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Post by Ace on Jun 28, 2006 23:16:31 GMT -5
Thread Started on Jul 13, 2005, 9:31pm
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PBS: Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Adventures
New programs announced during PBS' portion of the summer Television Critics Assn. press tour in Beverly Hills included:
"Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Adventures," six new hourlong programs from the son of the late Jacques Cousteau. Following the underwater trail blazed by his father 30 years ago, the new programs focus on exploration and conservation. Pierce Brosnan will narrate.
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Post by Ace on Jun 28, 2006 23:17:05 GMT -5
« Reply #1 on Jul 13, 2005, 10:56pm »
Article on the development of the series
Cousteau’s son returns with high-def adventures below
Originally published in Current, Nov. 3, 2003
By Steve Behrens
The research ship Calypso sank seven years ago and its captain, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, died a year later, but his eldest son is planning to bring Cousteau-style daring scuba-do back to television.
Five films in a new series, Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Adventures, will be ready for broadcast sometime in 2005, says Danny McGuire, the project’s executive producer at KQED, San Francisco. The station is co-producing the series with Ocean Futures Society, a nonprofit founded in 1999 by the son.
“The whole effort is to bring the Cousteau legacy back to public TV,” says McGuire.
The series will hammer home the gospel that overfishing, pollution and other human scourges of the oceans are threatening those vast sources of food, oxygen and biodiversity. “We can’t protect what we don’t understand” is the program’s working motto.
Though Ocean Futures Society is sharing the fundraising tasks and editorial control with KQED, the series will reflect opposing views as well as the society’s stance on issues, McGuire says. A 10-member advisory committee of scientists and educators, which earlier advised on KQED’s Empty Oceans, Empty Nets, will serve as watchdogs for the series by reviewing scripts and rough cuts, he adds.
Ocean Adventures will take a more journalistic approach than the earlier Cousteau series, mining newer research on ecosystems and sustainability, but also delivering a quotient of adventure, says McGuire.
A major theme will be the resilience of nature, says Pam Stacey, a longtime Cousteau writer who is publications director at Ocean Futures Society. “It has always been part of the Cousteau approach,” she says, to look for solutions “before deadening everybody with the problems.”
One of the strengths of the Cousteaus has been their ability to show the connections between various global developments and the impact they can have on the ocean environment, Stacey says. For instance, the “Sharks: At Risk” episode will link the declining shark population to the growing affluence of Asians who can afford the highly prized shark’s fin soup.
The series will benefit from new technology—the high-definition video the divers use to tape underwater, the audio gear that lets them narrate as they swim, and the rebreathing devices that allow for longer and deeper dives.
Though Jean-Michel Cousteau will appear in the films, he probably will not be the host or narrator, McGuire says.
Cousteau brought the project to KQED in February, seeking aid for production of “Voyage to Kure,” an episode on an Ocean Futures Society expedition to the wild and remote northwestern end of the Hawaiian Archipelago, which coincided with the sailing of a reproduction Polynesian voyaging canoe to the island. Despite the area’s remoteness, McGuire says, tons of plastic and other waste end up on its beaches.
Besides “Voyage to Kure” and “Sharks: At Risk,” the other first-season episodes include the two-hour “America’s Undersea Adventures,” shot in the country’s 13 offshore national parks, from Lake Huron to the Gulf; “The Gray Whale Obstacle Course,” which will look at the perilous migratory path of Pacific whales; and “Ghost Ships of the Truk Lagoon,” with film of massive sunken relics of war.
The wiry, wool-capped Jacques Cousteau, who co-invented the aqualung and underwater cameras, introduced the public to the ocean deep starting with the Oscar-winning doc The Silent World in 1955. He came to TV with The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, co-produced with David Wolper, which aired on ABC in the 1960s and ‘70s. In 1977 he worked with KCET in Los Angeles on the public TV series Cousteau Odyssey, and later with Turner Broadcasting on Cousteau’s Rediscovery of the World.
