Cousteau

American  

[koo-stoh] / kuˈstoʊ /

noun

1. Jacques Yves 1910–97, French naval officer, author, and underseas explorer: developed the Aqua-Lung.

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Cousteau British  

/ kusto /

noun

1. Jacques Yves (ʒɑk iv). 1910–97, French underwater explorer

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Cousteau Scientific  

/ ko̅o̅-stō′ /

1. French underwater explorer who helped develop the Aqua-Lung (an underwater breathing apparatus) and designed the bathyscaphe and a small, deep-sea submarine known as a diving saucer. Cousteau also devised an underwater television system and produced several films that widely popularized marine biology.

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Cousteau

The species name Megachelicerax cousteaui honors French explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026

Jacques Cousteau helped invent the Aqua-Lung, an early version of the scuba breathing gear now used by divers everywhere.

From NewsForKids.net ● Mar. 25, 2024

He’s been at the work ever since he was a university student and the venerated oceanographer Jacques Cousteau visited his class.

From National Geographic ● Feb. 5, 2024

He had been taught to dive by oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, and during the 1960s had been Florida State University's diving course training director.

From BBC ● May 28, 2023

But it would not be until the early 1940s that a major breakthrough would allow more efficient undersea explorations, discoveries, and excavations in the form of an invention by Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler