Scuba diver with an umbrella, 1949. In 1943, Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau invents, with Emile Gagnan, the first commercially successful open circuit type of Scuba diving equipment, the aqualung.

Scuba diver with an umbrella, 1949. In 1943, Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau invents, with Emile Gagnan, the first commercially successful open circuit type of Scuba diving equipment, the aqualung.

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