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The silent world is noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color. He chronicled his early days of underwater adventure in the silent worlda memoir. Le monde du silence is a 1956 french documentary film codirected by the famed french oceanographer jacques cousteau and a young louis malle. The undersea world of jacques cousteau 1967 documented a scientific world cruise from the red sea through the indian ocean to the pacific ocean, as far north as alaska. Because of his efforts to promote ocean conservation and expand awareness of the undersea world, cousteau was named a commander of the legion of honour in 1972, and was awarded the u. Y dumas, frederic and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Cousteau publishes the silent world french oceanographer jacquesyves cousteau publishes his most famous and lasting work, the silent world, on this day. With the aqualung, cousteau and his crew were able to explore and film parts of the ocean depths that had never been seen before, resulting in such oscarwinning movies as the silent world. It was a global phenomenon winning a palm dor at the cannes film festival in 1956 and an academy award that same year as well. This is a good book which explored many of the technical aspects of diving, as well as giving a good explanation of the development of deepdiving techniques and underwater filming.

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