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Also Known As Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Born June 11, 1910 • France
Died June 25, 1997 (aged 87) • Paris • France
Notable Works “The Silent World”

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Jacques Cousteau
Jacques Cousteau wearing a headset and microphone, dressed in a button-up shirt and beanie, looking forward in a black and white portrait.
Jacques Cousteau peers out from a two-man underwater observation chamber on the deck of the Calypso, docked beside an industrial building in New York City, 1959.
Bronze statue of a scuba diver with a camera, representing Jacques Cousteau, sits on a pedestal by the sea promenade in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, overlooking the water.
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