Jacques Cousteau: Rediscover the World | New Zealand, Tahiti, Cuba, & Cape Horn
Jacques Cousteau: Rediscover the World | New Zealand, Tahiti, Cuba, & Cape Horn
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Jacques Cousteau: Rediscover the World | New Zealand, Tahiti, Cuba, & Cape Horn

6.0 / 10
1986
2 seasons
40 episodes
Documentary

Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the Calypso set sail to research far-off cultures and species of aquatic fauna and flora in another of the explorer's nature series, mainly in the Pacific Ocean and in the West Indies.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Haiti: Waters of Sorrow

    23-05-198660m

    When Christopher Columbus discovered Haiti in 1492 he described a different Haiti, an island that has suffered centuries of exploitation and people who now live in the misery of ov...

  • Ep 2

    2.Cuba: Waters of Destiny

    30-05-198660m

    The Cousteau team discover in the waters around Cuba a richness that divers have not seen in any other part of the Caribbean Sea for at least twenty years. The team film the strang...

  • Ep 3

    3.Cape Horn: Waters of the Wind

    06-06-198660m

    Alcyone's debut and its first major test as a research and diving platform sharing duties with the Calypso. Alcyone and her team challenge the seas of Cape Horn, widely thought to...

  • Ep 4

    4.Sea of Cortez: Legacy of Cortez

    13-06-198660m

    Captain Cousteau and the crew of the Alcyone head northward from Cape Horn to investigate Mexico's fabled Sea of Cortez. The youngest and deepest of all the world's ocean gulfs; th...

  • Ep 5

    5.Marquesas islands: Mountains from the Sea

    20-06-198660m

    The Cousteau team on board the Calyspo set sail for the South Pasific and the Marquseas Islands. Once hearty and independent, the people suffered death and destruction under the Sp...

  • Ep 6

    6.Channel Islands I: Waters of Contention

    27-06-198660m

    The Channel Islands lie a few hours from the coast of California. Islands that have remained almost unchanged from prehistoric times due to the rocky coastlines and the violent sea...

  • Ep 7

    7.Channel Islands II: Days of Future Past

    04-07-198660m

    Over the centuries the riches of the Channel Islands have drawn fishermen and seal hunters. However, man the exploror and hunter is becoming more of man the protector. The natural...

  • Ep 8

    8.New Zealand I: The Rose and the Dragon

    11-07-198660m

    Captain Cousteau and his team rediscover New Zealand. The Calypso travels around its coastline whilst a land team crosses more than 42,000 kilometres of countyside. New Zealand ext...

  • Ep 9

    9.New Zealand II: The Heron of the Single Flight

    18-07-198660m

    Captain Cousteau recognizes and discusses the problem of fishing around the coast of New Zealand. The Calypso divers meet the endangered elephant fish and film families of sea-lion...

  • Ep 10

    10.New Zealand III: The Surrounding Sea

    25-07-198660m

    New Zealand, an island of three climates, sub-Antartic, temperate and sub-tropical. An island of fire, ice and earthquake. Captain Cousteau and team journey to New Zealnd's further...

  • Ep 11

    11.Tahiti: Fire Waters

    01-08-198660m

    Tahiti, once a South Pacific paradise, has gradually fallen prey to tourism, technology, and most frightening of all, the nuclear weapon. Whilst exploring the famed underwater MacD...

  • Ep 12

    12.Cocos island: Sharks of Treasure Island

    08-08-198660m
  • Ep 13

    13.Bering Sea: Twilight of the Alaskan Hunter

    15-08-198660m
  • Ep 14

    14.New Zealand: The Smoldering Sea

    22-08-198660m
  • Ep 15

    15.Australia: The Last Barrier

    29-08-198660m
  • Ep 16

    16.Borneo: The Ghost of the Sea Turtle

    05-09-198660m
  • Ep 17

    17.Papua New Guinea: Into the Time Machine

    12-09-198660m
  • Ep 18

    18.Papua New Guinea: River of Crocodile Men

    19-09-198660m
  • Ep 19

    19.Papua New Guinea: Center of Fire

    26-09-198660m
  • Ep 20

    20.Thailand: Convicts of the Sea

    03-10-198660m
  • Ep 21

    21.Borneo: Forests without Land

    10-10-198660m
  • Ep 22

    22.Andaman: Invisible Islands

    17-10-198660m

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