Jacques Cousteau and the Secret of the Aqualung
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2023
- The Unknown Story of the modern scuba system and how it replaced Jacques Cousteau's Aqualung.
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Born in 1938, I was fortunate to have a Godfather who took his role seriously. An army Major, served in North Africa, he was a man of action and adventure. His birthday & Xmas gifts were books about discovery and adventure, one of those books was by Jacques Cousteau and underwater adventure, Edmund Hilary & Mt Everest was another. In 1968 I left the UK for a prime job opportunity in Hobart, Tasmania Australia. The new Clinical School was opposite a scuba diving centre!. It was not long before I had a wetsuit, new SeaBee regulator and a dive tank with a J reserve handle. Over the years many a time I have sucked the tank dry, coming home with enough Cary’s and abalone to feed us all week. At 85, I am forever indebted to my uncle & JC, for giving me the interest & equipment to achieve what my uncle had sown in a youngster’s mind. Greetings from Tasmania Australia.👍😁🇦🇺🦘
In grade school Jaques Cousteau was my hero. Most of my peers watched football, base ball or basketball. Nope i wanted to learn what was happening on the RV Calypso. And because of my fascination with mister Cousteau on my eighth grade gradation my father asked what i wanted for a present. I said i wanted to learn to scuba drive like Jaques Cousteau. So we all got to learn how. It became a family thing. Thank you mister Cousteau.
I began diving sixty years ago because of watching Jacque Cousteau. Cousteau was and has been a inspiration to me.
Ted Eldred’s development of the Porpoise single-hose Scuba regulator is a perfect example of the curiosity and resourcefulness of the human mind. As a Scuba instructor and diving enthusiast for forty years, I'm constantly striving to learn more about the pioneers who helped bring us the equipment we rely on to explore the underwater world. Although I already knew about Ted’s diving system, through some diligent research on the internet, you did a brilliant job of telling his story. I hope your video will help to spread to the Scuba diving community this obscure but significant bit of history. Thank you for taking the time to make your video.
@glennmcfarland Well there is a blast from the past, hope all is well with you Glenn.
@@johnosickey Good to hear from you. I hope all is well in your life. We should catch up sometime and talk about the early days of the diving world as well as where Scuba technology is today.
I’ve been a recreational diver since 1967 when I took lessons at the YMCA at 11 years old. I’m now 67 years old and still diving, although not as much, and not as deep, but over my lifetime I was able to do most everything one can do in recreational diving including instructing and stage decompression diving. Double hose regs were still in use when I first took classes in ‘67, but I never used one. The class had both but they gave me the single hose reg, and I never used the double hose for the rest of my life, since they went out of use by the time I was diving frequently. The first reg I purchased was the U.S Divers (Aqualung) Calypso which I still have hanging in my garage. I’m basically familiar with regulators having worked in a dive shop helping to rebuild them as part of my Dive Master training, but I never knew that the double hose was due to pressure differential. I always assumed it was just an exhaust, which always made better sense to me than modern single hose regs which exhaust in your face. This was a fascinating video and you have my subscription. Blessings!
My Dad worked at U.S. Divers (now Aqua Lung) and worked with Jacques Cousteau on several occasions and even photographed him and the Cousteau Divers. He has some really cool stories.
Your dad wasn't Keith Moore or Russell Keaton was he
Never knew about Ted Eldred and that he was the one who invented mouth regulator. This seems obvious and simple and yet more secure! Thanks for sharing! Greetings to all scuba divers!
Great, concise and informative video. Well done.
I was a commercial diver for many years and used both single hose systems for helmets from the KMB8 onwards, and twin hose regulators back in the day when SCUBA was a legitimate diving apparatus. Thankfully SCUBA is or should I say, is no longer a safe and viable means to conduct commercial diving operations. However, I recall clearly that in the early days I had a preference for the "Mistral' twin hose system until the Poseidon single hose regulators were adopted. That was a watershed in breathability and ease of use compared with anything else available at the time. ( Mid '70's) .
Cousteau's book "The Silent World" is quite a good read!!
That is a great story.... thank you for making it
Fascinating story! Never knew that about the single hose, thought it was Cousteau's invention. Genius invention and much better than the double hose. Thank you for the video!
DIFFERENT than the double hose, not necessarily "better." For some applications, such as underwater photography, many divers prefer double hose regulators because they keep the bubbles away from your face and your camera. For that reason, used double hose regulators are still sought after, and new ones come to market from time to time.
Awesome video! I've been searching for a succinct explanation of the history of SCUBA and this video does an excellent job explaining it. I'm hooked! Make a few more videos in this series!
Back in the 60s my father was a plumber/ boilermaker in Sydney Australia. He was an avid spear fisherman in his spare time as well. Hearing about the newfangled diving apparatus he got hold of some plans for a regulator of the design Cousteau had invented and set about making it out of sheet brass etc. Apparently he sold the rig in the 60s but kept the plans, he passed them on to me before he passed away recently.
Very cool!
Can you email me via my website jeffmaynard.net please? I'd like to do a magazine article on that.
As a child i was fascinated by the book ' The Silent World '.
That is what got me interested in Marine Biology
My Dad worked for JYC in he 70's. I have many Cousteau items including the RED Cap of JYC. Nice video.
Interesting. I still have my Spirotechnique double hose regulator in a nice bag to try and preserve it.
So Aqualung's not just the name of a Jethro Tull album lol. But seriously, that was very interesting. Us aussies are a bloody clever bunch.
That's actually why I clicked on this. Though maybe Cousteau moonlighted as a recording engineer in the 70s. Cheers from Canada.
