Captain of the first rank

The future captain Cousteau was born on June 11, 1910 in Saint-André-de-Cube-zack, not far from Bordeaux, in the family of a lawyer. The Cousteau family moved a lot from place to place and often lived in America, where Jacques spent most of his childhood. Returning to France, Cousteau began to study, which was marked by one rather interesting circumstance: he was expelled from the last class for breaking glass in the study room Continue reading →