Jacques Cousteau: Rediscover the World | New Zealand, Tahiti, Cuba, & Cape Horn

S01E17: Papua New Guinea: Into the Time Machine

Overview

Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the Calypso set sail to research far-off cultures and species of aquatic fauna and flora in another of the explorer's nature series, mainly in the Pacific Ocean and in the West Indies.

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S01E01 Haiti: Waters of Sorrow

May 23, 1986 60 min
When Christopher Columbus discovered Haiti in 1492 he described a different Haiti, an island that has suffered centuries of exploitation and people who now live in the misery of over-population.

S01E02 Cuba: Waters of Destiny

May 30, 1986 60 min
The Cousteau team discover in the waters around Cuba a richness that divers have not seen in any other part of the Caribbean Sea for at least twenty years. The team film the strange vertical...

S01E03 Cape Horn: Waters of the Wind

June 6, 1986 60 min
Alcyone's debut and its first major test as a research and diving platform sharing duties with the Calypso. Alcyone and her team challenge the seas of Cape Horn, widely thought to be the most dangerous...

S01E04 Sea of Cortez: Legacy of Cortez

June 13, 1986 60 min
Captain Cousteau and the crew of the Alcyone head northward from Cape Horn to investigate Mexico's fabled Sea of Cortez. The youngest and deepest of all the world's ocean gulfs; the seas is risch with...

S01E05 Marquesas islands: Mountains from the Sea

June 20, 1986 60 min
The Cousteau team on board the Calyspo set sail for the South Pasific and the Marquseas Islands. Once hearty and independent, the people suffered death and destruction under the Spaniards and the Missionaries. Today, these...

S01E06 Channel Islands I: Waters of Contention

June 27, 1986 60 min
The Channel Islands lie a few hours from the coast of California. Islands that have remained almost unchanged from prehistoric times due to the rocky coastlines and the violent sea. Divers from the Alcyone discover...

S01E07 Channel Islands II: Days of Future Past

July 4, 1986 60 min
Over the centuries the riches of the Channel Islands have drawn fishermen and seal hunters. However, man the exploror and hunter is becoming more of man the protector. The natural environment and the rare animals,...

S01E08 New Zealand I: The Rose and the Dragon

July 11, 1986 60 min
Captain Cousteau and his team rediscover New Zealand. The Calypso travels around its coastline whilst a land team crosses more than 42,000 kilometres of countyside. New Zealand extends from the sub-tropical zone to the sub...

S01E09 New Zealand II: The Heron of the Single Flight

July 18, 1986 60 min
Captain Cousteau recognizes and discusses the problem of fishing around the coast of New Zealand. The Calypso divers meet the endangered elephant fish and film families of sea-lions. The Cousteau team also takes an interest...

S01E10 New Zealand III: The Surrounding Sea

July 25, 1986 60 min
New Zealand, an island of three climates, sub-Antartic, temperate and sub-tropical. An island of fire, ice and earthquake. Captain Cousteau and team journey to New Zealnd's furthermost points: White Island with its still alive volcano:...

S01E11 Tahiti: Fire Waters

August 1, 1986 60 min
Tahiti, once a South Pacific paradise, has gradually fallen prey to tourism, technology, and most frightening of all, the nuclear weapon. Whilst exploring the famed underwater MacDonald Seamount, the Cousteau divers are startled by a...

S01E12 Cocos island: Sharks of Treasure Island

August 8, 1986 60 min

S01E13 Bering Sea: Twilight of the Alaskan Hunter

August 15, 1986 60 min

S01E14 New Zealand: The Smoldering Sea

August 22, 1986 60 min

S01E15 Australia: The Last Barrier

August 29, 1986 60 min

S01E16 Borneo: The Ghost of the Sea Turtle

September 5, 1986 60 min

S01E17 Papua New Guinea: Into the Time Machine

September 12, 1986 60 min

S01E18 Papua New Guinea: River of Crocodile Men

September 19, 1986 60 min

S01E19 Papua New Guinea: Center of Fire

September 26, 1986 60 min

S01E20 Thailand: Convicts of the Sea

October 3, 1986 60 min

S01E21 Borneo: Forests without Land

October 10, 1986 60 min

S01E22 Andaman: Invisible Islands

October 17, 1986 60 min

Cast

Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Self

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