Jacques Cousteau

A naval officer who failed to become a pilot because he broke both arms in a car crash in 1935, and who spent the rest of his life underwater instead. With Emile Gagnan, an engineer who had been adapting regulators to run cars on wood gas, Cousteau made breathing at depth ordinary. He then did something rarer: he made the sea legible to people who would never dive, through the Calypso, three Academy Awards including one for a fiction film about a goldfish, and a television series that invented the grammar every nature documentary still uses. The same man surveyed the seabed for oil companies, blew up a reef and killed sharks on camera for The Silent World, was accused by his own wartime superior of claiming credit for operations he had abandoned, and sued his son a year before he died. This archive carries the apparatus, the ships and habitats, the films and the series, the conservation campaigns that helped win the Antarctic mineral ban, and the criticism, without deciding for you which of these is the real one.

A chronological documentary of 555 moments on Loreline.

Curated by Olivier · last updated 2026-09-03

1. 1910 - A fin whale hauled up at an Icelandic whaling station, before 1910. A fin whale being hauled ashore at Ellefsen's whaling station in Mjoafjordur. Photograph made before July 1910.
2. 1910 - The front of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, 1910. The principal facade of the museum Cousteau would run for three decades. The image dates from the year of his birth.
3. 1910 - Maurice Fernez, inventor of the free-swimming diving mask. Maurice Fernez, whose surface-supplied mask and nose clip freed the diver from the helmet. Cousteau's first underwater experience in 1936 was through a pair of Fernez goggles lent to him by Philippe Tailliez.
4. 1912 - Maurice Fernez preparing to dive with his apparatus, 1912. Fernez, at left, readying his breathing device in 1912. The Fernez system supplied air from the surface through a hose, with no cylinder.
5. 1912 - Fernez demonstrating his breathing apparatus. Maurice Fernez preparing a public demonstration of his diving apparatus.
6. 1913 - The Oceanographic Museum of Monaco from the sea, 1913. The sea facade of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, founded by Prince Albert I. Cousteau was its director from 1957 to 1988.
7. 1913 - The cetacean hall of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, 1913. The whale skeleton gallery at Monaco, built from Prince Albert I's expeditions. Cousteau directed this institution from 1957 to 1988.
8. 1916 - Underwater filming for Universal, reported in 1916. A New York Tribune feature of 30 July 1916 on men filming beneath the sea. Underwater cinema existed well before Cousteau; what he brought was a portable air supply and a mass audience.
9. 1920 - Cadets of the Ecole navale on parade. Officer cadets of the French Naval Academy parading. Cousteau entered the school in 1930 and was commissioned as a gunnery officer in 1933.
10. 1920 - Officer cadets reviewed at the Ecole navale. Ecole navale cadets passed in review at Brest. Cousteau joined the school in 1930 and left the navy in 1949 as a capitaine de corvette, not a captain as is often written.
11. 1926 - Commandant Yves Le Prieur with his diving apparatus, 1926. Yves Le Prieur at the Tourelles swimming pool in August 1926. His set was genuinely self-contained but used constant flow, not a demand valve: air ran continuously and the diver worked a tap by hand, so dive times were very short. That distinction is what the Cousteau-Gagnan regulator resolved.
12. 1926 - The Fernez-Le Prieur diving apparatus at the Salon nautique, 1926. The Fernez-Le Prieur set shown at the Paris boat show in 1926. Fernez and Le Prieur patented a hand-controlled constant-flow regulator with a full face mask that year, seventeen years before the Aqua-Lung.
13. 1927 - Entrance to the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, 1927. The museum entrance photographed in 1927, three decades before Cousteau took charge of it.
14. 1928 - An oxygen rescue helmet, 1928. A rescue oxygen helmet photographed for the press in 1928, part of the crowded field of French breathing apparatus that preceded the Aqua-Lung.
15. 1930 - The cruiser Jeanne d'Arc launched at Saint-Nazaire, 1930. The launch of the school cruiser Jeanne d'Arc on 14 February 1930. Cousteau entered the Ecole navale that year and made his world training cruise aboard her, filming with a camera he had bought as a teenager. Press photograph from the Agence Rol.
16. 1930 - The Jeanne d'Arc enters the water at Saint-Nazaire. A second press frame of the Jeanne d'Arc launch in February 1930.
17. 1930 - Emile Gagnan, the engineer who built the regulator. Emile Gagnan (1900-1979), the Air Liquide high-pressure gas engineer who miniaturised the demand regulator. He is routinely reduced to a footnote in the Cousteau story despite having built the mechanism.
18. 1930 - Standard diving dress in a naval museum. A complete set of standard diving dress at the Museum of the Polish Navy. Helmet, corselet, weighted boots and air line: the equipment that defined diving before 1943.
19. 1931 - A pneumatic chamber at the Le Bourget medical service, 1931. A pressure chamber used for aviation medicine at Le Bourget. Decompression physiology, developed for divers and airmen alike, is what set the depth limits Cousteau's teams worked against.
20. 1931 - Italian helmet divers Franceschi, Gianni and Bargellini, 1931. Three Italian helmet divers photographed in 1931. Heavy standard dress was still the professional norm when Cousteau began diving.
21. 1935 - The Jeanne d'Arc at Vancouver, 1935. The French school cruiser Jeanne d'Arc at Vancouver in January 1935. The ship carried each year's Ecole navale class around the world.
22. 1935 - The training cruiser Jeanne d'Arc in port. The Jeanne d'Arc alongside at Vancouver in January 1935. The annual world cruise took each Ecole navale class through the Pacific and the Far East.
23. 1940 - A US Navy Mark V diving helmet. A Mark V helmet by the Morse Diving Equipment Company, the standard US Navy hard-hat rig from 1916 into the 1980s. Dated to the object's service era, not to the modern photograph of it.
24. 1942 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Par 18 m de fond (1942). Par dix-huit metres de fond, shot in 1941 at the Embiez islands in the Var entirely on breath-hold, before the Aqua-Lung existed. Tailliez wrote the commentary, Dumas played the lead, and the waterproof camera housing was built by the engineer Leon Veche. It is the first French underwater film.
25. 1942 - A 1942 French diving apparatus. A wartime French diving set held by the departmental firefighters museum at Osny. Georges Commeinhes patented a working demand-valve scuba set in 1937 and 1942 and reached 53 metres, the strongest counter-example to Cousteau's claim of priority. He was killed at Strasbourg in 1944.
26. 1943 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Epaves (1943). Epaves, the first film shot with the Aqua-Lung. A screening for Admiral Lemonnier secured navy backing. French sources record that the 1942 and 1943 films were shot, in their phrase, under the surveillance and with the agreement of the Kriegsmarine.
27. 1943 - EPAVE (1943) - Jacques Yves Cousteau. Epave, 1943. The film exists because the Aqua-Lung had just been built, and it is the first demonstration of what the apparatus made possible on camera.
28. 1943 - Early Aqua Lung Prototypes in use by Cousteau. Archive film 33721. Archive film of early Aqua-Lung prototypes in use by Cousteau. The 1943 set paired a demand valve with compressed-air cylinders, giving the diver air only when he inhaled.
29. 1943 - The Cousteau-Gagnan Aqua-Lung, triple cylinder set. A surviving Cousteau-Gagnan Aqua-Lung with its triple cylinder set and box, originally sold as the scaphandre autonome. A modern museum photograph of a 1940s object, dated to the object.
30. 1943 - Aqua-Lung cylinder set and packaging, detail. A second view of a preserved Cousteau-Gagnan set. The demand valve was Emile Gagnan's miniaturisation, built in bakelite in 1942 to meter wood gas into car engines during the petrol requisition, not for diving.
31. 1943 - A Siebe Gorman set above a Cousteau-Gagnan Aqua-Lung. The British Siebe Gorman self-contained compressed air apparatus displayed above a Cousteau-Gagnan set. The comparison shows that the Aqua-Lung was one of several contemporaneous designs, not a solitary invention.
