This video shows the first step of the reconstruction of Calypso, famous ship of Captain Cousteau. The ship is towed from La Rochelle to Concarneau, in the shipyard where she will be completly rebuilt.
The life of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau was devoted to inspire people to love and protect the marine environment of our planet, for the benefit of future generations.
In 2004, the Red Sea was welcoming the Cousteau divers, 50 years after the revolutionary images taken by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle in the "Silent World."
In the wet lab of the Aurora Australis, Bertrand Richer de Forges, Crustacean biologist in New Caledonia, is speaking about the Antarctic animals caught by the beam trawl ID 297 at 560 meters deep.
13 January 2007, South-West wind of 1 Beaufort, wave height less than 0.5 m, air t° of 0°C, water t° of -1°C.
Sea is flat as a mirror in the Larsen B embayment. Shortly before midnight, the sun is slowly setting. Four Crab-eater Seals (Lobodon carcinophagus) appeared, approach Polarstern for a close inspection before vanishing as suddenly as they appeared.
Gauthier Chapelle
Jojo the grouper, first (and only?) fish to access movie star status, in "The Silent World" by Cousteau and Malle, winner of an academy award and Palme d'Or at the Cannes festival in 1956.
This video shows the first days of the polar expedition (part of the CAML-Census of Antarctic marine Life-program) aboard the Research Vessel Tangaroa toward the Antarctic continent.