EPAVE (1943) - Jacques Yves Cousteau

The years of World War II were decisive for the history of diving. After the armistice of 1940, the family of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Simone Melchior, with whom he had two sons, Jean-Michel (born 1938) and Philippe (1940–1979), took refuge in Megève, where he became a friend of the Ichac family who also lived there. Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Marcel Ichac shared the same desire to reveal to the general public unknown and inaccessible places — for Cousteau the underwater world and for Ichac the high mountains