Jaques Cousteau

On June 11, 1910, Jacques Cousteau was born. His family live in a small town called Saint Andre de Cubzac in France. Although he was a sickly child, Jacques’ parents never could have imagined their son to be doing what he was doing for the world of science and deep-sea exploration in the future. Even at early childhood, Jacques dreamed of finding buried pirate’s treasure. Times were hard for the Cousteau family in France, though. In 1920, …

…retired from the French Navy as a captain. Without Jacques Cousteau, Our society would have no knowledge at all of what lay beneath the first three feet of water in our world. But with Jacques Cousteau’s awesome achievements, we are able to go as deep as 1,000 feet below the ocean’s surface! All good things do have to come to an end, though, and on the morning of June 25, 1997, Jacques Cousteau was pronounced dead.