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About Ocean Adventures
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. Find out when Ocean Adventures airs on your local station. Sea Ghosts (Beluga Whales) Premieres on April 8, 2009  The beluga whale is an evolutionary surprise -- a warm-blooded mammal in a numbingly cold sea. Resembling curious ghosts, these intelligent mammals use one of the most complex sonars of any animal. Belugas inhabiting Cook Inlet, close to Anchorage, Alaska, were added to the endangered species list in October 2008. Their world is now ground zero for climate change, but what threatens them is not confined to the Arctic, it's global. What lies ahead for the beluga could become prophesy for many species everywhere, including our own.
Call of the Killer Whale Premieres on April 22, 2009  In this two-part episode, the Ocean Adventures team explores our counterparts in the sea -- the orca, ruler of the ocean. Orcas, also called killer whales, are the most widely distributed marine mammal in the world, but number fewer than 100,000 worldwide. Jean-Michel Cousteau and his team travel to New Zealand and the Pacific Northwest and discover that people and orcas share surprising similarities, even similar needs, and they relate their findings to the captivity and release of Keiko, from Free Willy fame, who captured the world's imagination and whose survival depended on Cousteau's pioneering efforts to reintroduce Keiko into the wild.
Return to the Amazon Originally broadcast on April 2 and 9, 2008  In this two-part episode, the Ocean Adventures team explores
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Voyage to Kure Originally broadcast on April 5 and April 12, 2006  In this pioneering exploration, the Cousteau 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. Read more and watch a preview
Sharks at Risk Originally broadcast on July 12, 2006  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. Read more and watch a preview
The Gray Whale Obstacle Course Originally broadcast on July 19, 2006  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. Read more and watch a preview
America's Underwater Treasures Originally broadcast on September 20 and 27, 2006  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. Read more and watch a preview
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