Jean-Michel Cousteau, who trained as an architect, took a greater role at the Cousteau Society after the death of his younger brother Philippe in 1979. He shared producer roles with his father on the Turner series, according to Charles Vinick, executive v.p. of Ocean Futures Society and a former Cousteau Society executive. But the father broke publicly with his son in 1995, filing lawsuits demanding that Jean-Michel clarify that a scuba-diving resort on Fiji was not related to the father’s Cousteau Society. The son designed the vacation spot, now called Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Fiji Island Resort, as a model for ecotourism. (It offers a honeymoon package for $6,760 per couple.)
Other heirs also lay claim to the Cousteau name. Jacques Cousteau’s second wife controls the Cousteau Society, while Philippe’s widow and children started the Philippe Cousteau Foundation.
Jean-Michel Cousteau, meanwhile, is president of the Ocean Futures Society, which grew out of Free Willy-Keiko Foundation. The foundation helped free the real-life orca whale, Keiko, that starred in the 1993 movie Free Willy, according to Stacey. Though Jean-Michel Cousteau and others helped get Keiko got out of the Mexico City aquarium where he was a performer, the whale has not had the happy reunion with nature that the movie implied. After years of efforts to return him to the wild, according to Stacey, Keiko is still partially dependent on humans.
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Post by Ace on Jun 28, 2006 23:17:29 GMT -5
« Reply #2 on Jul 13, 2005, 10:57pm »
This article from May seems to point to a Spring 2006 TV showing
Midland, MI - May 12, 2005
In its ongoing commitment to protect Earth's natural resources, Dow today announced an alliance with Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society (OFS) to explore creative solutions to environmental challenges through technology and education.
A major component of the alliance is a new high-definition television series entitled Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Adventures, which will renew the Cousteau tradition of infusing thrilling underwater adventure with ecology and exploration. The series, corporately underwritten by Dow and independently produced by OFS and KQED Public Broadcasting, will air on PBS in the spring of 2006.
"We truly appreciate Dow's support in helping us educate the global public about the beauty and importance of our oceans," said Cousteau, president and chairman of OFS and son of the late Jacques Cousteau, the pioneering explorer of the world's oceans. "The health of our oceans is directly connected to the survival of all life on Earth, and we must work together across communities, governments and industries to develop sustainable solutions."
The relationship between Dow and OFS combines Jean-Michel Cousteau's intimate knowledge of the ocean and renowned leadership in conservation, research and education with Dow's leadership in sustainable development, in which it constantly applies science and technology to improve the quality of life around the world - through, for example, innovative products that improve water quality, fuel efficiency and food and water delivery.
"We're pleased to support Cousteau's far-reaching research and education efforts and to be a part of making the world a better place for future generations," said Andrew Liveris, Dow's President and Chief Executive Officer. "Increasing our knowledge of the 'inner space' of the world's vast oceans is a huge challenge, and we look forward to supporting the Ocean Futures Society and helping to remind people that science is what it always has been: a vehicle for solving humanity's most vexing problems."
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Post by Ace on Jun 28, 2006 23:18:29 GMT -5
Reply #3 on Jul 15, 2005, 6:03pm
PBS News
"JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU'S OCEAN ADVENTURES" COMES TO PBS
A New Chapter in the Cousteau Legacy Sets Sail in Spring 2006
"We can't protect what we don't understand."
-Jean-Michel Cousteau
A generation ago, Jacques-Yves Cousteau revealed the oceans' mysteries to millions of landlocked PBS television viewers and inspired a groundswell of public awareness of the unique problems faced by the world's marine environments. Now, 30 years later, KQED Public Broadcasting and Ocean Futures Society, headed by Jacques' son Jean-Michel, will bring the Cousteau legacy back to PBS with JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU'S OCEAN ADVENTURES, a six-part HDTV series airing this spring.
Using state-of-the-art technology, Peabody and Emmy Award-winning Jean-Michel Cousteau and his acclaimed diving teams, accompanied by marine scientists and ecologists, will explore a thrilling array of natural phenomena, investigate little-known territories and eco-systems hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, and come face-to-face with the friendly and ferocious inhabitants of the deep.
"We know more about the 'dead seas' of Mars than our own ocean," said Cousteau. "In this series, we are charting a course of human adventure and discovery of our real-life support system - our planet's ocean."
"PBS' commitment to quality marine science and ecology programming was inspired by the prescient explorations of Jacques Cousteau," said John Wilson, Sr. Vice President, PBS Programming. "Now our viewers will be able to take the next great journey into this realm with his son, Jean-Michael, and this unprecedented series."
