In the early 1970s...we were kids on a 5th-floor walk-up building in Brooklyn. Me and my buddies planned our "Cousteau Society" meetings and watched these programs. TV consisted of 11 channels or so... and we wanted to learn something...and couldn't care less what the likes of The Kardashians, The Jerry Springers, or the many others that today have become millionaires from the nonsense on the airwaves. Now we have high-def TV... 1,500,000 channels... but nothing like the good shows we watched.
Jacques led the way. Too bad so few have followed in his footsteps. So many firsts. I grew up on this guy. He left a HUGE hole in public education and deep sea exploration when he left us!
Loyd bridges has used a lot of experamental diving equipment designed by Jacque Cousteau even the aqualung that was invented by Jacque before that you wore a heavy helmet screwed down on a heavy suit with lead weighted boots and you were lowered on a platform with a lifeline air hose then in 1948 the aqualung was invented Jacque Cousteau name is on the patent in France the series Seahunt was introduced in 1958 and you can see how primitive it was compared to what’s out today same concept but more user friendly
Hi, I discovered why a few years back, tens of thousands of dolphins were found dead at French beaches, and I made a video about it. I also speak French.
Some have called the Cousteau series the best documentary series ever produced. After forty years, I don't believe there would be much argument with that statement.
My big thank you to Jacques Cousteau, he inspired me to love the nature and cherish about the life on our planet. I took bachelor degree program in biology at the university. Yes, I didn't study much of aquatic animals, but I did take courses in environmental microbiology. Jacques Cousteau is my hero.
isnt it amazing how far micropods have grown to become plankton and then shrimp, and other oceanic life? We filter the actual building blocks of life into fresh water. And imbalance the ecosystem. I'm wondering if there's a ripple affect from the filter method. If it changes the molecules and DNA of our source of water.
This is why i love this guy, he actually inspired me to become a diver and desern how to swim under water on my own just watching his documentary but he is french so he mixes perception of reality with poetry, YEAH thats right poetry that is why they are so corny sometimes. But he did inspired me into diving wich brought me so much happiness.
God I love the French... and I'm not joking. There is just something about the casual attitude to doing crazy stuff. Ok. I guess they figure "Hey.. We're already headed to the Antarctic.. so compared to that smoking while loading fuel isn't even worth considering.". Great stuff.. I dearly miss him and his crew.
Watching this again at 55 years old brings back great memories of farming and good times. Jacques Cousteau always talked about conversation and protecting our oceans I hope we can save us from ourselves
He said he seen some kind of creature underwater that he said the world wasn’t ready for what he seen. I think it was in Lake Tahoe. Also he heard the sounds of Hell down there as well . There’s a lot he didn’t tell us about. Like finding Atlantis , off the coast of Cuba . Ect
The documentaries of Cousteau were always the best, I would like to be able to see all these documentaries again..... Thanks for upload it, it brings to me many memories =)
Woooooow! This program really fills the human mind with wonder for nature. Cousteau had a way of making science cool without looking nerdy. Thanks so much for the post.
No. Michel Laval dies in this expedition when a helicopter blade hits him. Philippe Cousteau died in a plane crash or to be more precise, he died before the crash when the propeller got loose and entered the cockpit killing him instantly. Sad stuff.
That was back in the day before "Science" caught on with the mainstream. Most of that gear was held together with spit, tape, faith, determination, raw skill and fortune rather then corporate sponsorship or reality TV. Aka true pioneer. If you like this one. Check out his early dives into the volcanic waters. And his footage of his deep water dives. Amazing, brave guys. I wish I was 1/100th as cool as Cousteau :)
Rod says this is part three of a four part series. Is the whole series available on DVD? For me, this brings back memories of the 70s. But I want to see more of it anyway :)
Originally, the Calypso was a minesweeper, HMS J-826, built in the USA and loaned to the Brits under Lend Lease in 1942. How ironic it is that the ship that help introduced millions to "deez peaceful creatures of the sea" was once a warship.
I was watching the Jacques Cousteau You Tube video, and saw your question about Rod Serling. He did indeed narrate this series, even after forty years it is still considered one of the best narrations ever in a televised series. Serling was in a class by himself !
I learned SCUBA in the late 60s in the days way before the BCD. You had to set up your weight belt just right according to the suit and gear being used for the dive. The goal being to achieve slightly positive buoyancy at the surface. With modern gear, your weight can be 20lbs too heavy and all you need to do is push a button to compensate. I still have the first model USD single hose reg from 1970. This video makes me want to grab my gear, fill the tanks and go cut a hole in the ice!
