15 Facts About Fabien Cousteau

Fabien Cousteau was born on 2 October 1967 and is an aquanaut, ocean conservationist, and documentary filmmaker.

In early 2009, Fabien Cousteau began working with local communities and children worldwide to help restore local water ecosystems.

Fabien Cousteau continues to pursue these initiatives through the Fabien Cousteau Ocean Learning Center his non-profit 501 founded in early 2016 dedicated to the restoration of the world's water bodies through active community engagement and education.

Fabien Cousteau is the grandson of oceanographic explorer Jacques Cousteau, and son of Jean-Michel Cousteau who assisted Jacques on most of his expeditions.

Fabien Cousteau was born and raised in France, although he has lived in the United States for most of his life.

At age seven, Fabien Cousteau accompanied his grandfather and father on the first of many sea trips aboard the Calypso and Alcyone, the ships that transported the explorers to their dive locations.

Fabien Cousteau officially joined the crew at age twelve; his first job was to remove barnacles from Jacques's boats.

Fabien Cousteau attended Norfolk Academy in Virginia and graduated from Boston University with a bachelor's degree in environmental economics.

In 2002, Fabien Cousteau went out on his own, launching his first expedition without family help: a dive where he filmed his interactions with bull sharks in the Bahamas.

Fabien Cousteau spent three months filming sharks for what would become his first National Geographic Explorer special, "Attacks of the Mystery Shark".

Also in 2002, Fabien Cousteau began work on a children's book called The Prince of Atlantis and founded an online conservation organization named Planet Riders.

Fabien Cousteau lay on his stomach, propped up on his elbows to operate Troy.

Fabien Cousteau said the goal of the show was to "make these special places real for viewers everywhere".

Fabien Cousteau got the idea for Mission 31 when visiting the undersea laboratory Aquarius during a fundraiser aiming to keep it operating in the wake of federal budget cuts.

Proteus is the project Fabien Cousteau is planning for a construction of a community of ocean flooring analysis stations, situated off Curacao at a depth of about 20 m in a marine-protected area.