Consistent with the Cousteau hallmarks of exploration and conservation, OCEAN ADVENTURES will share with television viewers the largely inaccessible, dangerous and spectacular locales across the globe. Through Jean-Michel's observations, the series will illuminate the great need for better understanding and sustainable management of the oceans' rich natural treasures.
The six one-hour programs included in the OCEAN ADVENTURES series are:
* "Voyage to Kure" (Part I and Part II)--The Cousteau team sets sail on the Northwest Hawaiian Archipelago. There, they discover diverse wildlife populations above and below the sea, and investigate these species' fight against extinction and the devastating effects of pollution, mining, fishing and development on the most remote island group in the world.
* "The Gray Whale Obstacle Course"-- The Cousteau team follows gray whales, unchanged for 600,000 years and under constant threat of extinction, from the nursery lagoons of Baja California north to frigid feeding grounds in the Bering Sea - through the longest and most polluted migration routes of any whale species.
* "Sharks: At Risk"--Long feared as objects of terror, sharks are gaining a new reputation due to unprecedented observation - yet their numbers are quickly dwindling. To better understand shark behavior and the impact their reputation has had on their survival, the Cousteau team observes gray sharks in French Polynesia and great white sharks in South Africa - unprotected by a shark cage.
* "America's Underwater Treasures" (Part I and Part II)--This two-part installment will take viewers to the rarely visited underwater parks that constitute the National Marine Sanctuary System - a diverse and uniquely American group of ecosystems that promise to inspire an ethic of ocean preservation that will translate far beyond any national borders.
Explorer, environmentalist, educator and film producer - for more than four decades Jean-Michel Cousteau has searched the world to document the pristine and perilous places of the oceans. Son of renowned ocean pioneer Jacques Cousteau, Jean-Michel grew up aboard the Calypso and Alcyone. As the founder and president of Ocean Futures Society, he travels the globe, meeting with world leaders, businesses, educators and children as a "voice for the ocean" and our planet's most significant ambassador of the water environment.
JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU'S OCEAN ADVENTURES is produced by KQED Public Broadcasting and Ocean Futures Society. The exclusive corporate sponsor is Dow.
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Post by Ace on Jun 28, 2006 23:31:21 GMT -5
PBS Org: Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Adventures -- flash page has images, video, screen saves, links, notes, schedules etc Vogage to KureTwo parter- Aired April 5 & 12 "We are doing justice to the ocean. A lot has to be done, and it's going to take a lot of work. Perhaps with this expedition we can highlight to the world that it's not too late, the fact that it is time to recognize that our life support system has problems and thus, so do we." - Jean-Michel Cousteau at the farewell ceremony launching the Kure voyage Sharks At Risk
Airs Wednesday, July 12 at 8pm(check local listings) "Now, more than ever, two myths must be laid to rest. One, sharks are not mindless predators nor sinister man-eaters, and two, the oceans are not full of sharks." - Jean-Michel Cousteau The Gray Whale Obstacle CourseAirs Wednesday, July 19 at 8pm(check local listings) Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the gray whale has made an amazing comeback in the last 80 years. But in 1999 and 2000, these unique creatures, which live along the West Coast of North America, began to mysteriously disappear by the thousands. Their population dropped by one-third. America's Underwater Treasures About: America's Underwater Treasures The Cousteaus begin a dive Yosemite. Yellowstone. The Smoky Mountains. The Everglades. The Grand Canyon. Everyone knows these magical places are the gems of America's national parks, and they have never been more popular with Americans and international tourists alike. But ask those same people about Flower Garden Banks, Fagatelle Bay, Gray's Reef, Thunder Bay or the Gulf of the Farallones and you're likely to get a blank stare. These are just a few of the 13 national marine sanctuaries in the United States. Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures brings these exquisitely beautiful locales to viewers in America's Underwater Treasures, coming to PBS in the fall of 2006.
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Post by Ace on Jul 10, 2006 0:30:08 GMT -5
Bloomberg: Shark Soup Is Bad Recipe for Survival of Species
By: Dave Shiflett
July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Sharks have been swimming the seas for about 400 million years. These magnificent creatures may not be around much longer, though, if human beings keep mushing them into soup.