This brings back great memories, I learned to dive because of these movies, granted, not in the antarctic... Great to see the Calypso and crew again and hear Captain Cousteau's voice again.
What a great group of adventurers. I love that they all wear their little orange caps. They just leap into the water off of an iceberg and swim to their little inflatable boat. What a great adventure and so french and stylish and manly at the same time.
God I love those old Cousteau documentaries, he had a knack in his best films of bringing us to far still wild places and showing the human aspect of getting there which modern documentaries either don't do or they overdo (e.g. Steve Irwin much as I liked him). - His best expeditions of this genre were antartica, the nile and absolutely the best - AMAZON - no-one has made a better docu on this area yet!
My dad hated television. We were restricted from watching TV on school nights except for holiday specials, PBS programs that he deemed important, and every bit of Jacques Cousteau that ever aired in America. I didn't grow up to be a scientist or an explorer, but I do love nature and deeply appreciate the individuals who study and fight to preserve it. God bless the Cousteau family!
long ago I watched a video from jacques cousteau with calypso chasing dolphins and then someone swimming with humpback whales, with a baby one too, anyone knows where I might find it?
Agreed I LOVED Cousteau's films, he was the first to bring us down there and albeit did some crazy things (like dynamiting reef in the 50s as research / filming) it was a different era, he changed attitudes and changed his behaviours as knowledge increased. He had an ego and was a showman but so what he also had compassion and enthusiasm - he was a deeply human guy. A man i very much admire a hero of mine.
Jacques Cousteau is my favorite explorer. mainly because he was one of the few, who realized how fragile this planet is & dedicated his life to doing something about it. Viva la Calypso just her presence, conveys a desperately needed message of hope. In a world so badly damaged by nearly all of our species exertions.
"In order to stabilize world population, it is necessary to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it." - Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, as quoted in "The Courier," a publication of the U.N. Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (U.N.E.S.C.O.)
I'm not eugenic, I'm not anything! I just hate watching the world getting overrun with people like it is now, and if you haven't noticed, industrialized countries are the largest in the world, and you think they're not causing huge imbalances?
Nurtured on Jacque..in Sarasota FL..used to sail and dive so much..Loved the background music . The Rod seeking. Narration was amazing.. Jacque like an Uncle.Devastaded when his son died. Not sure he ever recovered from that.Heard a story that he and his divers heard hideous screams in deep water cave they were exploring that quickly ended his diving .
@blastforth Additionally, the Calypso also counted with an special aircraft named "Catalina", which was also used once as a guard plane during World War II, and, as it was said on the 33th chapter of "The Undersea World", ironically changed its role into a pacific one.
yea i used to watch this as a kid and thought it was cool but the more i watch now i'm just disgusted. this stupid frog's obsession with power over nature is lame and barbaric and again overshadows anything inovative that they might have pulled off. sooo Zissiou!
Those Orca must be stressed out and aggressive. How come their fins aren’t bent over like they are at SeaWorld? The lady at SeaWorld told me it was normal for Orca’s fins to be bent 😂
@DENISPANAMA je pense que ce regle a commence apres que ils ont mittent le video en youtube. desole, je suis americain et mon francais n'est pas le meillieur.
The balloon didn't make too much sense when they have a chopper, other than it makes good television. The only thing missing - "Philippe and Falco prepare to launch low orbit satellite to look for safe passage through the ice pack".
A flat map of the sea, cant match 3D reality. Which is why that 'Drake Passage' couldn't be chartered. But they should have known that compact breaks would've amassed like that. Even with hydrophone signal and satellite surveillance from UCS. Quetzacoatl is real its not a myth. Whether you wanna translate that to Global Warming or Sunspot crisis or even orbital displacement. Them icebergs is breaking down and its been happening. This was made in the 1920's right?
@kraftymomma1979 My television was heavily restricted as well, but for different reasons. We did not have cable and could only get three stations. Our neighbors would talk about TV shows as though everyone knew them well. I would have no idea what they were referring to. It is funny that now I am 50 and have cable for my renters, I still do not watch TV. I stopped watching TV in my mid 20's because it insulted my intelligence. I now only watch cooking shows and an occasional movie.
My dad hated television. We were restricted from watching TV on school nights except for holiday specials, PBS programs that he deemed important, and every bit of Jacques Cousteau that ever aired in America. I didn't grow up to be a scientist or an explorer, but I do love nature and deeply the individuals and who study and fight to preserve it. God bless the Cousteau family!
@blunklaura You trolling videos to start political arguments? I'd take Sara Palin over Barbra "I worked hard for this job" boxer any day. Boxer and Pilosi are so full of hot air they don't even need a balloon.
