Times were hard for the Cousteau family in France, though. In 1920, when Jacques was ten years old, the family packed their bags and started a new life in New York City, New York. Here, Jacques' father got a new job. In New York, Jacques attended the Holy Name School. When he was off of school in the summer, though, Jacques and his family vacationed to Lake Harvey, Vermont, where Jacques first learned how to swim and hold his breath underwater.

After two years in America, his family Jacque's family decided to move back to France. When Jacques got back to France, one of the first things he did was buy a brand new movie camera he had been wanting with his savings. Even though he was very smart, Jacques started doing very badly in school. He also made a lot of trouble at school. Eventually, it became too much, and Jacques Cousteau was expelled fro

For some time, Cousteau had been trying to perfect the art of underwater breathing for humans. The task was a particularly hard one, though. But, Jacques had soon developed a device that would allow humans to easily breath under the water's surface. It was called the Rebreather. The Rebreather used helium and other compounds to recycle the Carbon Dioxide the diver had already breathed out into oxygen that could be "Rebreathed." This concept, however, proved too complicated. The invention eventually failed after many years of hard work. The oxygen that was produced by the device was saturated with too much helium for a human's lungs. This could cause the diver to die if the oxygen was breathed in for too long.

While in the navy, he took many journeys on boats around the world. On one of these trips, he met a young woman named Simone Melchior. Melchior was also a member of the French navy and stayed with Cousteau throughout many of their journeys.

Jacques also invented the first watertight goggles that could withstand the pressure of a deep-sea dive. These would help a diver to see a lot more clearly than he/she ever could have before. The goggles could also take tremendous pressure. This feature was needed to go below depths of about 40 feet. If they could not withstand the pressure, the go

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