In ``Sharks at Risk,'' a thoughtful PBS special airing July 12 at 8 p.m. New York time, narrator Pierce Brosnan and oceanographer Jean-Michel Cousteau warn us that sharks are disappearing at an alarming rate.
With his longish gray hair and beard and blissful nature, Cousteau (son of Jacques) could pass for a philosophy professor. Though not alarmist, he is passionate about sharks, to the point of putting himself at the mercy of a great white.
That incredible scene comes late in this hourlong show, which takes us to some of the most beautiful aqua settings in the world. In French Polynesia, where the journey begins, the blazing blue water is home to an astonishing array of species, including silvertip sharks whose fins appear to have been dipped in neon.
Michelangelo would have difficulty sculpting such perfect beings, though from time to time one spots unwelcome garnishes, such as stainless-steel fishing hooks. Those are among the lucky ones.
Unfortunately for sharks, there's a massive Asian market for a soup featuring their fins, which can fetch $200 per pound. The harvest involves cruelty of nearly supernatural proportions: after their dorsal fins are sliced off, the fish are tossed back into the sea. Viewers should have no difficulty choosing the right team to root for after watching this footage.
Nature's Balance
Cousteau says some 11,000 sharks are killed every hour of the day -- either for food, through wasteful fishing practices or to remove a ``threat.'' As a result, the population of hammerheads and great whites has declined 80 percent over the past few decades, the program says. And because sharks cull weak and unfit marine life, their declining numbers pose a threat to the oceanic balance that benefits humans.
The photography is stunning. Cousteau's cameras catch a storm of plankton glittering against the night sea. Elsewhere a sailfish glides by, accompanied by an impressive statistic: The species can reach speeds of 70 miles per hour. Other beauties include clouds of baitfish, a barracuda tornado and a blonde or two: Cousteau is, after all, a Frenchman.
Cousteau's view of nature is pleasingly realistic. He's awed by its complexity and beauty, but doesn't shy away from showing its brutal side.
`Shark Mistakes'
During a mating session between gray sharks, a crazed male kills his love object. Then along comes a huge hammerhead shark - - some reach 20 feet, Cousteau says -- to pick up the corpse and gobble it down. Sex-death-dinner: All that's missing here is a smoke.
``Shark attacks are shark mistakes,'' we are told, and to prove the point with maximum drama Cousteau goes calling on a great white off the South African coast. Shortly after he and a few friends dive in, they're confronted by a 15-footer, which looks like it just swam out of prehistory.
Cousteau rubs the shark's fins and a few passes later actually takes hold of the dorsal and hitches a ride. He advises us not to try this on our own, but he's already made his point: These are not senseless killers. They're just lonely.
What's more, Cousteau adds, the fins in that much desired soup have 42 percent more mercury than humans should eat, making those shark encounters more deadly than his tango with the great white.
In the end, Cousteau says, nature will somehow survive, though perhaps humans won't. One senses there's nothing fishy about that prediction.
