The sea is the universal sewer. - Jacques Cousteau

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The sea is the universal sewer.

Jacques Cousteau

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About Jacques Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997), commonly known in English as Jacques Cousteau, was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-Lung, pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française.

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Alternative Names: Jacques-Yves Cousteau

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If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed — if we are not willing — we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans — there will always be life — but they're getting sicker every year.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.