32. 1943 - The Cousteau-Gagnan regulator on display at Espalion. The demand valve of the scaphandre autonome invented by Cousteau and Emile Gagnan, exhibited at the Musee du Scaphandre in Espalion, Rouquayrol's home town. A museum record photograph of the 1940s device.
33. 1945 - US Navy underwater demolition team recovery, 1945. Recovery of an underwater demolition team swimmer by rubber boat. Wartime combat swimming, in France and America alike, ran in parallel with the development of autonomous diving. Public domain as a US federal work.
34. 1945 - A US Navy diver at the Washington diving school. Navy diver Harold Weisbrod at the Navy Diving School in Washington. Public domain as a US federal work. The precise year is not given in the source record.
35. 1945 - Student divers at the Deep Sea Diving School, Naval Gun Factory. Trainees at the US Navy Deep Sea Diving School in Washington. Public domain as a US federal work.
36. 1946 - Signing the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, 1946. The signing of the whaling convention in Washington on 2 December 1946, which created the International Whaling Commission. Public domain as a US federal work.
37. 1947 - EARLY JACQUES COUSTEAU FILM "SILENT LANDSCAPES" 1947 AQUA-LUNG DOCUMENTARY 61824. Silent Landscapes, an early Aqua-Lung documentary. Cousteau's filmography dates Paysages du silence to 1944 in some listings and 1947 in others.
38. 1947 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau - Paysages du Silence (1947). Paysages du silence. Cousteau's filmography dates the film to 1944 in some listings and 1947 in others; this print carries the later date.
39. 1947 - Underwater television camera controls aboard USS Coucal at Bikini, 1947. Control apparatus for an underwater television camera aboard the submarine rescue ship Coucal at Bikini Atoll on 23 August 1947, surveying the sunken test fleet. Public domain as a US federal work.
40. 1948 - The Mousquemers in 1948. Cousteau with the diving group later called the Mousquemers. Philippe Tailliez coined that name retroactively in 1975; it was not what the group called itself at the time, and there were four members including Leon Veche.
41. 1950 - Jacques Piroux and Dimitri Rebikoff, underwater archaeology, 1950s. Doctor Jacques Piroux and the engineer Dimitri Rebikoff, contemporaries of Cousteau working on underwater archaeology and imaging on the French coast.
42. 1950 - EARLY JACQUES COUSTEAU FILM A TOUR OF A REEF SHARKS 61814. An early Cousteau reef and shark film. Cousteau bought a cine camera as a teenager and filmed the Jeanne d'Arc world cruise in 1930-33, a decade before he could breathe underwater: he was a film-maker who learned to dive.
43. 1950 - Vintage scuba frogwoman running out of air, Hans Hass Movie. Vintage footage of Lotte Hass diving, from the Hans Hass films. She was among the first women to appear as an underwater performer on film.
44. 1950 - A frogman's self-contained diving set at Espalion. An early autonomous diving set displayed at the Musee du Scaphandre in Espalion. Museum photograph of a mid-century apparatus.
45. 1952 - " TEN FATHOMS DEEP " 1952 JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU EARLY SCUBA DIVING FILM 20172. Ten Fathoms Deep, an early Cousteau scuba film from 1952, made in the years the Calypso was working oil survey contracts in the Persian Gulf.
46. 1952 - Hans Hass Under the Red Sea Orginal English Version (1952) Classic Full Movie. Under the Red Sea in full. Hass used rebreathers rather than the open-circuit demand valve, a genuinely different machine.
47. 1953 - A scuba diver photographing an amphora field, 1953. A diver in autonomous apparatus photographing amphorae at the Titan wreck in spring 1953. This is what the Aqua-Lung made possible: archaeology conducted by a swimming diver rather than a man in a helmet on an air line.
48. 1953 - Pottery from the Grand Congloue wreck, 210 to 180 BC. Tableware recovered from the Grand Congloue wreck off Marseille, dated 210 to 180 BC. The Calypso worked this site from 1952, an early and contested campaign: archaeologists later criticised the excavation's method and record-keeping.
49. 1953 - A helmet diver descending at Amsterdam, 1953. A diver in standard dress going into the water at the Rokin in Amsterdam on 14 April 1953. Helmet diving was still ordinary working practice while the Aqua-Lung was reaching the market.
50. 1954 - Amphorae from the wreck of the Titan, 1954. Amphorae recorded at the Titan wreck site in 1954. The Calypso's own excavation at Grand Congloue near Marseille, begun in 1952, was among the first underwater archaeology campaigns to use autonomous divers.
51. 1954 - Hans Hass: Under the Caribbean (English Version 1954). Under the Caribbean, Hans Hass, 1954, made while Cousteau was shooting The Silent World.
52. 1955 - (Extrait) LE MONDE DU SILENCE - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle - 1955. An extract from Le Monde du silence credited to both Cousteau and Louis Malle, dated to the 1955 shoot.
53. 1955 - Diagram of a twin-hose aqualung. A rendering of the classic twin-hose aqualung layout, with cylinders on a backplate and the regulator at the neck. Public domain.
54. 1956 - Polémique Cousteau/Malle - Le monde du silence (1956). On the Cousteau and Malle dispute over Le Monde du silence. Malle's co-direction credit is routinely dropped when the film is described as Cousteau's.
55. 1956 - Le Monde du silence
56. 1956 - Jacques Cousteau = Žak Kusto 1956. godine : ,,Le Monde du silence = Svet tišine." Francuski zvuk.. Le Monde du silence with Serbian subtitles, evidence of how widely the film travelled after Cannes.
57. 1956 - The Silent World (english,720p). The Silent World at 720p. The film was shot over roughly two years across the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean on about 25,000 metres of Eastmancolor stock.
58. 1956 - Cousteau's Silent World: Shipwreck Excerpt. A shipwreck excerpt from The Silent World, showing the wreck diving that first made the team's reputation.
59. 1956 - Le Monde Du Silence (English dubbing ) Jacques Cousteau-Made in 1955 and first released in may 1956.. The Silent World in its English dub, as released in the United States by Columbia Pictures in September 1956 at 86 minutes.
60. 1956 - Silent World UW Filming. On the underwater filming methods used for The Silent World, shot on Eastmancolor over roughly two years.
61. 1956 - The Silent World of Jacques Cousteau - 1080p Best Quality - (Le Monde du silence) - 1956. Le Monde du silence, the feature shot aboard the Calypso in 1954 and 1955. It took the Palme d'Or at Cannes in May 1956 and the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1957. Louis Malle, then 22, served as cameraman and is credited as co-director; this was his first feature.
62. 1956 - The Silent World, 1956 (oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau). The Silent World. The book of the same title, written with Frederic Dumas and the American writer James Dugan, appeared in 1953 and is a separate work about the Elie Monnier campaigns.
63. 1956 - Jacques Cousteau à propos du Monde du Silence - 1956. Cousteau speaking about Le Monde du silence in 1956, the year of its release.
64. 1956 - Jacques Cousteau - The Silent World (Trailer to feel the spirit). A trailer cut for The Silent World. The film earned roughly three million dollars in US theatrical rentals.
65. 1956 - The Silent World: Jacques Cousteau 1956. The Silent World, 1956. The narration frames the shark killings as vengeance against what it calls the sailor's ancestral enemy.
66. 1956 - The Silent World 1956. Jacques Cousteau. FULL HD 1080P. Original movie. Le monde du silence.. The Silent World in a restored 1080p transfer. The film contains the dynamiting of a coral reef presented as a fish census, and the sequence in which the crew kill sharks with axes and gaffs after a whale calf is struck by the Calypso's propeller.
67. 1958 - Dunlop Aquafort swim fins, 1956 to 1962. Swim fins made by Dunlop between 1956 and 1962. A record photograph of the period object.
68. 1959 - The diving saucer Denise presented at Marseille, 1959. The SP-350 Denise, Cousteau's two-man diving saucer, presented in the port of Marseille in July 1959. Press photograph from the Dutch national archive.
69. 1959 - Cousteau's diving saucer SP-350 Denise. The SP-350 Denise, named soucoupe plongeante for its shape and 350 for its maximum depth in metres. A US Navy photograph, public domain as a federal work.
