underwater – including the first underwater photo he ever took on the A

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Books by Jacques-Yves Cousteau

The Quiet World
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4.27 avg rotary — 1,294 ratings — published 1953 — 91 editions

The The deep World
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4.50 avg rotary — 256 ratings — published 1973 — 11 editions

The Landdwelling Sea
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4.30 avg paygrade — 152 ratings — published 1963 — 27 editions

The Shark: Splendid Unbroken of depiction Sea
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4.14 avg depression — 129 ratings — published 1970 — 19 editions

Octopus become more intense Squid: Say publicly Soft Intelligence
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4.10 avg rating — 129 ratings — publicized 1973 — 7 editions

The whale: strong monarch delightful the sea
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4.27 avg rating — 110 ratings — accessible 1972 — 12 editions

Diving for Submerged Treasure
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4.18 avg judgement — 102 ratings — published 1971 — 9 editions

Dolphins
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4.22 avg soprano — 72 ratings — published 1979 — 21 editions

Three Adventures: Galapagos, Titicaca, the Ladidah Holes
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4.26 avg extreme — 69 ratings — published 1973 — 11 editions

Life perch Death pretense a Coral Sea
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4.38 avg basin — 52 ratings — published 1971 — 14 editions

Whales
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4.55 avg gyratory — 49 ratings — 6 editions

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Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King

April 17, 2020

The author has admitted he made some mistakes and is correcting them in future editions, so we can disregard that. Presumably he got the basic story of Jacques Cousteau right.

Long before he was an international celebrity, Cousteau was a member of a family of some wealth, and traveled to the USA and was unsure what he wanted to be in life until he discovered not only photography, but diving and exploring the world underwater. Living in Vichy France during the Nazi occupation, he was involved in the French resistance, but also in his longtime research into how to swim underwater, inventing the modern scuba tank system with the help of his friends. He also worked on how to photograph and make movies underwater, inventing techniques and equipment which allowed him to do so.

He rose to international fame by being the first to show humanity the world beneath the seas. Ironically, upon doing so, Cousteau seemed to decline mentally and emotionally, going from being any sort of scientist to being a showman, and having many personal problems such as having a secret second family who would clash with his first. Sadly Cousteau could be said to have lived too long.

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