Simone Cousteau (née Melchior; 19 January 1919 – 1 December 1990) was a French explorer. She was the first woman scuba diver and aquanaut, and wife and business partner of undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Although never visible in the Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau series, Simone
- 1 December 1990 (aged 71)
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau, (m. .mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}1937)
Simone Cousteau (de soltera Melchior ; 19 de enero de 1919 - 1 de diciembre de 1990) fue una exploradora francesa. Fue la primera mujer buceadora y acuanauta , esposa y socia comercial del explorador submarino Jacques-Yves Cousteau . Aunque nunca fue visible en la serie Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau , Simone jugó un papel clave en la ...
- Simone Cousteau’s Early Life
- Invention of The Aqua Lung
- Life Onboard The Calypso
Despite being born on the Mediterranean French coast in 1919, Simone and her family soon moved to Japan. Her father, Henri Melchior, took a job as a director with Air Liquide (France’s main producer of industrial gases at the time). This, surprisingly, was the key to the invention of the aqua lung and the scuba diving apparatus we know today. In 19...
In 1942, Simone’s father provided financing and the manufacturing expertise of Emile Gagnan at Air Liquide to build the aqua lung. Would the diving industry look as it does today if Simone had never met Jacques? We’ll never know, but things could have turned out quite differently had the stars not aligned. In no time, the Cousteaus’ zest for aquati...
By 1963, Simone had become the world’s first female aquanaut by living in Starfish House, an underwater habitat, alongside her newfound role as mother, healer, nurse and psychiatrist to the all-male crew for 40 years, earning her the nickname “La Bergère,” meaning “The Shepherdess.” As the world’s first female underwater videographer — arguably the...
Simone Cousteau (de soltera Melchior ; 19 de enero de 1919 - 1 de diciembre de 1990) fue una exploradora francesa. Fue la primera mujer buceadora y acuanauta, esposa y socia comercial del explorador submarino Jacques-Yves Cousteau .
Simone Melchior Cousteau (1919-1990) est la première épouse et la partenaire de l'explorateur Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Première femme à plonger avec un scaphandre Cousteau-Gagnan , elle est aux côtés de son mari durant la plupart de ses aventures sous-marines, sans toutefois jamais apparaître dans la série L'Odyssée sous ...
- Simone Cousteau, Simone Melchior Cousteau
11 de jun. de 2017 · Soon after Cousteau discovered his love of the undersea world, he also declared his love for Simone Melchior. The couple married in 1937, and Simone was never in the shadows of Jacques's life.
El 12 de julio de 1937 se casó con Simone Melchior, su socia comercial, [6] con quien tuvo dos hijos, Jean-Michel y Philippe. En 1991, un año después de la muerte por cáncer de su esposa Simone, se casó con Francine Triplet. Ya tenían una hija, Diane Cousteau y un hijo, Pierre-Yves Cousteau.