Happy Cousteau Day
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Although I worked on a two-hour documentary for Cousteau's TBS series "Cousteau's Rediscovery of the World," I never met him personally (I was on Alcyone with his son JMC). He was certainly one of my inspirations for getting into SCUBA diving and marine biology back in the 60s. Happy birthday, Captain.
Cousteau and Hans Hass were my inspiration to get into diving, probably the consequence for being brought up in the 70's in front of a TV set. But nowadays, quote those names on a dive boat... Only old timers will remember them, alas...
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May be this case is in only USA but world divers does not forget them ever ..especially in Europe..
Did anyone see "Shark Week" yesterday on Discovery Channel? They featured a video titled "Nuclear Sharks," which was an expedition to the Marianas Islands by Phillip and Ashlan Cousteau. This is the third generation Cousteau family. That show was very well done, and represents I think the beginning of another Cousteau generation taking to the underwater world, on a crusade against the slaughter of sharks. It is well worth viewing.
Shark Week
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Cousteau,_Jr.
By the way, I got into diving because of Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World, which showed at my local movie theater in about 1957. My Dad took me to see it, and I was enthralled. As a kid, seeing a fully-suited helmet diver outside the theater, and then watching Cousteau's team swim free in the film was magical. I've been hooked ever since. That summer, and the next, I started saving my berry and bean picking money for a scuba unit, and get it in 1959. I've been scuba diving ever since.
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Shark Week
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Cousteau,_Jr.
By the way, I got into diving because of Jacques Cousteau's The Silent World, which showed at my local movie theater in about 1957. My Dad took me to see it, and I was enthralled. As a kid, seeing a fully-suited helmet diver outside the theater, and then watching Cousteau's team swim free in the film was magical. I've been hooked ever since. That summer, and the next, I started saving my berry and bean picking money for a scuba unit, and get it in 1959. I've been scuba diving ever since.
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Thanks a lot for the advice, I'm going to get it.
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