Steve Cramer wrote:

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Maybe Cousteau invented wetsuits? Not according to this, although it
does credit him with inventing the SCUBA tank.
http://www.divinghistory.com/historyofthewetsuit.htm


I read his book. His claim was that he invented the regulator. The tank
was available (since there were already needs for compressed air and
tanks were quite available after WWII). I think there is some doubt
whether he, or his buddy (Dumas?), who actually invented the regulator,
even.

Still, interesting character, to say the least. Watching him evolve from
a callous intruder into the depths into one of its greatest caretakers
was interesting, to say the least.

Rick