70. 1959 - The Golden Fish / Histoire d'un poisson rouge (1959 French Short Film). The Golden Fish, 1959. Counts that credit Cousteau with two Oscars, both for documentaries, are wrong on both halves: there were three, and this one is a short fiction film.
71. 1959 - Histoire d'un poisson rouge (Edmond Séchan, 1959). Histoire d'un poisson rouge, directed by Edmond Sechan and produced by Cousteau, winner of Best Live Action Short Subject at the 1960 Academy Awards.
72. 1959 - 16mm Film - Histoire d'un poisson rouge - The Golden Fish - F 1959. Histoire d'un poisson rouge scanned from a 16mm print. English Wikipedia's main Cousteau article lists only The Silent World and buries this award in a filmography table.
73. 1959 - The Golden Fish / Histoire d'un poisson rouge (1959 French Short Film) Public Domain Movies. Histoire d'un poisson rouge, or The Golden Fish, directed by Edmond Sechan and produced by Cousteau. It won Best Live Action Short Subject at the 32nd Academy Awards in 1960. It is a work of fiction about a boy, a goldfish and a cat, and it is the Cousteau Oscar that is almost always left out of the count.
74. 1959 - Louis Malle in 1959. Louis Malle, who co-directed The Silent World with Cousteau and shared its 1956 Palme d'Or and 1957 Academy Award. Malle was 23 at the time and went on to a major directing career of his own.
75. 1960 - An underwater photographer with a Mitchell Monitor 16mm camera. A diver operating a housed Mitchell Monitor 16mm camera off California. This is the class of rig The Silent World and World Without Sun were shot on. Public domain as a US federal work; the exact year is not given.
76. 1960 - A Bell and Howell 70-KMR 16mm camera. A Bell and Howell 70-KMR, the spring-driven 16mm design that dominated field documentary work for decades. A record photograph of the mid-century camera.
77. 1960 - Decompression chambers at the Imperia naval museum. Recompression chambers held by the Museo Navale di Imperia. A modern photograph of mid-century equipment, dated to the objects.
78. 1960 - A La Spirotechnique trade card. A business card of La Spirotechnique, the Air Liquide subsidiary set up in 1946 to manufacture the Aqua-Lung. French sources report Cousteau drew a royalty of about five per cent on sales, which is where the money for the expeditions began.
79. 1960 - A two-stage twin-hose demand valve. A Draeger twin-hose two-stage demand valve. The twin-hose layout, with the regulator behind the head, is the configuration Gagnan's design established and which held until single-hose sets displaced it.
80. 1960 - The duckbill exhaust valve of a twin-hose regulator. A rubber duckbill exhaust valve. Placing the exhaust level with the diaphragm was the fix that made the 1943 prototype work: at first intake and exhaust sat at different depths, so the regulator free-flowed or starved depending on the diver's posture.
81. 1961 - President Kennedy awards Cousteau the National Geographic gold medal, 1961. John F. Kennedy presenting the National Geographic Society gold medal to Cousteau, then director of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. A White House photograph, public domain as a US federal work.
82. 1961 - The Kennedy medal ceremony on the steps of the White House, 1961. A second frame from the April 1961 gold medal presentation. The award marked Cousteau's arrival as a public figure in the United States, five years before the television series began.
83. 1961 - The bathyscaphe Archimede preserved at Cherbourg. The French bathyscaphe Archimede, launched in 1961, now at the Cite de la Mer in Cherbourg. Dated to the vessel, which is a museum object photographed as a record.
84. 1961 - April 19, 1961 - President John F. Kennedy's Remarks to Jacques Yves Cousteau in the Rose Garden. President Kennedy's remarks to Jacques Cousteau in the Rose Garden on 19 April 1961.
85. 1962 - Diogenes, the Conshelf I habitat, 1962. The habitat Diogenes of Cousteau's Conshelf I, in which two men lived at 10 metres off Marseille for a week in 1962, the first sustained attempt at human habitation of the sea floor.
86. 1963 - Starfish House, Conshelf II in the Red Sea, 1963. The Starfish House of Precontinent II, set on a reef at Shab Rumi in Sudan in 1963. The programme was part-funded by the French petrochemical industry.
87. 1963 - The Deep Cabin of Conshelf II. The deep cabin of Precontinent II, occupied at 25 metres. The Red Sea station produced the film World Without Sun, which won the Academy Award for documentary feature.
88. 1963 - The submarine garage of Conshelf II. The underwater hangar built for the diving saucer at Precontinent II, Shab Rumi.
89. 1963 - The remains of the Conshelf II garage on the Sudanese reef. The surviving submarine garage of Precontinent II at Shab Rumi, still standing on the reef and now a dive site. A 2017 photograph of the 1963 structure.
90. 1963 - Underneath the Conshelf II hangar. The underside of the Precontinent II submarine hangar, photographed on the Sudanese reef where it was left in 1963.
91. 1963 - Inside the Conshelf II hangar today. The interior of the Precontinent II hangar at Shab Rumi. A modern photograph of the 1963 structure, which remains in place.
92. 1963 - The tool shed of Conshelf II. The equipment shed of Precontinent II on the reef at Shab Rumi. The Sudanese station remains in place and is now dived as a wreck site.
93. 1963 - Remains of the Conshelf II tool shed. What is left of the Precontinent II tool shed at Shab Rumi, six decades after the station was occupied.
94. 1963 - The Calypso 35mm underwater camera. The Calypso camera, designed by Jean de Wouters for Cousteau's team and sold by La Spirotechnique from 1961. Nikon bought the design and developed it into the Nikonos. Museum photograph of the 1960s camera.
95. 1963 - The Calypso camera opened, showing shell and mechanism. The Calypso camera dismantled into shell, mechanism plate and lens. Its sealed body made underwater photography possible without a housing.
96. 1963 - A Calypso underwater camera. A Calypso camera, the instrument that put the Cousteau team's underwater stills into the world's magazines.
97. 1964 - Jacques Picard and the diving saucer SP-350, 1964. Jacques Picard taking a sample with the manipulator arm of the SP-350 Denise during a Calypso mission in the Aegean in 1964.
98. 1964 - Les océanautes: le commandant Cousteau - 1964. Les oceanautes, a 1964 French film on the Precontinent programme and the men who lived in the habitats.
99. 1964 - The Cousteau Collection - World Without Sun - Trailer. A trailer for World Without Sun from the Cousteau Collection reissue.
100. 1964 - World Without Sun (French: Le Monde sans soleil) 1964 - by Jacques Cousteau. Le Monde sans soleil, the film of the Precontinent II habitat on the Sha'ab Rumi reef off Sudan. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 37th Academy Awards in 1965, Cousteau's second Oscar.
101. 1964 - Serge Baudo - Le Monde Sans Soleil (World without Sun - 1964). Serge Baudo conducting the score for Le Monde sans soleil.
102. 1964 - Jacques Cousteau - World Without Sun - 1964. World Without Sun, 1964. The habitat it documents was partly funded by the French petrochemical industry, which wanted to know whether men could work on the continental shelf.
103. 1964 - Le monde sans soleil: The parrot. The parrot sequence from Le Monde sans soleil. The bird lived in the habitat with the oceanauts.
104. 1964 - A World Without Sun (1964). A World Without Sun. The Starfish House sat at 10 metres with six oceanauts for thirty days, with a deep cabin at roughly 25 to 30 metres on a helium mixture.
105. 1964 - A towed underwater camera and magnetometer, US Navy. The Fish, an underwater camera and magnetometer rig towed behind a search vessel. Public domain as a US federal work.
106. 1964 - A 1964 US Divers reserve cylinder valve. A US Divers type J cylinder valve with reserve. US Divers was the American arm of the Aqua-Lung business, which made the apparatus a consumer product in the United States. A record photograph of the 1964 object.
107. 1965 - Oceanic research with the Cousteau Diving Saucer (1965). Oceanographic research with the Cousteau diving saucer, 1965. It is the machine that made mid-depth filming possible.
