Editing Jacques Cousteau (section)

===Early life===
Cousteau was born on 11 June 1910, in [[Saint-André-de-Cubzac]], Gironde, France, to Daniel and Élisabeth Cousteau. He had one brother, [[Pierre-Antoine Cousteau|Pierre-Antoine]]. Cousteau completed his preparatory studies at the [[Collège Stanislas de Paris|Collège Stanislas]] in Paris. In 1930, he entered the [[École navale]] and graduated as a gunnery officer. However, an automobile accident, which broke both his arms, cut short his career in naval aviation. The accident forced Cousteau to change his plans to become a naval pilot, so he then indulged his passion for the ocean.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacques-Cousteau|title=Jacques Cousteau {{!}} French ocean explorer and engineer|website=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=2 March 2016|archive-date=25 August 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230825232428/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacques-Cousteau|url-status=live}}</ref>

In [[Toulon]], where he was serving on the ''[[French battleship Condorcet|Condorcet]]'', Cousteau carried out his first underwater experiments, thanks to his friend [[Philippe Tailliez]] who in 1936 lent him some [[Maurice Fernez|Fernez]] underwater [[goggle]]s, predecessors of modern [[swimming goggles]].<ref name="cousteau1"/> Cousteau also belonged to the information service of the [[French Navy]], and was sent on missions to Shanghai and Japan (1935–1938) and in the [[USSR]] (1939).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jacques Cousteau {{!}} Biography, Quotes, Books, WordCloud, Life History Timeline {{!}}Minds of Science |url=https://www.mindsofscience.com/scientist?name=Jacques_Cousteau |access-date=19 July 2022 |website=www.mindsofscience.com |archive-date=12 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230212121908/https://www.mindsofscience.com/scientist/?name=Jacques_Cousteau |url-status=usurped }}</ref>

On 12 July 1937, he married [[Simone Melchior]], his business partner,<ref name="Lunn2021">{{cite news |last1=Lunn |first1=Rosemary E. |title=WDHOF announces new Simone Melchior Cousteau Grant |url=https://xray-mag.com/content/wdhof-announces-new-grant |access-date=28 July 2021 |work=X-Ray International Dive Magazine |date=8 March 2021 |language=en |archive-date=28 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210728141611/https://xray-mag.com/content/wdhof-announces-new-grant |url-status=dead }}</ref> with whom he had two sons, [[Jean-Michel Cousteau|Jean-Michel]] (born 1938) and [[Philippe Cousteau|Philippe]] (1940–1979). His sons took part in the adventures of the ''[[RV Calypso|Calypso]]''. In 1991, six months after his wife Simone's death from cancer, he married [[Francine Cousteau|Francine Triplet]]. They already had a daughter Diane Cousteau (born 1980) and a son, Pierre-Yves Cousteau (born 1982, during Cousteau's marriage to his first wife).