(Dave Shiflett is a critic for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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Post by Ace on Jul 12, 2006 22:35:59 GMT -5
Did anyone else watch Sharks at Risk yet? I thought it was a much better presented episode than the first two. I think having a more specific subject to focus on instead of the more sprawling nature of Voyage to Kure helped make for a better episode. There was more time spent under water and seeing the sharks and otherlife under the sea and less focus on the crew. They were still able to show the impact of man -- positive and negative but the focus was on the fish and giving me information I hadn't hard before. And the visuals were glorious. Besides less talking by the crew means more narration by Pierce.  Seriously, I'm looking forward to the episode on Whales much more now after see what they did with Sharks. |
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Post by Ace on Sept 20, 2006 9:07:45 GMT -5
This begins airing this week tonight on PBS (the 5th of 6 parts in this series)
America's Underwater Treasures
The Cousteaus begin a dive
Yosemite. Yellowstone. The Smoky Mountains. The Everglades. The Grand Canyon. Everyone knows these magical places are the gems of America's national parks, and they have never been more popular with Americans and international tourists alike. But ask those same people about Flower Garden Banks, Fagatelle Bay, Gray's Reef, Thunder Bay or the Gulf of the Farallones and you're likely to get a blank stare. These are just a few of the 13 national marine sanctuaries in the United States. Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures brings these exquisitely beautiful locales to viewers in America's
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Post by Ace on Sept 22, 2006 18:43:41 GMT -5
The New Mexican: Ocean’s oneCraig Smith September 22, 2006 Céline Cousteau swims with whales, dallies with dolphins, takes nature photographs, and works on environmental documentaries wherever there’s water. In between snorkeling and sailing, she comes back to Santa Fe for a dose of arid-plateau air, landscapes, and sunsets. She first came here in 1996 and also has lived in Italy, France, and Costa Rica; but since 2003, Santa Fe is her heart’s home. “I enjoy the contrast of water versus desert,” the 33-year-old Cousteau said recently over tea at a local cafe. “I’m always traveling for work and for personal trips. I get my dose of the ocean, of water; then when I’m not doing that I come back here and get the beautiful desert. I love the mountains. “What first brought me to New Mexico in 1996 was a friend who raved about the rock climbing and the environment. That same friend, turned relationship, brought me back in 2003. Land of enchantment, enchanted.” Céline’s love of water is no surprise, given her antecedents. Her grandfather Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997) was the first man to bring the undersea realm’s drama, color, and mystery to general public attention. His mid-20th-century films and books, including The Silent World and The Living Sea, and the TV series The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, molded an entire generation’s oceanic interests, and his ship Calypso achieved legendary status. Céline’s father, Jean-Michel, originally an architect, began working with his father in 1979. Today he oversees the Ocean Futures Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to environmental preservation and documentation, with offices in France, Italy, and the United States. Céline is the international project coordinator. Her oceanographer brother, Fabien, and several cousins are also involved in what she calls the family business. “There’s an automatic belief that since I was born into this family I was born with gills, the ability to sail, the ability to do dives,” Cousteau said with a merry smile. “My ability to dive has been facilitated by being in this family and it being natural [for us] to be underwater. But it’s a learning process.” She first dove with her grandfather when she was around 9, and it meant learning fast. “There was no instruction. It was, ‘Here are your tanks; here is your mask; breathe out of your mouth.’ And we went out and swam and played with sea urchins. “I swim much better underwater than on top, anyway,” she admitted. “I have ever since my brother would take me and throw me in the middle of the pool when I was little!” When we spoke, Cousteau was preparing for final production work on the two-part PBS documentary her father’s team had been filming for some time: America’s Underwater Treasures, set to air Thursday, Sept. 28, and Saturday, Sept. 30, on KNME-TV Channel 5 in New Mexico. An exploration of the country’s national marine sanctuaries, the two programs make up the fourth installment in the series Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures, produced by OFS and KQED-TV Channel 9, a public-television station in San Francisco. The first three shows were Voyage to Kure, a Pierce Brosnan-narrated exploration of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands (a 1,200-mile chain of islands and atolls); Sharks: At Risk, filmed both in French Polynesian and South African waters; and The Gray Whale Obstacle Course, which followed the whales north from their Baja California calving grounds to their feeding grounds in the Bering Sea. Céline and Fabien first began working together in 2003, she said, and joined their father last year for the PBS series. Fabien’s own shark documentary, Mind of a Demon, includes segments he filmed in “Troy,”a minisubmarine built to mimic a great white shark. “It takes a lot of time and preparation to get a documentary together,” Cousteau stressed. “Nature does its own things. It really teaches you to be patient, to be observant, to come back day after day to film your subject. It’s amazing how many hours you shoot, then it gets condensed to five minutes, seven minutes. “The end product you see looks smooth and