108. 1965 - Diving Saucer Cousteau - 1965 Oceanographic Research - CharlieDeanArchives / Archival Footage. Archive footage of the diving saucer in oceanographic research in 1965. The SP-350 Denise entered service in 1959, a two-man lenticular submersible with water-jet propulsion rated to 350 metres, designed with Jean Mollard.
109. 1965 - Conshelf III, the 100-metre habitat, 1965. Precontinent III, occupied by six men at about 100 metres off Cap Ferrat in 1965. Its headline demonstration was servicing an oil wellhead at that depth, work carried out for the offshore industry.
110. 1965 - A Beaulieu R16 16mm camera. The French Beaulieu R16, a compact 16mm reflex camera of the type used for documentary work in the 1960s and 1970s. Museum-style record photograph of the camera.
111. 1965 - Cressi-sub Rondine fins of the 1960s. Cressi-sub Rondine Brevettata fins from the 1960s. Fins, mask and snorkel were the equipment the Mousquemers had before the Aqua-Lung existed.
112. 1965 - A twin-cylinder set with twin-hose regulator. A twin seven-litre cylinder set rigged with a twin-hose regulator and harness, the standard configuration of the Aqua-Lung era.
113. 1966 - The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - E00 - Conshelf Adventure - Documentary. Conshelf Adventure, the series opener, in a second print. Films made before 1968 were folded into the series retroactively, which is why episode counts never agree.
114. 1966 - E0 Conshelf Adventure - The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau - 15 September 1966. Conshelf Adventure, broadcast 15 September 1966. Made for television about Precontinent III, it became the first episode of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. Films made before 1968 were folded into the series retroactively, which is why episode counts and dates never agree between sources.
115. 1966 - Conshelf Adventure, Episode 1 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. The real Life Aquatic. Conshelf Adventure as episode one, the film of Precontinent III made for television in 1966.
116. 1966 - The Anorep I two-seat submarine, 1966. The Anorep I, a two-man submarine used by Cousteau's team from 1966, preserved at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco which Cousteau directed from 1957 to 1988. A modern photograph of the 1966 vessel.
117. 1966 - Anorep I on display in Monaco. The Anorep I submersible, part of the fleet of small craft the Cousteau team built to work below the reach of divers.
118. 1966 - (32) La Collection COUSTEAU - L'aventure Précontinent (Précontinent III) (1966). L'aventure Precontinent, the film of Precontinent III. Six oceanauts including Philippe Cousteau lived three weeks in a steel sphere at 100 metres off Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat on a helium-oxygen mixture. It was made for television and became the first episode of the Undersea World series.
119. 1967 - La Collection Cousteau 69/90 - Les requins (1967). Les requins, 1967. Sharks were the subject Cousteau returned to most often, and his early treatment of them is the part of the work that has aged worst.
120. 1967 - Cousteau with Soviet oceanographer Vsevolod Timonov. Cousteau and the Soviet oceanographer Vsevolod Timonov, photographed in France in the second half of the 1960s. Dated to the depicted period, not the 2024 upload.
121. 1968 - Sharks, Episode 2 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey: The real Life Aquatic. Sharks, an early episode. Cousteau's treatment of sharks is the part of the work that has aged worst.
122. 1968 - E3 Search In The Deep - The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau - 15 April 1968. Search in the Deep, broadcast 15 April 1968. English sources generally date the US premiere of the ABC run to 1968 while French Wikipedia dates the first broadcast to 1966.
123. 1968 - The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - E02 - Savage World of the Coral Jungle - Documentary. Savage World of the Coral Jungle. The title register is characteristic of the ABC run and later drew criticism.
124. 1968 - The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - E01 - Sharks - Documentary. Sharks, an early episode of The Undersea World. The series ran from 1968 to 1976 on ABC in the United States and made Cousteau a Sunday-evening fixture.
125. 1968 - The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau - Search In The Deep of the Oceans. Search in the Deep, on the submersibles the team designed and built.
126. 1968 - Search in the Deep, Episode 4 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. Submarines. The real Life Aquatic. Search in the Deep, on the diving saucer and the submarines, broadcast April 1968.
127. 1968 - Savage World of the Coral Jungle, Episode 3 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. The real Life Aquatic. Savage World of the Coral Jungle, from the 1968 run. The reef films are where the series established its visual signature.
128. 1968 - The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau: Whales (1968). Whales, from the 1968 run. The series ran on ABC in the United States and made Cousteau a Sunday-evening fixture.
129. 1968 - The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau 04of18 Whales. Whales, from The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.
130. 1968 - The Helgoland underwater research station at Kiel, 1968. The 20-tonne Helgoland underwater laboratory on the Sartorikai at Kiel in September 1968, built for marine biology in cold northern water. Cousteau's Precontinent programme set the pattern these stations followed.
131. 1969 - The Helgoland laboratory ashore. The German underwater laboratory Helgoland, in service from 1972 to 1981. The uploader dates the photograph to about 1969 or 1970 and is not certain, so the year is approximate.
132. 1969 - Sunken Treasure, Episode 7 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. The real Life Aquatic. Sunken Treasure, on wreck diving and salvage.
133. 1969 - VHS Planète Cousteau - La Légende du Lac Titicaca - La grande aventure de la Mer VHS. La legende du lac Titicaca, recorded from a Planete Cousteau VHS release, the French home-video edition of the series.
134. 1969 - Legend of Lake Titicaca, Episode 8 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. The real Life Aquatic. Legend of Lake Titicaca, filmed at altitude in the Andes, one of the series' few freshwater expeditions.
135. 1969 - The Tektite underwater laboratory, 1969. The Tektite habitat in the US Virgin Islands, home to divers during the Tektite I and II programmes. American undersea habitats of the late 1960s followed directly from Cousteau's Conshelf experiments.
136. 1969 - E7 The Legend Of Lake Titicaca - The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau - 24 April 1969. The Legend of Lake Titicaca, broadcast 24 April 1969. The production company was Les Requins Associes, and episodes ran fifty minutes in 4:3 and mono.
137. 1970 - Jacques Cousteau on the Potomac River. Cousteau on the Potomac River. By the 1970s he was campaigning on American fresh water as well as the oceans, using the audience the television series had built.
138. 1970 - #retrojeudi octobre 1970 Jacques-Yves Cousteau à Vancouver. Cousteau at Vancouver in October 1970, from the Radio-Canada archive.
139. 1970 - A Dakota aircraft wreck off southern Corsica, 1970. The wreck of a Dakota at fifteen metres off southern Corsica, photographed in 1970. Dated to the dive, not to the upload.
140. 1970 - Extrait archives M6 Video Bank // Environnement - Commandant Cousteau - RTL- 1970. A 1970 French broadcast archive of Cousteau on the environment, recorded while the Calypso was still taking industrial survey contracts.
141. 1970 - A la découverte de la mer avec le Commandant Cousteau Archive INA. A long French archive programme, discovering the sea with Commandant Cousteau.
142. 1970 - Those Incredible Diving Machines, Episode 12 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. The real Life Aquatic. Those Incredible Diving Machines, the episode on the team's own engineering.
143. 1970 - Tragedy of the Red Salmon, Episode 14 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. The real Life Aquatic. Tragedy of the Red Salmon, on the collapse of the Alaskan salmon runs, one of the earliest openly environmental episodes.
144. 1970 - E10 Return Of The Sea Elephants - The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau - 8 February 1970. Return of the Sea Elephants, broadcast 8 February 1970, filmed on the elephant seal rookeries.
145. 1970 - (Doc) L'odyssée Sous - Marine de l'équipe Cousteau "Le Retour Des Eléphants De Mer [1990]. Le retour des elephants de mer, the French edit of the episode.
146. 1970 - The Water Planet, Episode 13 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. The real Life Aquatic. The Water Planet, a survey episode setting the ocean in a planetary frame.
147. 1970 - Lagoon of Lost Ships, Episode 15 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. The real Life Aquatic. Lagoon of Lost Ships, on a lagoon full of wrecks.
148. 1970 - L’Odyssée sous-marine: la tragédie des saumons rouges "salmoni rossi, Alaska/USA". La tragedie des saumons rouges, the French cut of Tragedy of the Red Salmon.
