He was an oceanographer and explorer but held no scientific degree. He was an environmentalist whose voyages were nevertheless sometimes funded by oil companies seeking drilling sites. He was a ...

LITTLE ROCK — The final episode of The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey begins not in the sea but in the sky. Sideways, we soar though the clouds, glimpsing a solitary island below, far into the Pacific. As ...

v.1. Oasis in space.--v.2. The act of life.--v.3. Quest for food.--v.4. Window in the sea.--v.5. The art of motion.--v.6. Attack and defense.--v.7. Invisible messages ...

Back in the early days of the broadcast networks, natural history shows were a part of the programming diet: NBC ran “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom” for much of the 1960s, and around that time ABC ...

In his 87 years, Jacques Cousteau worked as an explorer, naval officer, conservationist, scientist, author, and filmmaker. He shot dozens of films about the Earth's oceans and their dazzling wildlife, ...

In most respects, the Marine Species Report Card, issued recently by Long Beach’s Aquarium of the Pacific, is nothing like the “Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau.” Most obviously, the report card is ...