easy, but that is the brilliant work of the cameramen and editor — maybe when you were looking at one piece of coral your fin was in the way or the current swept you off. Diving as a subject, you have to become so much more aware of your presence in that space and the other person you’re swimming with. It’s like a ballet.” Cousteau was born in Los Angeles, where her father was designing the exhibition museum for the docked ocean liner Queen Mary. Her mother had been a staff photographer with Jacques Cousteau’s team for 14 years. The family lived in California several years, then moved back to France, and then to the East Coast. “I’ve never lived anywhere more than five years,” Cousteau said. She attended the United Nations International School in New York and holds a master’s degree from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vt. Cousteau cited humpback whale encounters in Hawaii as among her most treasured memories. “It’s a unique experience to be able to swim with humpbacks. Since we have a scientist with us and are filming, we can get very close access. Otherwise, there are laws and restrictions. We can get in the Zodiac [boat] and go right there and jump in. We’re snorkeling with them, and so we’re doing free diving.” But cameramen who must stay underwater for long periods use a special system that removes carbon dioxide from the air and reinserts oxygen, without the trademark scuba-diver bubbles. “Bubbles are a big deal underwater,” Cousteau said. “It’s a form of aggression in some animals. Whales don’t like bubbles!” Hence the need to give the camera operators a way to breathe that would not worry the whales. “I could have been in the water for hours with animals like that — so massive, but so quiet and serene. But with one little lazy flip of their tail, they can be far away from you. I remember diving down probably 30 feet. There was a mother with her calf there. The baby has to come up more often to breathe [than an adult], and the mother helps with that. “She knows you’re there. If you get too close, she lets you know it: she just moves away from you.” Cousteau said that when another expedition diver got too close as mother and calf surfaced, “the mother just took her huge fin and swept it toward the diver, then very deftly just slipped it over the diver like this” — she gently moved her arm through the air — “and kept going.” Serene though it may be, whale diving isn’t quiet. “The sound whales make, you feel the reverberation. Humpback whales can go on for hours. We had one cameraman come up feeling actually ill after filming them for two hours because of all the reverberation around him.” She added, “The biggest danger to people doing around-the-world sailing is not a storm. It’s running into a whale if they come up to breathe and you hit them.” Cousteau had another memorable experience with spinner dolphins, known for their spiraling, spinning acrobatics on and above the water. “They’re so fast! And they’re a lot of fun to hear. They’re communicating all the time. The cameraman and myself, on snorkel, were dropped in front of the pod. The dolphins all circled around us a couple of times, just checking us out. ‘What are these funny animals? They can’t swim; they can’t do spirals.’ Then they left, zip.” Cousteau is fluent in English, French, and Spanish and is learning Portuguese in preparation for her group’s next documentary trip. “We’re working on another series for PBS and KQED over two years — two hourlong programs on the Amazon. We’re going for six or eight weeks this fall for the dry season, then we’ll go back in the rainy season. We’re also doing a show on the Mississippi River, following its course from the beginning to the Gulf of Mexico, and one on beluga whales, narwhals, and orcas. “My grandfather started this kind of exploration. Now there’s lot of people working on this. Everybody has validity in it; there’s beautiful work being done. It’s wonderful to be part of that world — both the visual message and hopefully the environmental message. People really respond to visuals, either photographs or film.” Naysayers might grumble that documentaries, no matter how beautiful, can’t affect public environmental policy. Cousteau begs to differ and cited a special White House screening of Voyage to Kure her father gave in March for the president, Laura Bush, and other dignitaries. “It was after viewing that documentary that the president stood up and said, ‘We have to do something about this,’ and went on to declare Kure a national monument. The film was only part of the whole process of it; it wasn’t the main reason for the designation, but it really helped.” America’s Underwater Treasures airs locally on KNME at 8 p.m. (Part 1) and 9 p.m. (Part 2) Thursday, Sept. 28. It repeats at 7 and 8 p.m. Saturday,Sept. 30. For more information, visit www.pbs.org/kqed/oceanadventures or www.oceanfutures.org.
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Post by sparklingblue on Sept 24, 2006 18:54:09 GMT -5
I might have asked this before, but might there be any chance that this is put to DVD at some point?
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Post by Ace on Sept 24, 2006 19:57:48 GMT -5
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Post by sparklingblue on Sept 25, 2006 12:07:09 GMT -5
Thank you very much for retrieving this information, Ace!  I'll check them out and see whether I can get them delivered to Europe. I'm so happy one can buy them! |
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Post by sparklingblue on Oct 16, 2006 12:43:52 GMT -5
America's Underwater Treasures is meanwhile also available on Amazon. It lists PB as narrator as well. Is that information correct? I have meanwhile sent for the other two-parters and already received Voyage to Kure. I found it enjoyable, not only for the obvious pleasure of PB's voice but also for all the information it gives. I for one, have to confess to my total ignorace about the North-Western Hawaiian Islands. I never knew they even existed!
