Brief biography of the Cousteau

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. It was he who invented the scuba dummy commander of the Order of the Honorary Legion. In the photo: Jacques-Yve Kouso, the person of the French oceanographer aroused genuine interest until the end of his life and after his death in the year. Who is he, this boostly? A sea wolf with a cute smile, a brilliant scientist, or an adventurer who makes money from the bottom of the oceans?

One thing can be said for sure - this person has changed the world. At the time of birth, his parents were already raising his older brother Pierre Antoine. The father, a well -known lawyer in France, still received a docto of law in his youth. Mom, the daughter of the pharmacist, did not continue the pharmacy business, was engaged in the house and children. Daniel’s income gave the family the opportunity to travel.

Little Jacques-Yve enthusiastically learned to swim and dive while resting on the coast. Sea water seemed to be fed up, but for some time the loads had to be forgotten: when the boy was 7, the doctors diagnosed him with chronic enteritis, the reason for the unnatural thinness of the baby. In childhood, Jacques-Yve Cousteau lost his job during the First World War, and the family moved to the States, where he was offered a place in the lawyer's office.

The sons were sent to a school, where they willy-nilly began to master English. The boosta turned twelve when the whole family returned to their homeland again. Jacques-IV entered the Paris College “Stanislas” at that time and was carried away by invention. He independently built an electric car, and bought Pathe film camera and enthusiastically shot everything that, in his opinion, deserved attention.

He decided to embody the Jacques-Yu-Ivan Kousto a long-standing dream of the sea at the age of twenty, entering the Ekol Naval naval school, where officers for the navy of France were being prepared. During a stop in Vietnam, the young man was attracted by pearl catchers. Without any devices, fishermen dived from boats into the sea and caught fish with their bare hands.

Cousteau became interested in how this could be, and they explained to him that fish also have a siesta, during which it is easy to catch it. Later, the Ocean researcher will tell that this particular conversation was a turning point in his fate. Jacques-Yve Cousteo during the years of study at Ekol Naval convinced that there was a great future behind the underwater swimming, Kouzo received the position of instructor during the service on the Sufren cruiser.

He seriously engaged in immersion as soon as he returned home in the late thirties. France surrendered to Nazi Germany in the year of the sea depths in the year. Miraculously avoiding captivity, Jacques Ev settled on the Baobab villa in the small coastal city of Sanari-Sur-Merus and began to prepare for the study of the ocean. The first scuba gear Jacques-Ivan Kousto together with engineer Emil Galyan, he developed the first equipment for underwater dives.

Jacques-Yve Cousteau in his youth, the crown of their joint experiments, became the world's first acwalang world, which gave freedom of movement under water. In the book “In the world of silence”, Kousto will describe the sensations from the invention: it was like in dreams: I could stop and hang in space, not relying, not tied to any hoses and tubes. Previously, I often dreamed that I was flying, straightening my hands-wings.

And now I really soared I presented in my place a diver moving with great difficulty with its bulky galoshes, tied to a long intestine and put on a copper cap in a foreign country! In the year, together with Frederick Dumas and Philip Taye Kousto, he presented the first documentary to the audience to the audience, shot below the marine level - “At a depth of 18 meters” dedicated to the underwater hunting.

Prior to this, technical capabilities simply did not allow films under water. The film "At a depth of 18 meters" at the First Congress of documentary cinema received the main prize. Further - more. After the war, Jacques-Iv showed one of the films shot to the admiral of the French Navy Andre Lemonier, whose efforts were created for underwater research. The famous photo with the octopus, the small team, led by Kousto, did not disdain any earnings: the bays were cleared from unexploded German bombs, conducted reconnaissance in the Persian Gulf for the presence of hydrocarbons.

All this steadily led to the main goal - the development of oceanography. In the year, Jacques-IV received at his disposal the written off the minesweeper of the British allies. The millionaire from Ireland Thomas Guinness, who became interested in the activities of Kousto, helped him to redeem and convert the ship. The ship was called "Calipso" and soon began to plow the ocean under the leadership of his captain and master.

The film of the same name won the Golden Palm Branch in Cannes and Oscar in Hollywood. In the world of silence. The film in the fifties Jacques-IV created a center of marine research in Marseille, became the director of the oceanographic museum in Monaco, released several new films. He was accused of predatory, as Kousto allowed the fish dynamite to jam, and he explained this by the fact that only in such a way could “make an accurate account of all species inhabiting this range”.Cousteau and his mini-batister “Diving Steveler” throughout his life Jacques-Yve visited dozens of expeditions, especially “The Underwater Odyssey of the Cousteau team” was especially remembered.

The film was released by all countries of the world for twenty years. And in the year, the researcher was recognized as a “man of the year” according to BAFTA, became the owner of many state and cinema awards. The researcher was gladly accepted on Soviet television. Talked with Kusto Nikolai Drozdov. The Frenchman also gave a lecture at the Oceanology Institute. But he was not allowed into the waters of the Black Sea due to the large number of military facilities.

Two sons appeared in the marriage-Jean-Michel and Philip. The wife became her husband’s partner on expeditions and the first woman-diver. Jacques-Yve Cousteau and his wife Simon Cousta was not absolutely faithful to Simone, but she looked at his hobbies and fleeting novels through her fingers. But during one of the flights to the international conference, Jacques-Yve met a young stewardess Francin Triple.

These relations grew into a deep feeling, the researcher took with him a friend on many trips, where his wife did not travel, representing her with her niece and hiding an affair with a girl with all his might. The Kuo family underwater in the year of the Coosta family suffered grief: the son of Philip died in a plane crash. In a fit of frankness, Jacques-Yve told Simone about the second family, where the daughter Diana was born in the same year.

The wife did not forgive this betrayal, they began to live separately, although they did not divorce. In the year, it became known about the incurable disease of Simone - she died of cancer. A year after that, Kuo married a triple and lived with her until the end of his days. Death and memory a year before his death, the oceanologist started a lawsuit against his own son from Simona.

He was 87 years old, and the weakened body lost the virus. Against the backdrop of complications, there was a heart attack, from which the famous researcher died on June 25. Kouzo was buried in the same city where he was born-Saint-Andre de Kubzak, in the cemetery, where all his ancestors lie. Despite the death of the primary research of the ocean, the work of his life continues now.

The grave of Jacques-Ivan Kousto in the year French director Jerome Salle made a sincere and piercing film about the life and family of a famous researcher called Odyssey. The leading role, Lambert Wilson, insisted that the human qualities of the Cousteau, if shown in the picture are unpleasant, then only in order to more fully recreate the “deep and sincere image of this incredible person”, which made so much good for humanity.

Important events in life year: entered the naval school "Ekol Naval".

He shot the first documentary "at a depth of 18 meters", which won the main prize at the first documentary cinema congress. Daughter Diana from the stewardess Francin Triple was born. I received the prime time of the Emmy Prize for the film "Cousteau at Mississippi. The ally involuntarily. " He died of myocardial infarction at the age of 87. Jacques-IV KUSTO: Latest news and articles.