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'''Jacques Cousteau''' (1910-1997) was a world-famous ocean explorer who helped French engineer Émile Gagnan improve [[SCUBA]] gear with a [[demand regulator]], producing the Aqua-Lung. <ref>http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Ce-Cr/Cousteau-Jacques.html</ref>
'''Jacques Yves-Cousteau''' (June 11, 1910 - June 25, 1997) is a world-famous ocean explorer who helped French engineer Émile Gagnan improve [[SCUBA]] gear with a [[demand regulator]], producing the Aqua-Lung. <ref>http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Ce-Cr/Cousteau-Jacques.html</ref>
Cousteau first joined the [[France|French]] [[navy]] in 1933, fought for the [[Free French]] resistance during [[World War II]], then remained again in the French navy until 1949.<ref>http://www.incwell.com/Biographies/Cousteau.html</ref> He continued in underwater exploration and leased the ship Calpyso from 1950 to 1997 as the ocean base for his research. His [[television]] series ''The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau'' ran from 1966 to 1976.<ref>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192937/</ref>
He got caught up in [[environmentalism|environmental]] [[extremism]] in the later years of his life, advocating for enforced human [[population control]] in a 1991 interview<ref>''UNESCO Courier'', November 1991, quoted several places on the Internet such as http://www.radioliberty.com/pca.htm</ref>, and consulting to the 1992 [[Earth Summit]] in [[Rio de Janeiro]].<ref>http://www.ecophotoexplorers.com/JacquesCousteau.asp</ref>
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