le monde du silence
1963
co-directed by louis malle and jacques cousteau
...with some nifty gadgets
footage from his first scuba dive
in 1946
"At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings ... I thought of the helmet diver arriving where I was on his ponderous boots and struggling to walk a few yards, obsessed with his umbilici and his head imprisoned in copper. On skin dives I had seen him leaning dangerously forward to make a step, clamped in heavier pressure at the ankles than the head, a cripple in an alien land. From this day forward we would swim across miles of country no man had known, free and level, with our flesh feeling what the fish scales know."
-jacques cousteau
an excerpt from
1953
