Philippe Diole

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Philippe Victor Diole (1908-) is a French author and undersea explorer.

Diole was born August 24, 1908, in Saint Maur, France, son of Marcel (a jurist) and Elizabeth (Legrand) Diole. He married Marguerite Monsenergue on July 6, 1953. He received a degree from the University of Paris, Licencie en Droit, in 1928.

With Cousteau he co-authored 7 of the 8-volume series The Undersea Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1970-1975) and co-authored The Whale (1987).

[edit] Bibliography

• Sous les plis du drapeau noir (1949) ("Under the Black Flag")
• The Undersea Adventure (1953) (French: L'Aventure sous-marine (1951))
• 4,000 Years Under the Sea: Excursions in Undersea Archeology (1954) (French: Promenades d'archeologie sous-marine (1952))
• Underwater Exploration: A History (1954) (French: L'Exploration sous-marine (1954))
• Au bord de la terre: Fragments de la vie d'un plongeur (1954) ("A Diver's Life")
• Les Paysages de la mer, de la surface a l'abime (1954)
• The Gates of the Sea (1955) (French: Les Portes de la mer) (1953))
• The Seas of Sicily (1955)
• Dans le Fezzan inconnu (1956) ("In the Unknown Fezzan")
• Le Tresor du banc d'argent (1956) ("The Treasure of the Silver Bank")
• Sahara Adventure (1956), in England as The Most Beautiful Desert of All (1959), French: Le plus beau desert du monde (1955)
• Du ciel a la stratosphere (1958) ("From the Sky to the Stratosphere")
• L'Eau profonde: Roman (1959) ("Deep Water")
• Okapi Fever: A Novel (1965) (French: L'Okapi: Roman (1963))
• Chasse d'Afrique (1965) ("Big Game in Africa")
• The Undersea Discoveries of Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1970-75, 7-volumes, with Cousteau)
  • Diving for Sunken Treasure (1971)
  • Life and Death in a Coral Sea (1971)
  • The Whale: Mighty Monarch of the Sea (1972)
  • Octopus and Squid: The Soft Intelligence (1973)
  • Three Adventures: Galápagos, Titicaca, the Blue Holes (1973)
  • Diving Companions: Sea Lion, Elephant Seal, Walrus (1974)
  • Dolphin (1975)
• The Forgotten People of the Pacific (1977) (French: Les Oublies du pacifique (1976))
• The Errant Ark ...man's Relationship With Animals (1974) (French: Les Animaux malades de l'homme (1974))
• Lettres au president de la republique sur la mort des francais (1975)
• The Memoirs of Falco: Chief Diver of the Calypso (1977, with Albert Falco)) (French: Les Memoirs de Falco: chef plongeur de la calypso (1976))
• L'Aventure de l'homme dans la mer (1977)
• The Whale (1987, with Cousteau)

[edit] References

• Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2008. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2008. Document Number: H1000025732