Jacques Cousteau's Legacy Documented by Son in Memoir

Legendary underwater explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born 100 years ago this month (June 11, 1910). To celebrate Cousteau's remarkable life and legacy, National Geographic Books is publishing a memoir by his eldest son Jean-Michel, founder and president of the Ocean Futures Society. Faiza Elmasry spoke with him and has this story narrated by Deborah Block.

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In the early 1970s New York City was crime-ridden. As a young boy, my interests were in staying indoors and watching PBS, and when the 3 big Networks used to have family programming (not today's junk), Sunday evenings were special, The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau transported me from the inner-city...into the depths of the world's ocean and its amazing creatures. I would daydream about being one of the Calypso's divers...swimming with dolphins...and falling in love with a mermaid.

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Here is to Cousteau for inspiring the children that later became today's Researchers, Scientist, Engineers, Environmentalist. Seems like the world has forgotten about him. Sad. So Sad

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Amazing but sad that on such an
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Actually 16k people, maybe you got it confused with the subscriptions

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Anyone know the current status of the restoration of the Calypso. Nothing on the societies site. Nothing !!!!

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He reverted to Islam in 1977