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Post by steeleinc on Oct 16, 2006 13:06:56 GMT -5
>America's Underwater Treasures[/url] is meanwhile also available on Amazon. It lists PB as narrator as well.
I read that and thought it said "America's Underwear Treasures" and I thought PB must be working for Maidenform again!
Debra
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Post by Ace on Oct 16, 2006 14:05:10 GMT -5
America's Underwater Treasures is meanwhile also available on Amazon. It lists PB as narrator as well. Is that information correct? I have meanwhile sent for the other two-parters and already received Voyage to Kure. I found it enjoyable, not only for the obvious pleasure of PB's voice but also for all the information it gives. I for one, have to confess to my total ignorace about the North-Western Hawaiian Islands. I never knew they even existed! No, Robert Redford narrated the last two parts which included Underwater Treasures. Debra, LOL on Underwear Treasures. That might make for a very fun documentary. Ace |
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Post by sparklingblue on Oct 17, 2006 3:26:35 GMT -5
But the Underwear Treasures would definitely be narrated by Pierce.  Thanks for the information! |
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Post by Lauryn on Oct 21, 2006 11:53:30 GMT -5
But the Underwear Treasures would definitely be narrated by Pierce. Thanks for the information! Funny you should say that. Lingerie store people hawking the stuff along on the street I use when going to work have been making a chain of bras and panties, stretching it out along the median as if it's performance art. Maybe it is, if they're showing off its elastic qualities, but it strikes me as woefully un-sexy. I much prefer the scenario by Maidenform: a night out at the casinos with the former Remington Steele, both of us losing our shirts. Of course, fortune smiles later in the evening. I'm not wearing my lucky bra for nothing. |
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Post by Ace on Oct 21, 2006 12:26:06 GMT -5
OK, this is so off topic and I was going to post it here but I might as well drag it back to the Maidenform topic.  Ace |
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Post by Ace on Apr 11, 2009 17:37:59 GMT -5
This great series continues - starting this week but I don't know who's narrating www.pbs.org/kqed/oceanadventures/series/Sea GhostsPremieres April 8, 2009. (check local listings for repeat airings) There are places on this planet where it's a marvel that anything survives. But in the arctic waters of the Far North, the sea is alive with sound. The canaries of the sea are singing. They're beluga whales, named from the Russian word for "white ones." They're an evolutionary surprise -- a warm-blooded mammal in a numbingly cold sea. Resembling curious ghosts, these intelligent mammals use one of the most complex sonars of any animal. Belugas inhabiting Cook Inlet, close to Anchorage, Alaska, were added to the endangered species list in October 2008. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) stated that a decade-long recovery program had failed to ensure the whales' survival. The relationship between people and belugas is ancient. For more than 4,000 years, hunters of the Far North have depended on these whales for their own survival in a land with little else to offer. These traditional cultures have now partnered with scientists and modern technology to protect the beluga, which, in turn, ensures their own future. Yet these efforts are only a small part of the story, as new discoveries have raised troubling questions about the health of belugas and their long-term survival. Their world is now ground zero for climate change, but what threatens them is not confined to the Arctic, it's global. What lies ahead for the beluga could become prophesy for many species everywhere, including our own. Call Of The Killer WhalePremieres April 22, 2009. (check local listings for repeat airings) The most complex marine species on the planet, our counterparts in the sea, is the orca, the ruler of the ocean. Orcas, also called killer whales, are the most widely distributed marine mammal in the world -- their realm extends from the Arctic to the Antarctic. They number fewer than 100,000 worldwide, and learning more about them is a global endeavor for Jean-Michel Cousteau and his team of explorers, who travel to both the Northern and Southern hemispheres as they seek out killer whales in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Cousteau and the team discover that people and orcas share surprising similarities, even similar needs, and they relate their findings to the captivity and release of Keiko, from Free Willy fame, who captured the world's imagination and whose survival depended on pioneering efforts to reintroduce Keiko into the wild. The team also learns how some of the threats to killer whales now intersect with human lives. Intriguing detours in the expedition arise, leading to critical examinations of our environment, of the food on our dinner tables, even of our own health. |
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