"The Silent World" Captain Jacques Cousteau With Frédéric Dumas Hardcover Book 1953 Biographical History Nautical

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Captain Jacques Y. Cousteau: The Silent World 1953
w/Federic Dumas
Illustrated with color photographs

Book Jacket : "A new era … Read more Captain Jacques Y. Cousteau: The Silent World 1953
w/Federic Dumas
Illustrated with color photographs

Book Jacket : "A new era of undersea exploration began in 1943 when the young French naval officers J.Y. Cousteau, Philippe Tailliez, and the great civilian diver Frédéric Dumas, plunged into the Mediterranean with the first aqualung, co-invented by Cousteau.In this fascinating report, Cousteau and Dumas tell what it is like to be “menfish” swimming in the deep twilight zone with sharks, mantas, morays, whales, and octopi. They tell of exploring sunken ships and of the treasures they brought up. They describe ventures into an inland water cave that all but claimed their lives, and their crazy human-guinea-pig experiment with underwater explosions. Cousteau writes brilliantly of his audacious 50-fathom dive into the zone of rapture, where divers become like drunken gods; and of the 396-foot dive that took a brave companion's life.Cousteau, Dumas, and their courageous teams of divers have used their new techniques of exploration to make important discoveries in almost every branch of science. In The Silent World they share with us the greatest undersea experience men have ever had."

Preowned | Dust Jacket has flaws and tears. Interior has discoloration and age. No torn pages inside. No interior markings. Hardcover is in good condition.

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