An Interview With Jean-Michel Cousteau
What’s the biggest oceanographic mystery?
You know, we’ve mapped the entire surface of the moon, even the parts we haven’t seen, but we haven’t done the ocean. We know very little when it comes to depths deeper than conventional divers or submersibles can go. Beyond the continental shelf of 500 feet, we know nothing. There’s probably thousands of species to be discovered. I spent two years in the Amazon where they have 45-foot tides and sometimes the forest is under water for 40 miles. There are so many species, the Boto - the pink dolphin - has evolved in such a way that the dorsal spine is disconnected so it can swim around trees.
Name the five best places to dive.
Without sounding like I’m playing to you, I’d say:
1. British Columbia’s Puget Sound area
2. The islands off Southern California in the cold and temperate waters
3. The Indo-Pacific
4. The Red Sea
5. Bloody Bay in Little Cayman
To find more information on the Ocean Futures Foundation, check out http://www.oceanfutures.org -- Keiko’s web site and you can contact the Jean-Michel Cousteau Institute at 325 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 USA or e-mail JMCousteau@aol.com. See his regular column in Skin Diver Magazine at http://www.skin-diver.com
© 1999 Linda Gettmann
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