Jacques Cousteau Videos

Jacques Cousteau introduced an entire generation of TV viewers to the world beneath the waves. But he was more than just the man in the red hat. He was an explorer, an inventor, a hunter, a bigamist and television personality. We explore the life of the famous oceanographer with writer Brad Matsen, on the next Weekday.

Author: Dan Yaccarino (on JOMB) Illustrator: Dan Yaccarino Published: 2009 Knopf Books (on JOMB) ISBN: 0375855734 Chapters.ca Colour drenched, stylized illustrations, carefully selected quotes and simple, informative text open our eyes and imaginations to the creativity, curiosity and commitment of this explorer, inventor, filmmaker extraordinaire. More eye-opening biographies on JOMB: One Beetle Too Many — The Extraordinary Adventures of Charles Darwin Marco Polo Piano Starts Here: The Young Art Tatum Buffalo Music Priscilla and the Hollyhocks The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur We’d love to hear your thoughts on a favourite children’s book. Leave a voice message on our JOMB listener hotline, +1-206-350-6487.

This week on Adventure Edge Radio, we re featuring an interview with Will Steger – polar explorer, global warming educator and the first ever National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. Steger has led unsupported dog sled expeditions to the North Pole, crossed Greenland and Antarctica, and recently lead a 1,600 mile trip across Ellesmere Island with 6 young adventurers to raise awareness of climate change. Steger has become an expert voice on global warming and climate change and has testified before Congress about that very issue. Steger was awarded National Geographic Society s John Oliver La Gorce Medal for accomplishments in geographic exploration, in the sciences, and for public service to advance international understanding. Steger is in prestigious company - other award winners include Amelia Earhart, Robert Peary and Jacques Cousteau. Don t miss this great interview. Listen in and enjoy

They might be tiny, but nudibranchs can pack a poisonous punch. Learn more about these extraordinary creatures.

Coral reefs often make for spectacular diving, and shipwrecks can become vibrant habitats. Explore the area around an underwater volcano with the Ocean Adventures team.

Climate change is already affecting polar bears, walruses, belugas and arctic foxes. Find out how.

Jean-Michel Cousteau and his team sail into the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" while shooting "Voyage to Kure."

Whiskers. Flippers. Big soulful eyes. Underwater acrobatics. Check out how "common seals" of Monterey Bay are anything but "common," at least when it comes to cuteness!

In the wild, mating is anything but tender. Watch how one shark couple's attempt at mating leads to another shark's dinner.

If you're a sea star, a second stomach comes in handy if you're after a meal larger than your mouth. Don't miss one sea star ejecting its stomach outside its body in order to chow down.

Watch scenes from a night of love and death among opalescent squid in the Channel Islands. Warning: stunning underwater footage is just a click away...

Sea otters, urchins and kelp, oh my! Explore the delicate balance of life in an emerald forest.

It's hard to be a bird when your wings don't work right! Find out how the Ocean Adventures team comes to the rescue of Lanai, a fledgling albatross hatched on Kure, a remote Hawaiian island.

The Amazon is the most powerful of the world's rivers, and its rapid transformation will alter the global climate. Emptying into the great Atlantic Ocean, it flows through the world's largest tropical rainforest where evolution has gone wild, creating the greatest biodiversity of any area on the planet.

In the pink! Find out why pink dolphins of the Amazon are pink, how their sonar has evolved for conditions in the Amazon, and what they do with their ferocious teeth.

Chasing clues from their birthplace in Baja California, Mexico, to their feeding grounds in the Artic Circle, Jean-Michel Cousteau's team follows gray whales to observe, document and understand the variety of natural and man-made hurdles that these creatures must overcome in order to survive. The amazing expedition unlocks seldom-seen views of tragedy and triumph along a route nearly 12,000 miles long. Watch on July 19, 2006 and find out more about their migration at: pbs.org/oceanadventures.

Jean-Michel Cousteau uncovers the shocking story of the worldwide extermination of sharks and learns that sharks have more to fear from humans than we do from them. The precipitous decline of sharks, long maligned as man-eaters, could affect many other species in the food chain, as Cousteau's investigation reveals.

In this pionneering exploration, the Ocean Adventures team sets sail to the Northwestern Hawaiian Island archipelago, the most remote island group in the world. There, they discover diverse wildlife populations above and below the sea and investigate these species' fight against extinction and the devastating effects of pollution, mining, fishing and development.