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- The French sea explorer and documentary-maker Jacques Cousteau, shown in this 1975 photo, died Wednesday morning June 25, 1997. He was 87. The underwater adventurer, filmmaker, author, environmentalist and scuba pioneer who opened the mysterious world beneath the seas to millions of landlocked readers and viewers had reportedly been ill for months. (AP Photo)
- EXCLUSIVE: National Geographic has set its next documentary, which will focus on famed ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau. Two-time Oscar-nominated and two-time Emmy-winning director Liz Garbus (The Farm, Angola USA, What Happened, Miss Simone?) will direct and produce, with Oscar winner Dan Cogan (Icarus) as producer. Oscar winner Evan Hayes (Free Solo) will also produce under […]
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau Oceanographer, Environmentalist 1975. (AP Photo)
- The French sea explorer and documentary-maker Jacques Cousteau, shown in this undated photo, died Wednesday morning June 25, 1997 at his Paris home. He was 87. The underwater adventurer, filmmaker, author, environmentalist and scuba pioneer who opened the mysterious world beneath the seas to millions of landlocked readers and viewers had reportedly been ill for months. (AP Photo/The Cousteau Society)
- The French sea explorer and documentary-maker Jacques Cousteau, shown off the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia in this undated photo, died Wednesday morning June 25, 1997 at his Paris home. He was 87. The underwater adventurer, filmmaker, author, environmentalist and scuba pioneer who opened the mysterious world beneath the seas to millions of landlocked readers and viewers had reportedly been ill for months. (AP Photo/The Cousteau Society)
- Actor Ted Danson, a founder and board member of Oceana, an ocean advocacy group, left, and Philippe Cousteau, grandson of legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, are seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009, prior to testifying before the House Natural Resources Committee hearing on offshore drilling. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)
- Cover of Jacques Cousteau's autobiography "The Man, the octopus and the orchid", written with Susan Schiefelbein, which will be on sale on July 1, 1997. The French undersea explorer, documentary-maker, author and environmentalist who opened the mysterious world beneath the seas to millions of landlocked readers and viewers died Wednesday June 25, 1997 at his home in Paris. He was 87. (AP Photo)
- A boy sits on the dock of the Marseille port, southern France, looking at Jacques Cousteau's famous boat the Calypso, Thursday June 26, 1997. The Calypso has been moored in Marseille since 1986, following her sinking in Singapore when she was hit by a barge. Cousteau, the French undersea explorer, documentary-maker, author and environmentalist who opened the mysterious world beneath the seas to millions of landlocked readers and viewers, died Wednesday in Paris. He was 87. (AP PHOTO/Florian Launette)
- File - Cables lift French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau's famed ship the Calypso at a Singapore shipyard in this Thursday, Jan. 25, 1996 file photo after the research ship tipped over and sank Jan. 8 after being hit by a barge on Singapore's west coast. The widow of legendary marine explorer Jacques Cousteau said Tuesday, June 8, 2010 she is trying to relaunch the commandant's iconic ship the Calypso _ sunk, badly damaged and now in rehab _ in time to mark the centennial of his birth. (AP Photo / Mike Fiala, file)
- Jacques Cousteau drives home a point during a news conference at the United Nations on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 1992. The explorer and conservationist urged adoption of his Bill of Rights for Future Generations by the U.N., General Assembly. His plan puts into writing obligations for care of the planet for the future. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
- The French sea explorer and documentary-maker Jacques Cousteau died Wednesday morning June 25, 1997. He was 87. The underwater adventurer, filmmaker, author, environmentalist and scuba pioneer who opened the mysterious world beneath the seas to millions of landlocked readers and viewers had reportedly been ill for months. Photo taken in 1974 as Cousteau started to seach for the legendary city of Atlantis. (AP Photo)
- United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, right, meets with legendary Sea explorer Captain Jacques Cousteau at the U.N. on Tuesday, June 21, 1994. (AP Photo/David Karp)
- Marine explorer Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau is seen in Miami, July 14, 1986. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
- Jacques Cousteau, famed undersea explorer, says nuclear power is a disaster waiting to happen. Cousteau during news conference in New York Feb. 17, 1977, says the answer to the world’s energy problems is the sun shining on the oceans. (AP Photo/Dave Pickoff)
- French explorer Jacques Cousteau will concentrate a $2 million search for the legendary city of Atlantis around the Island of Thira, also known as Santorini shown Nov. 8, 1975. (AP Photo)
- French sea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau shows a drawing of the Pre-Continental 3, a 50- ton sphere in which five oceanographers will live at 55 meters under the sea for 15 days, April 8, 1964. (AP Photo/Rene Maestri)
- Commander Jacques-Yves Cousteau's bathysphere is prepared for immersion during trials in Villefranche Harbor on the French Riviera, Oct. 22, 1960. The famed undersea explorer will soon undertake a thorough probe in an undersea ravine said to be more than a mile deep near Villefranche. The commander has already discovered unusual fauna in the ravine. (AP Photo)
- Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco opened the exhibition "Man Beneath the Sea" at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, April 14, 1962. They were received by Commander Cousteau, director of the museum. Cousteau shows the prince and princess the Galcazzi Italian underwater equipment. (AP Photo/Rene Maestri)