Cousteau brought us images that most of us would never get to see. I remember when his son fell into a crevace and died. He continued the exploration until it was over. I was in my first year of college and this almost made me sick for a while.
In the early 1970s...we were kids on a 5th-floor walk-up building in Brooklyn. Me and my buddies planned our "Cousteau Society" meetings and watched these programs. TV consisted of 11 channels or so... and we wanted to learn something...and couldn't care less what the likes of The Kardashians, The Jerry Springers, or the many others that today have become millionaires from the nonsense on the airwaves. Now we have high-def TV... 1,500,000 channels... but nothing like the good shows we watched.
Is that Rod Serling of the twilight zone in the beginning?
CratersAndCream : Yes, I believe it is.
*That* ......was totally captivatng.....
It certainly is Rod Serling.
@whovian1971 Lol dude you made me chuckle.
Lucky bastards going over Antarctica in a hot air balloon. So jealous ...
Jacques led the way. Too bad so few have followed in his footsteps. So many firsts. I grew up on this guy. He left a HUGE hole in public education and deep sea exploration when he left us!
The Calypso was always so well equipped it was like a Batcave on water. Sweet!
With all the technology we have today it's a disgrace we haven't moved forward
Loyd bridges has used a lot of experamental diving equipment designed by Jacque Cousteau even the aqualung that was invented by Jacque before that you wore a heavy helmet screwed down on a heavy suit with lead weighted boots and you were lowered on a platform with a lifeline air hose then in 1948 the aqualung was invented Jacque Cousteau name is on the patent in France the series Seahunt was introduced in 1958 and you can see how primitive it was compared to what’s out today same concept but more user friendly
I met Jean Cousteau who is carrying on his work. The legacy lives on
Hi, I discovered why a few years back, tens of thousands of dolphins were found dead at French beaches, and I made a video about it. I also speak French.
I remember watching these when we were little in the 70s.. what an amazing man and crew.. there is nothing like this anymore
So did i... about age 5 or 6; and i am fascinated :)
Some have called the Cousteau series the best documentary series ever produced. After forty years, I don't believe there would be much argument with that statement.
I beg you all to watch The Odyssey , a splendid and positive portrayl of this amazing man and his phenomenally productive team.
I've just watched it on TV...interesting because it shows another man, a little différent of what we used to know..
Ships of wood, men of steel
My big thank you to Jacques Cousteau, he inspired me to love the nature and cherish about the life on our planet. I took bachelor degree program in biology at the university. Yes, I didn't study much of aquatic animals, but I did take courses in environmental microbiology. Jacques Cousteau is my hero.
isnt it amazing how far micropods have grown to become plankton and then shrimp, and other oceanic life? We filter the actual building blocks of life into fresh water. And imbalance the ecosystem. I'm wondering if there's a ripple affect from the filter method. If it changes the molecules and DNA of our source of water.
Cousteau was way ahead of his time. A true explorer. All hail!!!
Every saturday I sat before the TV at 07:00 am to see these documentary’s.. oh the days before adult troubles
Cousteau is really a great guy. He gave me the passion to explore the nature
Brilliant man for his age. I remember growing up watching his docos. My kids used to call him Sharks Custard :/Thanks for the upload!!
This is the single greatest thing I've seen on UA-cam in years.
This is why i love this guy, he actually inspired me to become a diver and desern how to swim under water on my own just watching his documentary but he is french so he mixes perception of reality with poetry, YEAH thats right poetry that is why they are so corny sometimes.
But he did inspired me into diving wich brought me so much happiness.
God I love the French... and I'm not joking. There is just something about the casual attitude to doing crazy stuff.
Ok. I guess they figure "Hey.. We're already headed to the Antarctic.. so compared to that smoking while loading fuel isn't even worth considering.".
Great stuff.. I dearly miss him and his crew.
Great to see these shows again, I watched religiously as a child and continue to be inspired by Cousteau's work. Thanks for posting!
Watching this again at 55 years old brings back great memories of farming and good times.
Jacques Cousteau always talked about conversation and protecting our oceans
I hope we can save us from ourselves
can you imagine the things that that man experienced? What a life!
And much of it was first-time for anyone. Incredible!
He said he seen some kind of creature underwater that he said the world wasn’t ready for what he seen. I think it was in Lake Tahoe. Also he heard the sounds of Hell down there as well . There’s a lot he didn’t tell us about. Like finding Atlantis , off the coast of Cuba . Ect
The documentaries of Cousteau were always the best, I would like to be able to see all these documentaries again..... Thanks for upload it, it brings to me many memories =)
Woooooow! This program really fills the human mind with wonder for nature. Cousteau had a way of making science cool without looking nerdy. Thanks so much for the post.
