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In The Silent World, Cousteau describes in colorful French-accented English the adventures that paved the way to his remarkable discoveries: his work defusing undetonated torpedoes in the Bay of Nice during World War II; his perilous experimental forays with untried equipment into deeper and deeper levels of the sea; discoveries in sunken ships; observing the animal life of the oceans (whales and porpoises playing ''chasing games as if they had a brain capacity for satire''; sharks spooning away ''solid flesh like warm butter''); and encountering the strange silent panorama that opened up before the eyes of the first human beings to venture freely about the deeps.Cousteau, Jacques is the author of 'Silent World - Jacques-Yves Yves Cousteau - Paperback' with ISBN 9781558211377 and ISBN 1558211373.
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