The Impossible Life of Jacques Costeau

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2010

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Pioneering French marine explorer Jacques Cousteau brought marine life to cinema and television screens for the first time. Bridget Nicholls speaks to Costeau's friends, family and colleagues as they look back on the life of this difficult but inspiring man in the centennial of his birth.

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0:12.0	This year is the centenary of the birth of the explorer and
0:16.0	environmentalist Jacques Cousteau. Brigitte Nichols naturalist and Cousteau
0:20.0	fan since childhood tells the story of his improbably and
0:24.0	occasionally impossibly adventurous life.
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1:30.0	The soft French accent talking of coral reefs, white sharks,
1:34.0	diving aguinas and undersea caves, introduce people around the world to the
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