Cousteau tells tales of adventure at CSC

Oceanographist Jean-Michel Cousteau spoke at Memorial Hall Auditorium 7 p.m., Thursday.

Jean-Michel Cousteau, a French native, came to share his stories about his adventurous life and to represent his society, Ocean Futures Society, to communicate to the people his love and concern of marine life.

Cousteau gave a hour and half speech, while sharing videos and answering questions.

“Protect the ocean and you protect yourself,” Cousteau said.

He explained that from the creation of new technology and appropriate equipment, people are now able to film in slow motion and focus on all kind of creature behavior which can not be seen with the naked eye.

Those equipment allowed the public to watched a video made by the Ocean Future Society, called “Secret Ocean.”

The water system needs to be taken care of because we all drink from the ocean, Cousteau explai-ned this is why he educates the general public how our own lives are affected by the actions toward the ocean.

“I hope the world will make the right decisions to work with the oceans as we work a business, that the human creativity will allow us to create fish farms which will make a lot less CO2 emissions, no transports, for example to bring fresh fish to places like here because the fish would have grown in a place much closer, there wouldn’t be any frozen fish anymore,” Cousteau said.

He shared how his father Jacques-Yves Cousteau created the scuba also called the aqualung, which changed everything in learning the oceans better than ever.

“Follow your dreams do what you want and even if right now you do not know, one day you will wake up and tell yourself that is want I want to do,” Cousteau advised.

Cousteau’s presentation was well received by attendees.