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Who is the nouveau Cousteau?
When diver Jacques Cousteau died, he left behind a legacy of ocean exploration. But as his grandsons Fabien and Philippe look to seize his nautical throne, another tragic, troubled legacy has resurfaced. Is there enough ocean for all the Cousteaus to share, asks Kimberly Cutter.
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Source: Independent Digital | Independent.ie
| 11-10-2008
Captain Cousteau rose to prominence in 1943 for co-inventing the Aqua-Lung, the equipment that allowed a diver to swim underwater while breathing compressed air. The invention gave birth to scuba diving. Cousteau's ground-breaking movie The Silent World won him and director Louis Malle an Academy Award in 1956. But it was his television specials of the Seventies, such as The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau that made him a global celebrity. Parents and kids crowded around their TVs to watch as Cousteau and his team of French divers plunged into the glorious, terrifying, never-before-seen blue depths, calmly swimming amid hammerheads, diving off the coast of Greece in search of Atlantis.
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