Philippe Pierre Cousteau was a French diver, sailor, pilot, photographer, author, director and cinematographer specializing in environmental issues, with a background in oceanography.
15 Facts About Philippe Cousteau
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Philippe Cousteau was the second son of Jacques Cousteau and Simone Melchior.
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Philippe Cousteau was the lead cinematographer for most of the Cousteau films during his lifetime; he was nominated for and won several awards.
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Philippe Cousteau's father brought home a miniature version of the aqua-lung he had co-invented a few years before.
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Philippe Cousteau spent two years in the French Navy during the Algerian war as a sonar operator and member of the landing party of the Le Normand ship, later earning his degree in science, spent another year at MIT, and then went to Paris to train in cinematography, graduating from I'Ecole technique de photographie et de cinema in Paris.
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In 1965, Philippe Cousteau was an Oceanaut on the Conshelf III, an undersea habitat for saturated diving down to 325 feet near Ile Levant in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Philippe Cousteau appeared as himself on the 28 March 1966 episode of the CBS game show To Tell the Truth.
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Philippe Cousteau received three of the four possible votes from the panel.
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In February 1967, Philippe Cousteau accompanied his father on the RV Calypso for an expedition to film the sharks of the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.
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In 1969, Philippe Cousteau lent his technical expertise to the US Navy's SEALAB program.
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Philippe Cousteau earned his glider pilot license at the age of 16 and went on to obtain pilot credentials to fly balloons, hang gliders, single- and multi-engine airplanes and seaplanes, gyrocopters and helicopters.
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Philippe Cousteau met Janice Sullivan in the crowded ballroom of St Regis Hotel in New York City in February 1966.
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Philippe Cousteau was a fashion model originally from Los Angeles and more recently from New York.
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Philippe Cousteau died in 1979, aged 38, when his PBY Catalina flying boat crashed in the Tagus river near Lisbon.
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Philippe Cousteau received many awards and honors for his contribution to diving and underwater photography: He was nominated for four Emmy's, NOGI Award for Arts from the Underwater Society of America, World Wildlife Award and many others.