Fabien Cousteau: What I learned from spending 31 days underwater

In 1963, Jacques Cousteau lived for 30 days in an underwater laboratory positioned on the floor of the Red Sea, and set a world record in the process. This summer, his grandson Fabien Cousteau broke that record. Cousteau the younger lived for 31 days aboard the Aquarius, an underwater research laboratory nine miles off the coast of Florida. In a charming talk he brings his wondrous adventure to life.

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[AugustAdvice]

its sad that if he grew up in this day and age, his teacher and a doctor would probably diagnose him with ADHD
 and medicate that curiosity out of him.

[luvmuchine]

I'm not going to watch the video but I can sum up the basic synopsis of it.  "I learned from spending 31 days underwater that air is super fucking important."

[tahiriiliass]

It's a science project, but I also see it as a holiday in the most beautiful place in the earth which is the ocean.

[Titleknown]

Dude, I'm pretty sure they made an entire video game franchise out of why an ocean city is a terrible, terrible idea.

[RedPolarBearRanger]

I had the pleasure of meeting Faiben myself 2 years ago at Beneath the Sea a scuba diving convention he was a great person too.

[pkmdz]

I like this guy. Can't imagine living under water though.

[zrdic]

Looking forward to live in a city under the ocean. This is an interesting talk.

[gerardoalvarez]

Fabien Cousteau, tras los pasos de su abuelo. Very good!

[HigherPlanes]

One of Jacques oldest jokes was "Is that Megafauna in your pants or you just happy to see me?"

[flyinspirals]

That is a brilliant observation: they don't test for curiosity.
How true, and how foolish of us not to, if we're going to test at all.

[elemenz]

Can't help thinking about Archer, the missing bomb episode... oh god.

[gaylecheung]

Amazing work you do for planet earth, thank you Fabieam Cousteau ♥️🇨🇦🌏

[jonskunator]

Maybe an underwater research station could be established, just like there is the International Space Station?

[janeholst]

It is almost criminal not to mention that he has been influenced by his grandfather and his great inventions.

[miroslavasreckovic]

Hopefully, there won't be future underwater cities. Yes, thanks to science we found out some interesting things toward marine life and awful things such as pollution of oceans, but : Is there any limit in invading the nature ?

[TigerPrawn_]

Those aquatic plants remind me of the ones in Avatar (2009)
a great film about respecting nature and all its inhabitants.

[holleey]

hm, underwater cities sound similar to living on mars/other planets to me... meaning that there's just no real point in it at this time. but of course i may be mistaken and underwater cities would actually contribute to something, like for instance drastically increasing the number of people realizing the importance of bio-mass and diversity in the oceans and therefore become active against the unsustainable over farming of them. although i hope that it doesn't require underwater cities for that realization...

that anno 2070 screenshot though ^^

[Markolsencd]

0:42 Does he say that he is dyslexic because he is left handed? Im sorry i know its not important but it caught my attention.

[philipsalter]

So what did he learn? Slowmo is cool, observing random fish is cool, but where is the insight here?

[NikolajLepka]

I just hope they'll call it Project Rapture