In “Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Secret Ocean,” currently playing at IMAX theatres across Canada, Cousteau gets up close with a broad diversity of ocean creatures—many of them captured on film for the first time.
Jean-Michel is the son of the great Jacques Cousteau, the renowned undersea explorer who introduced marine conservation to the world through his books, films, and TV documentaries and series.
In educating the world about the delicate balance of the oceans and their plant and animal inhabitants, the elder Cousteau wanted people to know the value of the oceans so they would look after them. “People protect what they love,” he said.
Jean-Michel took that sentiment to heart, and while working with his father at an early age, began studying and photographing underwater ecosystems. Now, he also makes films and travels internationally talking about the need to clean up the world’s oceans.
“How can people protect what they don’t understand?” he asked in a 2010 TED Talk. To this end, he continues his father’s scientific communication approach to help educate people of all ages about ocean life.
