The Silent World

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 'The Silent World' with ISBN 9781850892274 and ISBN 185089227X.