My Father The Captain

(Dive Travel Business News - June 4, 2010) -- Legendary underwater explorer and filmmaker Jacques-Yves Cousteau was born 100 years ago, on June 11, 1910. To mark the centenary of his birth, National Geographic Books has published a memoir by his eldest son, Jean-Michel, the noted French environmentalist, educator and film producer who has spent much of his adult life nurturing the work of his famous father.

In My Father, The Captain: My Life with Jacques Cousteau, Jean-Michel Cousteau takes an open and intimate look at the life he shared with his father, shedding new and meaningful light on the life and work of a man who inspired millions to reconsider our relationship with the sea and its creatures-and, in the process, to understand a little more about himself and his family as well.

Jean-Michel also shared his father's wish to educate children to be future ambassadors of the sea, and he founded the Ocean Futures Society, a marine conservation and education organization, to continue his father's legacy.

"My father introduced the world to the grand, enlightening adventures of the seas; he helped develop the 'sport' of diving and opened up the oceans in such a way that people could swim like fish, unencumbered and free; and his cameras recorded the spectacular sounds and sights of the deep and brought them into our living rooms. Such boundless wonder all from one man. And so I took it upon myself to share these precious gifts with as many children as I could, to open up the seas for them in the same way my father had opened them up for me."

The original French edition of Jean-Michel's 2004 memoir, "Mon Père, le Commandant," published to critical acclaim, provides the foundation for My Father, The Captain.  But the new version is shot-through with new material and fresh insights into the life and mind of a man who helped to jump-start a global conservation effort that continues to flourish. Jean-Michel Cousteau and
his collaborator, New York Times best-selling author Daniel Paisner, offer
an intimate reappraisal of the many touchstone moments Jean-Michel shared
with his father, as well as the seminal moments from his father's life that
have become part of the Cousteau family lore and legend.

Special autographed copies of My Father, The Captain are available at the Ocean Futures Society website with a portion of proceeds benefitting Ocean Futures programs.

National Geographic Books; ISBN: 978-1-4262-0683-2; $26 eBook and hardcover

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