Fabien Cousteau

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Fabien Cousteau (b. 1967) is a French aquatic filmmaker and oceanographic explorer. He is son of Jean-Michel Cousteau and grandson of the noted oceanographic explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau. Born in Paris, he grew up in both France and the United States, and frequently accompanied his grandfather and father on their sea voyages. He graduated from Boston University.

His first known scuba dive was an hour and a half buddy-breathing with a family friend in a swimming pool on his fourth birthday.

Fabien Cousteau has made intensive study of sharks in their natural habitat, with the use of "Troy", a specially built "Trojan Shark" submarine built in the shape of a great white shark. He has spent several hundred hours filming sharks in preparation for his documentary film on the subject, titled Mind of a Demon. He developed the idea of a shark-shaped submersible based on a childhood memory of the cover of a French-language comic book, The Adventures of Tintin: Le trésor de Rackham le rouge, which featured such a craft (which was purely imaginary at the time).[1] Mind of a Demon aired on U.S. television network CBS on June 28, 2006 at 8 p.m. It will also be shown outside the United States at different times during mid 2006.

[edit] External links

• Fabien Cousteau official site
• "The Underseen World of Fabien Cousteau" by Tim Stoddard, from Bostonia, Summer 2003

[edit] Listening

• "Fabien Cousteau, Swimming with Sharks", from National Public Radio All Things Considered radio program, December 3, 2005