I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. - Jacques Yves Cousteau
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. - Jacques Yves Cousteau
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon - Jacques Yves Cousteau
In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon
I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world. - Jacques Yves Cousteau
I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.
The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop … - Jacques Yves Cousteau
The future is in the hands of those who explore... and from all the beauty they discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop …
People protect what they love. - Jacques Yves Cousteau
People protect what they love.
The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish. - Jacques Yves Cousteau
The best way to observe a fish is to become a fish.
The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight. - Jacques Yves Cousteau
The reason I love the sea I cannot explain - it's physical. When you dive you begin to feel like an angel. It's a liberation of your weight.
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it. - Jacques Yves Cousteau
For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it.
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