Jean-Michel Cousteau was born on 6 May 1938 and is a French oceanographic explorer, environmentalist, educator and film producer.
10 Facts About Jean-Michel Cousteau
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Jean-Michel Cousteau is the son of Jacques-Yves Jean-Michel Cousteau and Simone Melchior, who were business partners.
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Jean-Michel Cousteau first dived with an aqua-lung in 1945 when he was seven years old.
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Jean-Michel Cousteau then founded the Ocean Futures Society in 1999, a marine conservation and education organization.
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Jean-Michel Cousteau advocates for a world free of nuclear weapons, and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.
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Jean-Michel Cousteau is working on a documentary highlighting the epic and disastrous 2010 Gulf Oil Spill in which 11 workers were killed during an explosion of deepwater rig 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana, United States.
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Jean-Michel Cousteau appears in the 2003 IMAX documentary film Coral Reef Adventure.
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Jean-Michel Cousteau appeared on a documentary-type special feature, Case of the Sponge "Bob", on the DVD version of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in which he and Stephen Hillenburg talk about all of the real-life counterparts to the sea creatures seen in the cartoon series and movie.
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In Disney's DVD release of Finding Nemo, Jean-Michel Cousteau makes an appearance interacting with the characters from the film, Marlin, Nemo and Dory, and touting the need for better pollution control, showing videos of polluted coral reefs.
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Jean-Michel Cousteau made a new documentary series Ocean Adventures released in 2006.