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Jean-Michel Cousteau and the Ocean Adventures: "Sea Ghosts" (Belugas) and "Call of the Killer Whale" (Orcas)
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Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures: Return to the Amazon
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Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures
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• Voyage to Kure: press release
• Voyage to Kure: bios
• Voyage to Kure: essay
• Sharks at Risk: press release
• Sharks at Risk: bios
• Sharks at Risk: essay
• The Gray Whale Obstacle Course: press release
• The Gray Whale Obstacle Course: bios
• The Gray Whale Obstacle Course: essay
• America's Underwater Treasures: release
• America's Underwater Treasures: bios
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• America's Underwater Treasures: essay

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Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures: Return to the Amazon: Photos & Video
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A group of Scarlet Ibis.
Rio Araguan, Brazil

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Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures: Return to the Amazon
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Jacaré, a South American crocodile.
Mamirauá Reserve, Brazil

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Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
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A butterfly lands on the nose of a turtle.
Los Amigos Research Center, Peru

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Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
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(L-R) Céline Cousteau and Holly Lohuis take a stroll through hundreds of butterflies which gather on the river banks to feed.
Atalia, Brazil.

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Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
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Cattle ranchers at the Bacaeri Ranch.
Bacaeri Ranch, Mato Grosso, Brazil

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Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
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Céline Cousteau comes face to face with a freshwater stingray.
Xixuaú-Xiparina Ecological Reserve, Brazil

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Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
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Underwater reflections of the rainforest.
Xixuaú-Xiparina Ecological Reserve, Brazil

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Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
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Fabien and Céline Cousteau look for the perfect dive spot.
Xixuaú-Xiparina Ecological Reserve, Brazil

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Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
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Jean-Michel Cousteau leads his team in retracing the route he and his father took along the length of the Amazon River 25 years ago.
Manaus, Brazil

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Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
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Céline Cousteau photographs the floating city of Belén during the high water season.
Belén, Iquitos, Peru

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Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
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Fabien Cousteau returns from a dive in the Amazon.
Xixuaú-Xiparina Ecological Reserve, Brazil

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Jean-Michel Cousteau and school children from Iquitos at the Pilpintuwasi Butterfly Farm and Amazon Animal Orphanage.
Pilpintuwasi

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Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
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In a traditional Amazon River myth, at night a boto (pink river dolphin) becomes a handsome young man, a shapeshifter called an encantado.
Ariau Towers, Brazil, Rio Negro

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Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
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The X-team's expedition vessel, the Ariau Açu, crosses the "meeting of the waters": Rio Negro and the Amazon River.
Manaus, Brazil

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Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
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Peru's Quelccaya ice cap in the Southern Andes Mountains has shrunk by at least 20 percent since 1963. Bare earth has been exposed for the first time in thousands of years.
Qori Kalis Glacier, Quelccaya Ice Cap, Andes, Peru

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Carrie Vonderhaar, Ocean Futures Society/KQED
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