{"id":700,"date":"2021-11-07T11:05:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T11:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=700"},"modified":"2021-11-09T18:51:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T18:51:49","slug":"jacques-cousteau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"Jacques-Yves Cousteau"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jacques-Yves Cousteau, <\/strong>(11 June 1910 \u2013 25 June 1997) was a <strong>French naval officer<\/strong>, <strong>explorer<\/strong>, <strong>conservationist<\/strong>, <strong>filmmaker<\/strong>, <strong>innovator<\/strong>, <strong>scientist<\/strong>, <strong>photographer<\/strong>, <strong>author <\/strong>and <strong>researcher <\/strong>who <strong>studied the sea and all forms of life in water<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"305\" height=\"306\" src=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5e77a6bcff251f726e656f1dd852dcf1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5e77a6bcff251f726e656f1dd852dcf1-1.jpg 305w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5e77a6bcff251f726e656f1dd852dcf1-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5e77a6bcff251f726e656f1dd852dcf1-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\"> <strong>Jacques-Yves Cousteau<\/strong> <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He co-developed the <strong>Aqua<\/strong>&#8211;<strong>Lung<\/strong>, <strong>pioneered marine conservation <\/strong>and was a member of the <strong>Acad\u00e9mie Fran\u00e7aise<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gwadaloisirs-plongee.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gwadaloisirs-plongee.jpg 550w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/gwadaloisirs-plongee-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-white-color\">Underwater statue of Jacques-Yves Cousteau<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Cousteau <\/strong>described his <strong>underwater world <\/strong>research in a series of <strong>books<\/strong>, perhaps the most successful being his first book, <strong>The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure<\/strong>, published in 1953. Cousteau also directed films, most notably The Silent World, the documentary adaptation of his book, which won a<strong> Palme d&#8217;or at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/7360d2709aa8b3751c0d226e909a17b0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-835\" width=\"299\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/7360d2709aa8b3751c0d226e909a17b0.jpg 518w, https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/7360d2709aa8b3751c0d226e909a17b0-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (11 June 1910 \u2013 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua&#8211;Lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Acad\u00e9mie Fran\u00e7aise. Cousteau described his underwater world research&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/?p=700\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jacques-Yves Cousteau<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mermaidthea.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}