@@finnmcginn9931 Yeah, maybe he did lol. Seems he knew a lot about making films at least. And it's one of Tulls best albums. I still listen to it often. Cheers from down under mate. 🙂
This video is a gem. Thank you, sir.
Thanks, Jeff. Fascinating and I never had understood the problem with the original CG reg - the demo was brilliant.
Excellent video, interesting, informative and very well presented and narrated. Subscribed.
Great video Captain! ❤
Learned on the 2 hose and knew bits of the story, thanks from old New Orleans 😎
Awesome video! Great history of the company and the regulator system. I just heard about this company 2 weeks ago so it's interesting that it popped up in my feed😁
Thank you Jeff. Your video brought back a lot of memories. I just ordered your book.
Great reminder! I still have my ol'n'battered single-stage twin-hose Mistral, just like the one you showed, 150 bar-rated; though completely outdated, it certainly breaths like nothing else except top-notch twin-stagers...
Desearía ver el CALYPSO restaurado como un merecido monumento a Cousteau.
Very interesting. Just shows you I think we all thought that Jacque Cousteau was part of the invention of todays regulator. I will look out for that book thanks 🙏
Great informative video, thank you!
In the 1980s i was able to have chat with 2 crew members from the calypso they were dock at swanhunter chagaramas trinidad west indies.
Great history lesson - thank You !
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Fascinating, Thank you..
This was so interesting!
Still got my Seibe Gorman merlin twin hose regulator.
It is still working perfectly too.
Thanks for passing on this knowledge, I hadn't realised this. Good to get the whole truth on a subject.
Nice to see you still going strong Jeff and a great presentation. Didn’t you run a historical diving association a long while ago and send out pamphlets? I’ve retired from offshore years ago since the late 60’s
Fantastic info grew up watching & marveling at Cousteaus Documentary’s always believed he invited the whole system including the compressed air tanks would like to see Mr. Eldrred get Recognition for his valuable contribution
Cousteau foi ao lado de muitos outros a ter consciência ambiental reflexiva e viajar pelo mundo, mostrando a importância da diversidade de espécies deste planeta, bem como os biomas a serem de proteção máxima para o futuro. Revelou a importância da floresta Amazônia para o planeta Terra e as espécies que lá habitam. Jacques-Yves Cousteau foi um apaixonado e um estudioso no que tange a natureza em toda a sua extensão. Explicou a importância da diversidade marinha, mergulhou nas profundezas dos mares impulsionando a ciência e as pesquisas na obtenção de respostas importantes para um futuro que precisa preservar.
Every time i hear about Jacque Cousteau i think he was around 100 years ago. Very informative video. I really hope they payed that guy a worthwhile sum. Great video :D
He died in June 1997.
@Bullfrogz100 I stand corrected. Thank ;)
I don't see Cousteau as an inventor,
The only thing that Emile Gagnan done was to repurpose something that was used for another activity, the rest is simply upgrading to resist the marine environment.
The best illustration of that was the repurpose of an aviation demand regulator as described in the Popular Science of july 1953.
very good topic.
My dad made one of these back in the 50's and I learned to use it as a kid about 10 years old. It used an aircraft demand regulator and oxygen bottle. He had previously made a diving helmet out of a small barrel with a long hose and surface air pump. He actually found an outboard motor and a Skidoo that had broken through the ice using it.
@@jimpike7445 your father was / is a ressourceful man, I admire that.
How ironic there are no comments here about Ted Eldred (Father of the single hose reg) and how he was treated....
Interesting, cheers.
great video
Good on Ted!
Fascinating 🧐
Hi Jeff - could not find an answer on line. Can you help? Was the prototype single hose CG regulator fitted with the exhaust valve at the mouthpiece end? Thanks in advance!
Thunderball was released in Dec 1965....
Interesting video, that is more than history, but explains more clearly the role of air staging. Autonome means autonomous, not automatic though .🙏
Interesting! I trained on both systems but chose to buy the single hose!
Beautiful music..what is the name of the song ?
Hi Jeff! Thanks for this great video. I would like to add Korean subtitles, but couldn't find the function under the three dots ... Could you please activate the translation function for this clip?
I just discovered that youtube deactivated the function to add subtitles to videos from other persons 😭.
Will do! (Get the book)
Thanks comrade
I'm a long time diver. So. california dive boat charters mostly. Unfortunately one trip we had a father die on a dive. His rebreather was the fault. Pour son had to motor for hours with his dad under a cover. It was sad for all of us.
It is inexcusable for him to inform oil companies of the locations of underwater oil deposits in exchange for supporting their scientific research
Excellent story. I would love to hear story about stupid PADI training (mc Donald of diving course), 🤐😏
Thanks
Invented or improved. It’s given me fascination of the underwater world. I hope to dive many more places around the world.
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Great video..
But! poor audio - the music/background is way too loud vs the spoken word.. and why would you add crackling and rustling etc???
Remember Dimitri Rebikoff and his early diving inventions... camera's, wet sub pegasus, corrective lens.
Met him, short and smell of garlic.Told him he was my hero.
I call shenanigans. There's no way that's Steve Zissou.
Jack Gusto
I thought Jethro Tull invented the aqualung??
Playing a flute underwater takes talent.
You have nailed the French accent. Lol.
Merci
Calypso, Calypso
Capt Crabe
I expected someone sitting on a park bench ... eyeing little girls with bad intent.
I am CMAS adwans instractor.Wath are yoy tockking abouth?
LURN TOOE SPLLE, **BWOLCSSA!!**
People give this guy way more credit than he deserves. Other people were doing far more extreme underwater living than this baffoon.
Cousteau was REALLY comfortable taking credit for other peoples groundbreaking work. Disgusting.