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Jacques Cousteau's Deep Blue Planet
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
June 26, 1997| Author:
Phil McCombs
| Copyright 1997 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the great ocean explorer and underwater
filmmaker who died yesterday at the age of 87, was the prickliest of
impatient men, restless and searching, his soul full of inquiries as
tumultuous as the seas he roamed.
Could people, he wondered, live underwater like fish? Could
the oceans be harvested to feed the planet's starving populations?
Can we prevent the ice in Antarctica from melting and flooding the
Earth? Some of his ideas were on the nutty side, like t...
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