Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau 1910-1997

"I passionately believe that those few of us who percieve the disaster ahead must band together now to warn the slumbering many. We must work for corrective measures that can be put into effect immediately for pioneering research and exploration to help us better understand the sea and its creatures. To this crusade, I have solemnly what years remain to me. As I do, I hope you will stand beside me." Scuba Diving Magazine 1995

"Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new and run headlong down an immutable course. It happened to me on that summer’s day, when my eyes were opened by the sea."

On his first freedive with goggles at the age of 26