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Duolingo French Podcast

L’aquanaute (The Aquanaut)

Duolingo French Podcast

Duolingo

Society & Culture, Education

4.55.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Fabien Cousteau, grandson of legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, was just a boy when he fell in love with a creature that most other people fear: sharks. But no one could have predicted that years later, Fabien would do the unthinkableand decide to live among them.

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0:00.0

Fabien Cousteau was barely six the first time he crossed paths with a live shark.

0:07.2

He was with his family and they were diving.

0:09.3

He plunged off the coast of California.

0:12.4

And yes, he is related to the legendary French ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau.

0:18.6

Fabien is Jacques Cousteau's grandson.

0:22.0

He plunged into deep waters.

0:25.7

My father showed me the different fish.

0:29.1

I saw him.

0:32.1

He was a small, leopards,

0:35.2

with black spots.

0:38.5

For me, he was so beautiful.

0:42.6

For Fabien, this was the start of a lifelong fascination with sharks,

0:47.9

les requins.

0:49.4

When I plunged with the requins, I saw very beautiful and calm creatures.

0:56.1

These requins were very different from the sensationalist images in films

1:02.0

or from the stories of attacks in the days.

1:05.5

I wanted to change this negative image.

1:09.3

Fabien wanted the public to see sharks the way he saw them.

1:13.6

He wanted people to understand that they aren't aggressive killing machines drawn to human blood.

1:19.6

But before he could share his love of sharks with the wider world,

1:23.2

he knew he needed to understand them better himself.

1:26.5

And what better way to understand a creature than to become it.

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