149. 1970 - VHS Planète Cousteau - Ces incroyables machines plongeantes. Ces incroyables machines plongeantes, the French edit of Those Incredible Diving Machines, from a VHS release.
150. 1970 - E12 The Water Planet The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau - 28 March 1970. The Water Planet, broadcast 28 March 1970, a survey episode setting the ocean in a planetary frame.
151. 1970 - The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - E14 - Lagoon of Lost Ships - Documentary. Lagoon of Lost Ships, from The Undersea World series.
152. 1970 - E9 The Night Of The Squid - The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau - 16 January 1970. The Night of the Squid, broadcast 16 January 1970, on squid filmed at night.
153. 1970 - E13 Tragedy of the Red Salmon - The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau - 24 November 1970. Tragedy of the Red Salmon, broadcast 24 November 1970, on the Alaskan salmon runs.
154. 1970 - Return of the Sea Elephants, Episode 11 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. The real Life Aquatic. Return of the Sea Elephants, filmed on the elephant seal rookeries.
155. 1970 - 1970 "Tragedy of the Red Salmon" episode of The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau. Tragedy of the Red Salmon, the 1970 episode on the collapse of the Alaskan salmon.
156. 1970 - E11 Those Incredible Diving Machines - The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau - 10 March 1970. Those Incredible Diving Machines, broadcast 10 March 1970, on the saucer and the submersibles the team built.
157. 1970 - (15) La Collection COUSTEAU - Le lagon des navires perdus (1970) - L’énigme du Britannic (1977). Le lagon des navires perdus, 1970, paired with L'enigme du Britannic, 1977.
158. 1970 - A Thomson Eclair studio television camera. A Thomson Eclair studio camera preserved at the Musee d'Aquitaine, representative of French broadcast equipment in the decade Cousteau's series reached its largest audience. A museum record photograph of the period camera.
159. 1970 - A French Thomson Eclair studio camera, rear view. A second view of a Thomson Eclair studio camera at the Musee d'Aquitaine. A museum record photograph of the period equipment.
160. 1970 - An Aquamatic underwater camera by La Spirotechnique. An Aquamatic camera made by La Spirotechnique in the 1970s, a successor to the Calypso design.
161. 1970 - Line drawing of an aqualung and its parts. A labelled line drawing of an aqualung showing hose, mouthpiece, valve, harness, backplate and tank. Public domain.
162. 1971 - E17 The Unsinkable Sea Otter - The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau - 26 September 1971. The Unsinkable Sea Otter, broadcast 26 September 1971, on the recovering North Pacific otter populations.
163. 1971 - (31) La Collection COUSTEAU - Le sort des Loutres de mer (1971). Le sort des loutres de mer, 1971, on the sea otters of the North Pacific.
164. 1971 - VHS Planète Cousteau - Le sort des Loutres de Mer - La Grande Aventure de la Mer. Le sort des loutres de mer, from a Planete Cousteau VHS release.
165. 1971 - E15 The Dragons of Galapagos - The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau - 24 February 1971. The Dragons of Galapagos, broadcast 24 February 1971, on the marine iguanas.
166. 1971 - Secrets of the Sunken Caves, Episode 17 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. The real Life Aquatic. Secrets of the Sunken Caves, on cave diving, among the most technically dangerous filming the team did.
167. 1972 - Jan and Philippe Cousteau on expedition, 1972. Jan Cousteau with her husband Philippe during an expedition in July 1972.
168. 1972 - La Calypso a heurté un iceberg Archive INA. A French television archive report that the Calypso struck an iceberg. She was a wooden-hulled vessel built as a minesweeper, and the Antarctic campaigns pushed her well beyond what she was designed for.
169. 1972 - Octopus, Octopus. Episode 20 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. The real Life Aquatic. Octopus, Octopus, one of the series' single-species episodes.
170. 1972 - E20 A Sound of Dolphins - The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau - 25 February 1972. A Sound of Dolphins, broadcast 25 February 1972.
171. 1972 - The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - Hippo. Hippo, filmed in East Africa, one of the freshwater expeditions.
172. 1972 - The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau - The Smile of the Walrus. The Smile of the Walrus, filmed in the Arctic.
173. 1972 - Hippo! Episode 24 of 37, Jacques Cousteau Odyssey. The real Life Aquatic. Hippo, from the Undersea World series.
174. 1972 - L' odyssée Sous - Marine, Le destin des tortues de mer, documentary. Le destin des tortues de mer, from the French edit of the series. The television years contain material now indefensible by present norms, including riding and handling turtles for shots.
175. 1972 - (Doc) L' odyssée Sous - Marine De L'équipe Cousteau - Hippo Hippo.. [1990]. Hippo, in the French edit of the Undersea World series.
176. 1972 - Jacques Cousteau in The Hague, 1972. Cousteau photographed at a conference in The Hague in March 1972, at the height of the Undersea World television series. From the Dutch national photo agency Anefo, released without restriction.
177. 1973 - Map of the Calypso's voyages, 1951 to 1973. A chart of the routes sailed by the Calypso for the Cousteau team between 1951 and 1973. The early voyages included Persian Gulf oil prospection, which paid off the ship's refit debts.
178. 1973 - Cousteau briefing the press after the Antarctic expedition, 1973. Cousteau addressing reporters about the Calypso's Antarctic voyage. A NASA-held press photograph, public domain as a US federal work.
179. 1973 - (26) La Collection COUSTEAU - 500 millions d'années sous la mer (1973). 500 millions d'annees sous la mer, 1973, a survey of marine evolution.
180. 1973 - E25 Antarctic Part I - South to Fire and Ice - The Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau - 29.11.1973. Antarctic Part One, South to Fire and Ice. The Antarctic block came out of the expedition on which Michel Laval, the Calypso's second in command, was killed by a helicopter tail rotor on Deception Island.

…255 further moments continue the chronology here. Full text archive: /loreline-text/jacques-cousteau.md

436. 2016-09-19 - Dans le sillage de Calypso - Le bateau de toutes les aventures. Dans le sillage de Calypso on the ship that carried every expedition from 1951 to 1996, forty-five years of sailing.
437. 2016-09-19 - Dans le sillage de Calypso - Cousteau Le pacha. Dans le sillage de Calypso, an episode on Cousteau as le pacha, the commander of the ship.
438. 2016-09-22 - "L'Odyssée" montre "comment le Commandant Cousteau a broyé ses proches", affirme Rémi Sulmont - RTL. A French radio discussion arguing that L'Odyssee shows how Cousteau crushed those close to him. The 2016 biopic is openly critical, showing the infidelities, the money trouble and the father-son conflict.
439. 2016-10-06 - Cousteau ressuscité - C à Vous - 05/10/2016. A French television discussion, Cousteau resuscitated, broadcast around the release of L'Odyssee.
440. 2016-10-11 - CAMPUS UNESCO « L'Odyssée » avec Jérôme Salle et Lambert Wilson, 3 octobre 2016. A UNESCO event with Jerome Salle and Lambert Wilson on 3 October 2016 for L'Odyssee.
441. 2016-10-12 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, un homme engagé contre la pauvreté - Le 07h43. A French radio piece on Cousteau as a man engaged against poverty, an aspect of the advocacy rarely covered in English.
442. 2016-12-20 - Jacque Cousteau's Injury. On the car crash that sent Cousteau to the sea. French sources date it to 1935, not the 1936 usual in English: twelve broken bones, a paralysed left arm, a right arm broken in five places, and a refusal of amputation. Swimming was prescribed as rehabilitation.
443. 2017-06-15 - Hot Topics: Jean-Michel Cousteau - AN OCEAN LIFE. Jean-Michel Cousteau on a life at sea, given at Vermont Law School.
444. 2017 - Jacques Cousteau Island, Baja California. Isla Cerralvo in the Gulf of California, officially renamed Jacques Cousteau Island by Mexico in 2009. Cousteau called the gulf the aquarium of the world.
