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MAGNOLIA, Ark. (AP) — In the decades following the invention of the Aqua-Lung in the early 1940s by French naval officer Jacques Cousteau and engineer Émile Gagnan, scuba diving steadily rose in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Who was Jacques-Yves Cousteau, exactly? He was an oceanographer and explorer but held no scientific degree. He was an environmentalist whose voyages were nevertheless sometimes funded ...