Jacques Coustau Honorable

The word honor means, high respect; esteem, and in my opinion Jacques Cousteau was honorable. Honor is something earned not given and for some people, it takes a whole lifetime to figure this out. The scientists I chose to write this paper about goes above and beyond what it means to be honorable.

Jacques Cousteau was born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, near Bordeaux, France on the date June 11, 1910. He started his fascination with water at the age of 4, when he learned how to swim. When Jacques Cousteau was around the age of 10, his family temporarily moved to New York and he learned how to speak English. He went to summer camp and was able to learn how to dive, this just fueled his passion more for water. His family later returned to France in a town on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and Cousteau was able to snorkel all he wanted. He was falling a

He was in a near death car crash 6 years later while training to be a pilot and was never able to return. He nearly lost his arm due to infection, but his love of the water was able to help him regain his strength by swimming daily. When WWII broke out, he had to do his duty to France. He served as a gunnery officer of the coast of Italy in the first part of the war and was an active spy for the French government all through the war. A war breaking out did not stop Cousteau from doing what he loved, as in 1942 he and a friend took an underwater camera (something invented by Jacques Cousteau himself) and took pictures of the underwater life of the Mediterranean Sea. In 1943 he did what he is famous for and made the aqualung. This was able to let him stay underwater longer and deeper. These few inventions were just the start of his many accolades. After the war, he was awarded the Military Cross for his efforts during the war. His contributions to the science community started gaining steam after the war had