This was my second life in an imaginary world. Much better than Warcraft for a 10 year old kid.
No. Michel Laval dies in this expedition when a helicopter blade hits him. Philippe Cousteau died in a plane crash or to be more precise, he died before the crash when the propeller got loose and entered the cockpit killing him instantly. Sad stuff.
That was back in the day before "Science" caught on with the mainstream. Most of that gear was held together with spit, tape, faith, determination, raw skill and fortune rather then corporate sponsorship or reality TV.
Aka true pioneer. If you like this one. Check out his early dives into the volcanic waters. And his footage of his deep water dives. Amazing, brave guys.
I wish I was 1/100th as cool as Cousteau :)
A legend for his generation and many more generations to come. A legend, a hero, Jacques Cousteau
he was my inspiration, i`m been a commercial diver for 37 years now!!!
Rod says this is part three of a four part series. Is the whole series available on DVD? For me, this brings back memories of the 70s. But I want to see more of it anyway :)
Originally, the Calypso was a minesweeper, HMS J-826, built in the USA and loaned to the Brits under Lend Lease in 1942. How ironic it is that the ship that help introduced millions to "deez peaceful creatures of the sea" was once a warship.
I grew up watching these incredible films.
This is a lovely doc... 5 stars
well done i really like this one, i came to a meeting that had a former cousteau diver (stephen arrington).
it's both utterly reckless, and totally fascinating
I'll say
One his men died on the Antartica expedition
I was watching the Jacques Cousteau You Tube video, and saw your question about Rod Serling. He did indeed narrate this series, even after forty years it is still considered one of the best narrations ever in a televised series. Serling was in a class by himself !
They are lucky they didn't go too far over antarctic, over the MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
I learned SCUBA in the late 60s in the days way before the BCD.
You had to set up your weight belt just right according to the suit and gear being used for the dive.
The goal being to achieve slightly positive buoyancy at the surface.
With modern gear, your weight can be 20lbs too heavy and all you need to do is push a button to compensate.
I still have the first model USD single hose reg from 1970.
This video makes me want to grab my gear, fill the tanks and go cut a hole in the ice!
legendary
This brings back great memories, I learned to dive because of these movies, granted, not in the antarctic...
Great to see the Calypso and crew again and hear Captain Cousteau's voice again.
The unimaginable courage of these men to dive underneath the ice like that… Awesome!
COUSTEAU IS MY IDOL
Did he ever find the jaguar shark that ate his friend?
What a great group of adventurers. I love that they all wear their little orange caps. They just leap into the water off of an iceberg and swim to their little inflatable boat. What a great adventure and so french and stylish and manly at the same time.
Yes it is Rod Serling ............. NICE!!!
so much respect
God I love those old Cousteau documentaries, he had a knack in his best films of bringing us to far still wild places and showing the human aspect of getting there which modern documentaries either don't do or they overdo (e.g. Steve Irwin much as I liked him). - His best expeditions of this genre were antartica, the nile and absolutely the best - AMAZON - no-one has made a better docu on this area yet!
maestro Cousteau!!
He would be so disappointed to see all the plastic in the ocean now
Thanks for posting. That's exactly the kind of thing I was looking for.
My dad hated television. We were restricted from watching TV on school nights except for holiday specials, PBS programs that he deemed important, and every bit of Jacques Cousteau that ever aired in America. I didn't grow up to be a scientist or an explorer, but I do love nature and deeply appreciate the individuals who study and fight to preserve it. God bless the Cousteau family!
long ago I watched a video from jacques cousteau with calypso chasing dolphins and then someone swimming with humpback whales, with a baby one too, anyone knows where I might find it?
Untethered hot air balloon flight over an antarctic sea.. what could possibly go wrong?
God I love these guys.
Captain COusteau. Such a legendary figure.
mission impossible: teaching french to pinguins*
This film is amazing!
Agreed I LOVED Cousteau's films, he was the first to bring us down there and albeit did some crazy things (like dynamiting reef in the 50s as research / filming) it was a different era, he changed attitudes and changed his behaviours as knowledge increased. He had an ego and was a showman but so what he also had compassion and enthusiasm - he was a deeply human guy. A man i very much admire a hero of mine.
Jacques Cousteau is my favorite explorer. mainly because he was one of the few, who realized how fragile this planet is & dedicated his life to doing something about it. Viva la Calypso just her presence, conveys a desperately needed message of hope. In a world so badly damaged by nearly all of our species exertions.
I would give anything I own to be on this expedition, at that time in history.
"In order to stabilize world population, it is necessary to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it." - Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, as quoted in "The Courier," a publication of the U.N. Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (U.N.E.S.C.O.)