445. 2017 - NASA astronauts train in the Aquarius habitat. The Aquarius habitat during a NASA NEEMO mission, in which astronauts rehearse spaceflight operations underwater. Public domain as a NASA work.
446. 2017 - Whale bones left from the whaling era, Antarctica. A discarded whale vertebra on Barrientos Island in the South Shetlands, left over from the whaling era.
447. 2017 - Mediterranean seabed litter sorted on deck. Macro-waste brought up in a trawl during an Ifremer survey of the Mediterranean, sorted and counted. This is the same sea Cousteau filmed for The Silent World.
448. 2017 - Debris trawled from the Mediterranean floor. Waste routinely recovered in nets during Ifremer fishing campaigns in the Mediterranean.
449. 2017 - Macroplastic and microplastic collected in the Azores. Plastic fragments of both large and microscopic size gathered in the Azores by Ifremer researchers.
450. 2017 - Microplastic fragments from Azores waters. Microplastic recovered from Atlantic water at the Azores. Ifremer photograph.
451. 2017 - A white shark showing its jaw and teeth. A white shark at Cape Agulhas. Trophy hunting and finning have driven the species to protected status across much of its range.
452. 2017 - Plastic debris cast up on a Hawaiian beach. Marine litter thrown ashore in Hawaii. Ifremer estimates around eight million tonnes of plastic reaches the sea annually. Photograph by the French national institute for marine research.
453. 2017-07-28 - Jacques Cousteau The Inventor of Scuba Diving. On Cousteau as the inventor of scuba. The demand-valve principle long predates him: Guillaumet designed a diaphragm-actuated demand valve in 1838 and Benoit Rouquayrol built one in 1860 for miners in flooded workings.
454. 2017-09-10 - Pierre-Yves Cousteau dans Animaux Stars (intégrale) - Animaux. Pierre-Yves Cousteau, son of Jacques and Francine, on a French television programme about animals.
455. 2017-11-13 - Reportage France 3 plongée vintage diving Cousteau. A French regional report on vintage diving equipment of the Cousteau period, showing the twin-hose regulators that Spirotechnique manufactured from the 1943 patent.
456. 2018-01-07 - A dive on Conshelf Two, Sha'ab Rumi, Sudan November 2011. A dive on Conshelf Two at Sha'ab Rumi recorded in November 2011, showing the hangar and the tool sheds still standing.
457. 2018-01-20 - Cousteau a affirmé avoir vu des choses terribles dans les mers du Gabon ! 360p. A widely circulated claim that Cousteau reported terrible things in the seas off Gabon. The letter is a persistent piece of folklore rather than a documented Cousteau statement, and it shows how his authority gets borrowed.
458. 2018-03-30 - Hans Hass et Jacques-Yves Cousteau. On Hans Hass and Cousteau together, the two men who built underwater cinema in parallel.
459. 2018 - Killer whales hunting a crabeater seal off Graham Land. Killer whales working a crabeater seal off the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. Cousteau's 1972-73 Antarctic voyage brought this water to a mass television audience.
460. 2018-06-27 - Maisons sous-marines : L'équipe Cousteau témoigne dans un documentaire. A documentary in which the Cousteau team give testimony about the underwater houses.
461. 2018-08-17 - Mensch unter den Haien German Legends in scuba - Hans Hass. A German documentary on Hans Hass among the sharks, from the Legends in Scuba series.
462. 2018-10-29 - BTE 75th Anniversary Aqualung. Aqualung marking the 75th anniversary of the 1943 apparatus. Cousteau drew five percent of La Spirotechnique's annual turnover under the patents.
463. 2018-11-09 - Gérard Mordillat critique « Le Monde du silence ». Gerard Mordillat criticising Le Monde du silence. The dynamited reef and the axed sharks are not obscure allegations recovered by hostile researchers; they are scenes left in the final cut of a Palme d'Or and Oscar winner.
464. 2019-03-05 - Become a documentary filmmaker. PODCAST #6 Jean Michel Cousteau. Jean-Michel Cousteau on documentary film-making. His productions are his own work and should not be captioned as his father's.
465. 2019-04-08 - Cousteau obtient la libération de 100 cétacés en Russie. Cousteau's organisation securing the release of a hundred captive cetaceans in Russia, a late continuation of the campaigning.
466. 2019-07-03 - Aqua-lung Wikipedia audio article. A spoken rendering of the Aqua-Lung reference article, covering the lineage from Rouquayrol and Denayrouze onward.
467. 2019-12-10 - Qui sont les enfants du Commandant Cousteau. On the children of Commandant Cousteau. The Triplet children's surname was changed to Cousteau only after the 1991 marriage.
468. 2019-12-10 - Vintage Scuba: Aqua-Lung 'Over-Pressure Breathing' Regulator - S08E10. A vintage-scuba examination of an Aqua-Lung over-pressure breathing regulator, showing how the demand valve actually works.
469. 2020-04-01 - Hans Hass, filmer le monde du silence. A French museum piece on Hans Hass filming the silent world, presented alongside Cousteau rather than beneath him.
470. 2020-04-22 - Jean-Michel Cousteau on Facebook LIVE on Earth Day 4/22/2020. Jean-Michel Cousteau speaking live on Earth Day 2020.
471. 2020 - Seabirds killed in discarded fishing net, Heligoland. Seabirds dead in the remains of fishing net on Heligoland. Abandoned gear continues to fish for years.
472. 2020 - A captive orca in a marine park tank. An orca in a zoological park pool. The keeping of large cetaceans for performance is the practice Cousteau's later films argued against most directly, though the appetite for marine spectacle was partly created by his own television.
473. 2020-07-28 - Fabien Cousteau Unveils PROTEUS. Fabien Cousteau unveiling PROTEUS, an underwater research habitat planned off Curacao at about twenty metres and explicitly a descendant of Precontinent.
474. 2020-08-04 - Jean-Michel Cousteau Presents to the Santa Barbara School of Squash. Jean-Michel Cousteau presenting to a Santa Barbara school, continuing the education work he ran for the Cousteau Society for two decades.
475. 2020-08-27 - Fabian Cousteau Proyecto Proteus " La Sexta Extincion " Subtitulado a Español. Fabien Cousteau on the PROTEUS habitat project, with Spanish subtitles.
476. 2021-01-27 - ASC Weekly Live : Cousteau and the Conshelf project. A long discussion of Cousteau and the Conshelf programme. There was no Conshelf IV: industry found remote vehicles and surface-based saturation diving cheaper and safer than habitats.
477. 2021-02-21 - Jacques Cousteau's "Most Dangerous" Shark - The Oceanic White Tip - by Khurram Pervaiz. On the oceanic whitetip, the shark Cousteau called the most dangerous, filmed by a modern diver.
478. 2021-03-03 - Jean-Michel Cousteau "Le sombre passé du Commandant Cousteau" chez Thierry Ardisson INA Arditube. Jean-Michel Cousteau discussing what the programme calls his father's dark past, with Thierry Ardisson. The son is the source here, and the framing is his.
479. 2021-03-04 - Commandant Cousteau : qui était Simone sa femme pendant 53 ans ?. On Simone Cousteau, his wife for 53 years, who died of cancer at Monaco in December 1990.
480. 2021-03-04 - Commandant Cousteau : qui était sa maîtresse et deuxième femme Francine ?. On Francine Triplet, who became Cousteau's mistress while he was still married to Simone. Their two children were born in 1979 and 1981 while Simone was alive, a second family running in parallel for roughly fifteen years, and he married Francine seven months after Simone's death.
481. 2021-03-14 - MONTRES DE PLONGÉE ICÔNIQUES : (Cousteau, Piccard ...) 🦈. On the dive watches associated with Cousteau and Piccard, part of the equipment culture that grew around the Aqua-Lung.
482. 2021-03-22 - Cousteau's Odyssey : L' odyssée 2016 Vs The Adventures of the Cousteau Team. A comparison of the 2016 biopic L'Odyssee against the Cousteau team's own films, setting the drama beside the record.
483. 2021-03-23 - Leg3nd Features First Stage Regulator Aqualung Dive Regulator. A modern Aqualung first stage. The company descends directly from La Spirotechnique, founded to manufacture the 1943 design, and US Divers was its American arm.
