Biographies: June 11
Jacques Cousteau
Featured Biography Jacques Cousteau

My philosophy is not that of stones that say you must leave behind your estates and monuments, but of the wind—which says you blow wherever you want and do whatever you want when you want to do it.

Jacques Cousteau

Born this day in 1910 was French naval officer and ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, who conducted extensive undersea investigations, invented the Aqua-Lung, and wrote, produced, and appeared in films about the ocean.