I'm not eugenic, I'm not anything! I just hate watching the world getting overrun with people like it is now, and if you haven't noticed, industrialized countries are the largest in the world, and you think they're not causing huge imbalances?
Думаю, он был разведчиком.. Интуиция.. Его науку продвигаои не случайно
Nurtured on Jacque..in Sarasota FL..used to sail and dive so much..Loved the background music . The Rod seeking. Narration was amazing.. Jacque like an Uncle.Devastaded when his son died. Not sure he ever recovered from that.Heard a story that he and his divers heard hideous screams in deep water cave they were exploring that quickly ended his diving .
@blastforth Additionally, the Calypso also counted with an special aircraft named "Catalina", which was also used once as a guard plane during World War II, and, as it was said on the 33th chapter of "The Undersea World", ironically changed its role into a pacific one.
Awesome video and to think no dammmmmmmmmm commercial omg I’m living the dream Dr J was the best unbelievable!!!😎👍🎥
yea i used to watch this as a kid and thought it was cool but the more i watch now i'm just disgusted. this stupid frog's obsession with power over nature is lame and barbaric and again overshadows anything inovative that they might have pulled off. sooo Zissiou!
Those Orca must be stressed out and aggressive. How come their fins aren’t bent over like they are at SeaWorld?
The lady at SeaWorld told me it was normal for Orca’s fins to be bent 😂
So you think that if we weren't corrupt and greedy but we let our population run rampant, we'd be fine?
@DENISPANAMA je pense que ce regle a commence apres que ils ont mittent le video en youtube. desole, je suis americain et mon francais n'est pas le meillieur.
Hate the say it Jacques, Killer Whales often hunt and kill Great White sharks and the more then deserve the title "Killer".
Boy he knew of global warming today none of what he traveled through is in existence today all gone
DAYFLING the only place where you can catch more than a date! It should say Free STD's included
Our World like a Gigantic Body, and all of us their micro-organs...only, nothing more.
Cousteau, Sagan, Felix de la Fuente and others whose names i do not remember.
Wild America and this show were my favs back in the day!!
Thank you to all the crew of Calypso , Salute. Respect .
Notice they're smoking right next to the fuel barrels...Hardy sorts, those.
They were not only explorers, but daredevils too.
Love the music, it's so beautiful.
The guy narrating sounds like Clint Eastwood getting all tough.
awsome the French are stand alone people truly great
I recognized Rod Sterling’s voice
Rod Serling and Cousteau? God damn
The balloon didn't make too much sense when they have a chopper, other than it makes good television. The only thing missing - "Philippe and Falco prepare to launch low orbit satellite to look for safe passage through the ice pack".
If you listened to the narration, you would learn why they opted for a balloon.
No vids like this are irrelevant. Wake up
Rod Sterling narrating?
They could’ve used pyrotechnic devices to melt the ice. The cluster is wide but they only need to pave the way
A flat map of the sea, cant match 3D reality. Which is why that 'Drake Passage' couldn't be chartered. But they should have known that compact breaks would've amassed like that. Even with hydrophone signal and satellite surveillance from UCS. Quetzacoatl is real its not a myth. Whether you wanna translate that to Global Warming or Sunspot crisis or even orbital displacement. Them icebergs is breaking down and its been happening. This was made in the 1920's right?
CBS! TV Europe! TV Japan!
What's the endings song name?
Rod Serling
Where are parts 1,2 and 4?
Rod Serling narrating?
The real ice tray the gang
@kraftymomma1979 My television was heavily restricted as well, but for different reasons. We did not have cable and could only get three stations. Our neighbors would talk about TV shows as though everyone knew them well. I would have no idea what they were referring to. It is funny that now I am 50 and have cable for my renters, I still do not watch TV. I stopped watching TV in my mid 20's because it insulted my intelligence. I now only watch cooking shows and an occasional movie.
My dad hated television. We were restricted from watching TV on school nights except for holiday specials, PBS programs that he deemed important, and every bit of Jacques Cousteau that ever aired in America. I didn't grow up to be a scientist or an explorer, but I do love nature and deeply the individuals and who study and fight to preserve it. God bless the Cousteau family!
Ice caps and glaciers
@blunklaura
You trolling videos to start political arguments? I'd take Sara Palin over Barbra "I worked hard for this job" boxer any day. Boxer and Pilosi are so full of hot air they don't even need a balloon.
Professional rgn.
Missing people did.
Cousteau brought us images that most of us would never get to see. I remember when his son fell into a crevace and died. He continued the exploration until it was over. I was in my first year of college and this almost made me sick for a while.