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SCUBA Man

Jacques Cousteau and His Amazing Underwater Invention

Carmen Bredeson

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SCUBA Man

Jacques Cousteau and His

Amazing Underwater

Invention

Carmen Bredeson

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Industrial Road Box Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922 USA

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Copyright 2014 by Carmen Bredeson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bredeson, Carmen. Scuba man: Jacques Cousteau and his amazing underwater invention / Carmen Bredeson.

p. cm. ( Inventors at work! ) Includes index. Summary: Read about Jacques Cousteaus life and the invention of the Aqua-Lung Provided by publisher. ISBN 978-0-7660-4231-5 Cousteau, Jacques, 19101997. Oceanographers France Biography. Inventors France Biography.

Scuba apparatus Design and construction. I. Title. GC30. C68B74 2014 dc23

2012041456

Future editions: Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4644-0405-4 EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4645-1222-3 Single-User PDF ISBN: 978-1-4646-1222-0 Multi-User PDF ISBN: 978-0-7660-5854-5

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102013 Lake Book Manufacturing, Inc. , Melrose Park, IL

This book has not been authorized by Jacques Cousteau or his successors.

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Enslow Publishers, Inc. , is committed to printing our books on recycled paper. The paper in every book contains 10% to 30% post-consumer waste ( PCW) . The cover board on the outside of each book contains 100% PCW. Our goal is to do our part to help young people and the environment too!

Photo Credits: AGIP - Rue des Archives/The Granger Collection, p. ( Cousteau) ; Albert Harlingue/Roger- Viollet/The Image Works, p. 12; AP Images/Bettmann/Corbis, p. 35; AP Images/Kathy Willens, p. 44; Bernard Laire, Frdric Dumas International Diving Museum, p. 24; Everett Collection, pp. 4, 34, 37; The Illustrated London News, February 6, 1873, front cover, p. 21; Jacques and Simone Cousteau, p. 32; Keystone-France/Getty Images, p. 18; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs, p. 19; National Media Museum/Science & Society Picture Library, p. 9; NOAA, p. 6; Robert B. Goodman/National Geographic Stock, p. 28; Rue des Archives/The Granger Collection, New York, p. 38; Shutterstock. com, pp. ( fish, goggles, divers body) , 8, 15, 22, 30, 40, 41, 42, 43; United States Patent Office, p.

Cover Credit: AGIP - Rue des Archives/The Granger Collection ( Cousteau) ; Shutterstock. com ( others) .

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CONTENTS

The Aqua-Lung Arrives

After Graduation

A New Way to Dive

4/ Will the Aqua-Lung Work

Calypso

You Be the Inventor

Timeline

Words to Know

Learn More

Index

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Jacques Cousteau figured out a way to swim underwater with a tank of air on his back.

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The Aqua-Lung Arrives!

Jacques Cousteau carried the wooden box into the house. His wife and two friends were waiting for him. They had all been waiting for this moment. Cousteau pried open the box, sent by Emile Gagnan. Inside was an Aqua-Lung!

What Is an Aqua-Lung?

Jacques Cousteau had a dream. He wanted to be able to swim with the fish. Until the 1940s, divers breathed through a long hose connected to a ship on the surface. The diver could go only as far as the hose would reach.

Inside the box was a tank that a diver could carry on his back. Then the person could swim freely underwater. It was a wonderful invention, but would it work?

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real fact!

Diving Bell

A diving bell had an open bottom. The bell was lowered into the water on a cable. People sat inside the bell, usually in their regular clothes. Try turning over a glass in a sink of water. Push the glass straight down. The glass does not fill up with water. A bubble of air stays in the glass. The diving bell worked the same way. People inside breathed the air in the bubble. Today, modern diving bells are used for many different kinds of underwater work.

diving bell

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Learning to Swim

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born on June 11, 1910 in France. When he was a boy, he had a disease that gave him a lot of stomachaches. He didnt eat much, so he was small and weak. Jacques couldnt run and play. He needed an exercise to make him stronger. How about swimming? It was easy to paddle in the water. Jacques learned to swim. His body got stronger.

The Cousteau family moved to New York City when Jacques was ten. One summer he went to camp in Vermont. The boys went hiking and swimming. They rode horses. Jacques didnt like horses. On his first ride, the horse threw him. The teacher told him to get back on the horse. Jacques said no.

Jacques was punished for saying no. He was sent to clean out the pond where the boys swam. There were dead tree branches in the water. This wasnt punishment! He loved being in the water. Jacques dove again and again. He had to open his eyes to see the branches. This was the first time Jacques opened his eyes underwater.

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For some boys, like Jacques, swimming is the perfect activity.

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