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The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure, by the first men to swim at record depths with the freedom of fish by Captain J.Y. Cousteau, Harper & Row, 1953, First Edition. This is a Collectible, HARDCOVER Book and Dust jacket. This is the Hardcover Version of this Fascinating Book. A new era of undersea exploration began ten years ago when the young French Naval Officers, J.V. Cousteau and Philippe Tailliez, and the great civilian diver, Frederic Dumas, plunged with their first aqualung, of which Cousteau was co-inventor. With this now-famous independent breathing apparatus, they have dived nearly naked into pressures that have crushed submarines, in depths ranging to 366 feet, Dumas's world Record. Simply FASCINATING.