484. 2021-04-04 - LIVE Q&A w/ Jean-Michel Cousteau & Céline Cousteau for My Father the Captain: Jacques-Yves Cousteau. A live discussion with Jean-Michel and Celine Cousteau about My Father the Captain. French sources record that the split became public in 1996 when Cousteau, suing his son, gave interviews using humiliating words about him, the year before he died.
485. 2021-04-04 - LIVE Q&A with Jean-Michel Cousteau for SWAINS ISLAND - One of the Last Jewels of the Planet. A live discussion on Swains Island with Jean-Michel Cousteau.
486. 2021-04-05 - LIVE Q&A with Jean-Michel Cousteau and Jeff Foster for "Keiko: The Gate to Freedom". A live discussion on Keiko, the orca whose release Jean-Michel Cousteau's organisation worked on.
487. 2021-04-07 - LIVE Q&A with Jean-Michel Cousteau and Charles Vinick for Keiko: Born to be Wild. A live discussion with Jean-Michel Cousteau and Charles Vinick about the orca Keiko.
488. 2021-05-21 - Commandant Cousteau : sa petite-fille fait de rares confidences sur la guerre.... A French piece in which Cousteau's granddaughter speaks about the war years. French sources record that Dimitri Veliacheff, a decorated resistant and Cousteau's hierarchical superior in the 1941 intelligence operations, disputed his decorations and accused him of claiming paternity of the operations after the war.
489. 2021-05-27 - Céline Cousteau Interconnected - You and the Indigenous Peoples of the Vale do Javari, Amazon. Celine Cousteau on the indigenous peoples of the Vale do Javari in the Brazilian Amazon.
490. 2021-06-02 - Alexandra Cousteau - Restoring Our Oceans in One Generation. Alexandra Cousteau on restoring the oceans within a single generation.
491. 2021 - A great white shark at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico. A great white shark off Isla Guadalupe. The Silent World contains a sequence in which the Calypso crew kill sharks with axes after a whale calf is struck by the ship, a scene now read as evidence of how much the ethic changed.
492. 2021 - A pair of dugongs over the Ningaloo reef. Two dugongs over Ningaloo in Western Australia. The species is listed as vulnerable, its seagrass habitat lost to coastal development.
493. 2021-06-30 - Episode 130. Cousteau Curieux. A long podcast episode on Cousteau prompted by the 2021 documentary.
494. 2021-07-01 - Lotte und Hans Hass. On Lotte and Hans Hass. Their underwater films ran alongside Cousteau's from the late 1930s, and Lotte Hass was among the first women to appear as an underwater performer on screen.
495. 2021-08-03 - Live Q&A for Jean-Michel Cousteau's Secret Ocean. A live discussion for Jean-Michel Cousteau's Secret Ocean.
496. 2021-08-25 - The History of Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Research Vessel CALYPSO. On the history of the research vessel Calypso. She was laid down at Seattle in 1941 as BYMS-26, a wooden-hulled minesweeper built for the Royal Navy under Lend-Lease, and the wooden hull is why her restoration has been so ruinous.
497. 2021-10-20 - IDA Documentary Screening Series: Becoming Cousteau Explorer, Nat Geo Doc, Liz Garbus. An International Documentary Association screening discussion of Becoming Cousteau.
498. 2021-10-21 - Dune, Becoming Cousteau, Halloween Kills, Alone in The Dark, Exam. A film podcast covering Becoming Cousteau among other 2021 releases.
499. 2021-11-06 - Céline Cousteau, CauseCentric Productions. Celine Cousteau on her documentary production work.
500. 2021-11-17 - Becoming Cousteau Official Clip - The invention of the Aqualung. A clip from Becoming Cousteau on the invention of the Aqua-Lung. Emile Gagnan had miniaturised a Rouquayrol-Denayrouze regulator in bakelite to meter wood gas into car engines during the wartime petrol requisition.
501. 2021-11-23 - Becoming Cousteau National Geographic Documentary Interview with Producer Mridu Chandra. An interview with the Becoming Cousteau producer Mridu Chandra. The film was made with the cooperation and archive access of the Cousteau Society, which is to say of Francine.
502. 2021-11-24 - Docs: Becoming Cousteau, A Cop Movie, My Name Is Pauli Murray, Simple as Water, Velvet Underground. An awards-season documentary panel including Becoming Cousteau, which won the Grierson Award at the BFI London Film Festival.
503. 2021-12-08 - Rencontre avec Francine Cousteau, président des associations «L'Equipe Cousteau», «Cousteau Society». A meeting with Francine Cousteau, president of Equipe Cousteau and The Cousteau Society, at the Russian centre for science in Paris.
504. 2022-01-11 - L’Odyssée : pourquoi le commandant Cousteau portait-il toujours un bonnet rouge ?. On why Cousteau always wore the red woolly cap. French sources record that cinema and television required staging the Calypso crew, and the famous imagery is a construct that was known to be one.
505. 2022-01-11 - Simone Cousteau : qui est la femme qui se cachait derrière le commandant Cousteau ?. On Simone Melchior, the wife who is routinely written out. She sold her jewels to fund the early operation, lived aboard the Calypso, and French sources say she knew about Francine and the second family and kept silent.
506. 2022-02-01 - 🥽 L'ODYSSEE: Le film événement sur Jacques-Yves Cousteau. A French video essay on L'Odyssee, Jerome Salle's 2016 biopic, which is openly critical of its subject.
507. 2022-04-20 - ASC Special Video : Conshelf 1 with Babe Hyde. Babe Hyde on Conshelf I. In September 1962 Albert Falco and Claude Wesly lived in a cylinder at 10 to 12 metres off Marseille; the standard French figure is one week, though English sources sometimes say two.
508. 2022-04-26 - Scaphandre. A piece on the scaphandre, the French term covering both helmet diving and the autonomous set.
509. 2022-04-27 - ASC Special Video : Conshelf 2 with Babe Hyde. Babe Hyde on Conshelf II, the 1963 Starfish House at Sha'ab Rumi in the Red Sea off Sudan, six oceanauts for thirty days.
510. 2022-05-04 - ASC Special Video : Conshelf 3 with Babe Hyde. Babe Hyde on Conshelf III. The oceanauts demonstrated they could service an oil wellhead at 110 metres, twice what had been thought the extreme human limit.
511. 2022-06-07 - Fabien Cousteau A New Era of Ocean Exploration. Fabien Cousteau on a new era of ocean exploration.
512. 2022-06-08 - La saga de la Calypso, le bateau du commandant Cousteau. A French radio history of the Calypso. Her first years were spent in the Mediterranean, Red Sea and Persian Gulf on oil prospection for private companies, which is how the debts of her refit were repaid.
513. 2022 - The six-berth bunk room of Aquarius. Inside the Aquarius habitat at Key Largo, which sleeps six. NOAA photograph, public domain as a US federal work.
514. 2022 - A diver in the cave of the sleeping sharks, Isla Mujeres. A documentarian in the cave of the sleeping sharks off Isla Mujeres, the site Ramon Bravo discovered and to which he brought the Cousteau team in the 1970s.
515. 2022 - Acropora hemprichii coral at Sharm el-Sheikh. A stony coral at Ras Katy in the Egyptian Red Sea. Acropora species are among the first lost when sea temperature rises.
516. 2022 - Rough leather coral in the Red Sea. Sarcophyton glaucum, a soft leather coral, at Ras Katy near Sharm el-Sheikh.
517. 2022-10-14 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, le danger de la mer ? - Gérard Mordillat. Gerard Mordillat on Cousteau and what he calls the danger of the sea, a French critical reading of the films.
518. 2022-11-20 - La vérité cachée sur le monde mystique au Gabon, relaté par COUSTEAU #lemondemystique #lemondecacher. A French video repeating the claim that Cousteau described a hidden mystical world off Gabon. Attributed here as folklore, not as a Cousteau statement.
