If Jacques Cousteau was still alive...

[scubasavvy]

What would his gear setup have in it?

I know that he created Aqualung, but I definitely think he'd own some Apollo Bio fins.

What else would his rig entail?

[WV Diver]

He would be deep into rebreathers I would imagine.

[fireflock]

A tight blue stretch suit, and oversized funky looking regulator and force fins?

Jean-Michel Cousteau : Ocean Adventures: Diving Technology | PBS

Rich

[kingfish]

he would have to have a led light in his hood.

Jas.

[navyhmc]

I believe the would have a trimix rebreather with an insanely long TBT and a minimal DCS risk.

[Soonerwink]

He would dive publicly with which ever company paid him and sponsered his show. I would guess it might be AquaLung.

[tedwhiteva]

Originally Posted by Soonerwink

He would dive publicly with which ever company paid him and sponsered his show. I would guess it might be AquaLung.

Nah, you'd see him on National Geographic Channel. Or maybe with John and Ritchie!

[Doug B]

Under Armor would sponsor him for wearing thier new "knit hat" design.....

[Znaught]

Jacques-Yves Cousteau was devoted to the double-hose regulator, which he had a part in designing by the way, and I believe he dived with them exclusively, well into the single-hose era. Were he alive today, I think he would be greatly interested in the rapidly advancing technology of rebreathers. Yet, due to the advanced age he would have (97 years old were he still alive), perhaps he wouldn't dive with them, if he dived at all, as the dive profiles that necessitate rebreathers, or at least benefit from them, may not have been what JYC would have liked to personally take on.

Thus, the only speculation that I can profer with any confidence is that he would dive a classic Royal Aqua Master double hose regulator, a model that some people consider the pinnacle of regulator technology, regardless of the number of hoses. Makes me wonder, if JYC were still alive and actively diving (and filming), his icon status might have buoyed the venerable double-hose regulator's popularity through his films.

Alas, le commandant is gone, but a good approximation of his style and his efforts is the great work that his son Jean-Michel Cousteau is doing with his Ocean Futures Society. Watch his Ocean Adventures specials on PBS. His crew uses blue coloured APD Inspiration rebreathers with Kirby Morgan M-48 SuperMasks and experimental Force Fins. Conservation focused exploration with nifty, colour coordinated gear...very cool. It's great to see the Cousteau tradition continuing.

[fisheater]

Originally Posted by Znaught

It's great to see the Cousteau tradition continuing.

We've all got to admit that we're part of the Cousteau tradition. If you didn't grow up wanting to be diving with him while watching his TV specials, then your father and mother certainly did.