Jacques Cousteau

Today I want to write about the famous explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist - Jacques-Yves Cousteau. You might know him for his popular movie series - "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau"

I used to watch them on TV when I was a kid in the beginning of 90s last century. His films impressed me so much, but I couldn't understand how really great had been his work had been. Actually Cousteau was the fist person to who to invented aqualung or scuba and made it popular for common people. And he was the first person who constructed the underwater video-camera and opened the beauty of the seas for millions of people.

Thanks to him today I can dive myself and see the beauty of Undersea World with my own eyes.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his Calypso team made a great work to save the diversity of flora and fauna to the future generations, for us. The main point in his films is a wildlife conservation.

Nowadays in spite of old TV records they are still very interesting and inspiring to see. I don't know any of modern products of that quality. If you know, please tell me.

Jacques Cousteau died in Paris in 1997, aged 87. His last film was finished after his death by his son Jean-Michel. It was the film about the greatest lake on Earth "Lake Baikal: Beneath the Mirror". If you are interested in Russia, you might want to watch it.

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(wow amzing he must have been a very great person)