519. 2022-12-04 - The Incredible Calypso: Jacques Cousteau's Crazy Exploration Vessel. On the Calypso as an exploration vessel. Thomas Loel Guinness bought her and leased her to Cousteau for a symbolic one franc a year, and remained the legal owner until 2005, eight years after Cousteau's death.
520. 2022-12-27 - El desafío del Agua. Programa completo. Con Céline Cousteau. Celine Cousteau on the challenge of water, in Spanish.
521. 2023-03-08 - L'héritage du Commandant Cousteau en question chez Thierry Ardisson INA Arditube. The inheritance of Commandant Cousteau put in question on French television. Cousteau left the entirety of the rights to his name, image and work to the Cousteau Society, and Francine became universal legatee and executor; the first family received nothing in law.
522. 2023-03-29 - Dans les cales du musée, Le scaphandre autonome Cousteau- Gagnan. The Cousteau-Gagnan scuba set held in the reserves of the Musee national de la Marine, filmed in its store.
523. 2023-05-12 - François Sarano : Un compagnon de Cousteau témoigne chez Thierry Ardisson INA Arditube. Francois Sarano, a long-serving companion of Cousteau, giving testimony on French television about what the work was actually like.
524. 2023-05-21 - ESSAI 1 ALCYONE. A scale model trial of Alcyone showing the turbosail cylinders in operation.
525. 2023 - Coral bleaching in the Florida Keys, 2023. Bleaching in the Florida Keys during the record sea temperatures of 2023.
526. 2023-11-19 - "Exploring the Abyss: Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the Aqua-Lung Revolution!". On the Aqua-Lung and what autonomous diving made possible. Earlier apparatus by Fernez and Le Prieur was constant-flow: air ran continuously and the diver opened a tap by hand, wasting gas and cutting dives short.
527. 2024-01-29 - Fabien Cousteau in conversation with the Museum of Science. Fabien Cousteau in conversation at the Museum of Science about underwater habitats.
528. 2024-05-28 - Leg3nd Elite Features Aqualung Dive Regulator. A current Aqualung regulator, the commercial descendant of the 1943 patent.
529. 2024 - The Alcyone's turbosails at Caen, 2024. The Alcyone moored at Caen in July 2024, decommissioned. Her turbosail rig was the most visible technical experiment of Cousteau's last decade.
530. 2024 - Model of the Calypso at the Oniria aquarium. A model of the Calypso exhibited at the Oniria aquarium at Canet-en-Roussillon in July 2024.
531. 2024 - An offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The Marco Polo platform in Green Canyon, Gulf of Mexico. Precontinent III's demonstrated achievement was servicing an oil wellhead at 110 metres, work commissioned by the offshore industry.
532. 2024-07-01 - Jacques Cousteau’s grandson on reframing the climate crisis (Philippe Cousteau Jr.) Rapid Response. Philippe Cousteau junior on reframing the climate crisis. He was born in 1980, six months after his father's death.
533. 2024-07-30 - Fabien Cousteau GLEX summit 2024. Fabien Cousteau at the GLEX summit in 2024, on the PROTEUS habitat.
534. 2024-09-22 - Journées du patrimoine : le Saga, sous-marin géant créé par Cousteau, exposé à Marseille AFP. The Saga, a large experimental submarine associated with Cousteau, exhibited at Marseille for the heritage days.
535. 2025-01-06 - Colonize The Ocean Podcast : Season 3 Episode 1, Cousteau's Conshelf Program. A podcast on the Conshelf programme and its purpose. There was no Conshelf IV: industry found remote vehicles and saturation diving cheaper and safer, and Cousteau withdrew from the project of exploiting the sea.
536. 2025-01-18 - The Calypso ship PLANS, DESIGN & UPGRADES - Jacques Cousteau’s legendary research vessel. The Calypso's plans and design examined in detail. She measured 42.35 metres overall, 360 tonnes, two diesels of 1160 horsepower, ten knots, with a crew of 27.
537. 2025-01-30 - JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU : L’Homme qui nous a fait découvrir l’océan. A short French profile of Cousteau covering the reputation and the complications.
538. 2025-03-03 - La société Aqualung réinvente le détendeur et la plongée et reçoit un prix. A French regional report on Aqualung receiving a prize for redesigning the regulator, eighty years after the original.
539. 2025-06-05 - SPECIAL EDITION: Alexandra Cousteau on Oceans and Legacy - The Ocean News Podcast. Alexandra Cousteau on oceans and legacy, from an ocean news podcast.
540. 2025 - Avenue Jacques-Yves Cousteau at a marina. An avenue named for Cousteau beside a marina. His name attaches to streets, schools, parks and an island across several countries.
541. 2025 - The Calypso as a ship in a bottle. A model of the research vessel Calypso by the naval modeller Joaquin Bejarano Verano, exhibited at Rota in Cadiz.
542. 2025-09-03 - Celine Cousteau Plus One: Leading Through Crisis in the Wild. Celine Cousteau on leading through crisis.
543. 2025-10-24 - Hans Hass - The Undersea Eye of Science. A lecture on Hans Hass as a scientific underwater film-maker. In 1994 Hass publicly claimed priority for the first use of autonomous diving apparatus and put the claim to Cousteau directly.
544. 2025-10-26 - The 2005 Aqua-Lung Mistral. The Modern Twin Hose Regulator That Revived a Legend. On the Aqua-Lung Mistral, a modern twin-hose regulator built in the pattern of the original Cousteau-Gagnan design.
545. 2025-11-03 - Le Var : le berceau historique de la plongée autonome (Cousteau, Dumas, Tailliez). On the Var as the birthplace of autonomous diving, the coast where Cousteau, Dumas and Tailliez worked. The four mousquemers included Leon Veche, and Tailliez coined the name retroactively in 1975.
546. 2026-03-21 - From Shark Hunter to Environmental Champion - Jacques Cousteau’s Legacy. A documentary tracing Cousteau from shark hunter to environmental champion. He described his own evolution as going from explorer-hunter-and-fisherman to logistician for scientists and protectors, and never claimed to have always been a conservationist.
547. 2026-05-08 - From Minesweeper J-826 to ICON, Jacques-Yves Cousteau's CALYPSO. From minesweeper J-826 to icon. Struck from the naval register in 1947, she was converted to a Malta-Gozo ferry and renamed Calypso before Cousteau ever saw her: he did not name her.
548. 2026-05-21 - ¿QUÉ LE SUSURRÓ PHILIPPE COUSTEAU A SU PADRE ANTES DE MORIR? 😨. A Spanish-language treatment of Philippe Cousteau's death. Philippe had co-produced all his father's films from 1969 and was the designated successor.
549. 2026-06-04 - Cousteau's Calypso: The World's First Expedition Conversion Yacht That Changed the Oceans. On the Calypso as an early expedition conversion. Her 1950 Antibes refit added the false bow containing a glazed observation chamber three metres below the waterline.
550. 2026-06-15 - The Evolution of Calypso by John Denver (1975-1995). The evolution of Calypso across John Denver's performances from 1975 to 1995.
551. 2026 - Detail of an Alcyone turbosail. Close view of one of the Alcyone's turbosails, the cylinder-and-flap device developed with Lucien Malavard to convert wind into thrust.
552. 2026 - Rue Commandant Cousteau at Bourg-en-Bresse. A street named for Cousteau at Bourg-en-Bresse. He remains one of the most commemorated figures in French municipal naming.
553. 2026-06-16 - ET SI COUSTEAU N'ÉTAIT PAS CELUI QU'ON CROYAIT ?. A French documentary asking whether Cousteau was who we thought he was, part of the revisionist turn that became standard in serious writing from roughly the 2010s.
554. 2026-06-20 - Il se brise les deux bras. Les médecins lui disent de ne plus jamais nager. Il invente le scaphandre. A French account of the accident and its consequence. The injury disqualified him from naval aviation and sent him to sea duty at Toulon, which is the causal chain to everything that followed.
555. 2026-06-23 - Episode 99: Simone Cousteau - True Devotion: Under The Sea. A podcast episode on Simone Cousteau. She died at Monaco in December 1990, and her husband married Francine Triplet seven months later.

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