Last Wednesday night we saw the Premiere of “Return to the Amazon” on PBS Jean-Michel Cousteau : Ocean Adventures | PBS
This was a great night for me for many reasons:
1. I was the Chief Diver of the television Special
2. Bob Evans of Force Fin was sitting in front of me and I was diving his fins in the show.
3.I was at Ocean Futures Society head quarters with Jean Michel Cousteau and most of the OFS expedition team.
It was a great night of catching up with team members and supporters with high spirits and special acknowledgements that only come after a successful project is complete.
I had spent a total of six months on two separate trips in the Amazon region and this night was my first chance to see what the PBS special Jean Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventure - Return to the Amazon looked and sounded like on television.
Our expedition into the Amazon was incredible! We visited three out of the nine countries that the South American Amazon region covers and had a chance to witness the beauty and destruction of the lungs of the planet both from above and below the water. The river system and its surrounding jungle is so thick with insects, animals and water that it would take much longer than six months to really understand and see it all, but with a large team we covered a lot of ground. We even had three different teams in three different locations at a time and the two part PBS special Return to the Amazon shows it all.
I had a chance to dive in different areas and different rivers of the Amazon. Come to think of it Fabien Cousteau ABOUT Dive Equipment myself are some of the few who have dove in two rivers during the same dive. There is a section of the Amazon where two rivers meet. They actually run parallel to each other and for two days Fabien and I braved the waters by diving from one river into the other. It really is almost like going swimming from coffee with no cream or milk into coffee mixed with cream or milk. The Rio Solimoes and the Rio Negro rivers running parallel to each other was a dive I will not forget. This was an open water dive with no bottom. Both of us chose the OPS Force Fin Dive Equipment Force Fins In other areas I used the Excellerating Force Fin as written in another post, Underwater Amazon http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/force-fin/200084-underwater-amazon.html
This Wednesday April 9th at 8pm PBS will be showing the second part of Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures Return to the Amazon so tune in and gear up for another adventure in learning about this interesting place in South America. If you think it is too far away to effect you where you live, think again we are all connected, Return to the Amazon.
This was a great night for me for many reasons:
1. I was the Chief Diver of the television Special
2. Bob Evans of Force Fin was sitting in front of me and I was diving his fins in the show.
3.I was at Ocean Futures Society head quarters with Jean Michel Cousteau and most of the OFS expedition team.
It was a great night of catching up with team members and supporters with high spirits and special acknowledgements that only come after a successful project is complete.
I had spent a total of six months on two separate trips in the Amazon region and this night was my first chance to see what the PBS special Jean Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventure - Return to the Amazon looked and sounded like on television.
Our expedition into the Amazon was incredible! We visited three out of the nine countries that the South American Amazon region covers and had a chance to witness the beauty and destruction of the lungs of the planet both from above and below the water. The river system and its surrounding jungle is so thick with insects, animals and water that it would take much longer than six months to really understand and see it all, but with a large team we covered a lot of ground. We even had three different teams in three different locations at a time and the two part PBS special Return to the Amazon shows it all.
I had a chance to dive in different areas and different rivers of the Amazon. Come to think of it Fabien Cousteau ABOUT Dive Equipment myself are some of the few who have dove in two rivers during the same dive. There is a section of the Amazon where two rivers meet. They actually run parallel to each other and for two days Fabien and I braved the waters by diving from one river into the other. It really is almost like going swimming from coffee with no cream or milk into coffee mixed with cream or milk. The Rio Solimoes and the Rio Negro rivers running parallel to each other was a dive I will not forget. This was an open water dive with no bottom. Both of us chose the OPS Force Fin Dive Equipment Force Fins In other areas I used the Excellerating Force Fin as written in another post, Underwater Amazon http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/force-fin/200084-underwater-amazon.html
This Wednesday April 9th at 8pm PBS will be showing the second part of Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures Return to the Amazon so tune in and gear up for another adventure in learning about this interesting place in South America. If you think it is too far away to effect you where you live, think again we are all connected, Return to the Amazon.
