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The world famous
scientist and underwater explorer, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, was
born in 1910 in France. Even as a child, he loved the water, and
it soon became clear that he was also very clever at building
machines. When he was only 11, he built a model crane, at when
he was 13, he built a battery-operated car. Fascinated by movies,
he saved his money and bought himself a movie camera.
It is no wonder
then that he found school a little boring. And, like many children
when they become bored, he began to cause trouble. His parents
responded immediately - they sent him to a very strict boarding
school. It was the best thing they could have done, because Cousteau
loved it, worked very hard and, when he graduated, went straight
into the French Naval Academy. By 1933, Jacques-Yves was a gunnery
officer in the French navy. He began to explore the undersea world,
and turned his talents to trying to build a machine to allow people
to stay underwater longer. In 1937, Cousteau married, and he and
his wife had two sons.
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