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A generation ago, Jacques-Yves Cousteau revealed the oceans' mysteries to millions of landlocked PBS television viewers, and inspired a groundswell of public awareness of the unique problems faced by the world's marine environments. Now, 30 years later, Jacques' son Jean-Michel Cousteau and his expedition team have set sail to explore dangerous and spectacular locales across the globe in the high-definition series, Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures, premiering with the film Voyage to Kure, narrated by Pierce Brosnan. Find out when Ocean Adventures airs on your local station.
Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures Season One
VOYAGE TO KURE
Follow Jean-Michel Cousteau and his crew of divers as they explore an array of natural phenomena, investigate little-known ecosystems and meet with friendly and not-so-friendly inhabitants. The initial two-part episode, "Voyage to Kure," sails to the outermost islands in the Northwest Hawaiian Island Archipelago where diverse wildlife populations are found to be struggling against the effects of pollution, over-fishing and development.
Narrated by Pierce Brosnan.
SHARKS AT RISK
Long feared as an object of terror, sharks are gaining a new reputation due to unprecedented observation -- yet their numbers are quickly dwindling due to the actions of humans. To better understand shark behavior and the impact their reputation has had on their survival, the Cousteau team observes gray sharks in French Polynesia and great white sharks in South African waters -- unprotected by a shark cage.
Narrated by Pierce Brosnan.
THE GRAY WHALE OBSTACLE COURSE
The Cousteau team follows gray whales, unchanged for 600,000 years and under constant threat of extinction, from the nursery lagoons of Baja California north to frigid feeding grounds in the Bering Sea -- through the longest and most polluted migration routes of any whale species.
Narrated by Pierce Brosnan.
AMERICA’S UNDERWATER TREASURES
This two-part installment brings viewers to the rarely visited underwater parks that constitute the National Marine Sanctuary System -- a diverse and uniquely American group of ecosystems which promises to inspire an ethic of ocean preservation that will translate far beyond any national borders.
Narrated by Robert Redford.
Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures Season Two
RETURN TO THE AMAZON
The Amazon: the most powerful of the world's rivers. It flows through the largest tropical rainforest, the natural theater where evolution has gone wild, creating the greatest biodiversity on the planet. Twenty-five years ago
Jean-Michel explored this region with his father, the legendary Jacques Cousteau. Since then an area the size of Texas has been deforested.
Narrated by Delroy Lindo.
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