Bringing Simone Cousteau's adventures to the surface - BBC News
Simone Cousteau was the first female aquanaut, but history has better remembered her explorer husband Jacques.
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Simone Cousteau was the first female aquanaut, and she explored and researched the ocean with her husband Jacques aboard their ship.

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