Jean-Michel Cousteau is the president of the high-profile Ocean Futures Society. He has made more than 80 films and has won an Emmy, a Peabody, a 7 d'Or, and a Cable Ace Award. Cousteau is the executive producer of the acclaimed PBS TV series Jean-Michel Cousteau- Ocean Adventures, and the author of My Father, the Captain- My Life with Jacques Cousteau. Daniel Paisner is the New York Timesbestselling author/coauthor of more than 60 books, including Denzel Washington's A Hand to Guide Me, Missy Franklin's Relentless Spirit- The Unconventional Raising of a Champion, and Daymond John's The Power of Broke- How Empty Pockets, a Tight Budget, and a Hunger for Success Can Become Your Greatest Competitive Advantage. To learn more, visit danielpaisner.com or follow @DanielPaisner on Twitter.
It's an intimate look at the man who first brought marine life into the living rooms of millions of Americans in the 1960s, and who fought tirelessly to open the eyes of the world to the oceans' dwindling natural resources. -Express Jean-Michel [Cousteau] has just published a new book, My Father, the Captain, about both the public life and private side of his famous father. -PBS NewsHour