Jacques Cousteau: Rediscover the World | New Zealand, Tahiti, Cuba, & Cape Horn — Season 1, Episode 11: Tahiti: Fire Waters

Episode synopsis

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 pre-eruption quake which is a live demostration of the forces that created the Tahitian islands. The Cousteau team dive with local fishermen hunting for the precious black pearls. Captain Cousteau investiagtes the rationale behind the underground nuclear tests taking place around the island of Mururoa.

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

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.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Haiti: Waters of Sorrow
• E2Cuba: Waters of Destiny
• E3Cape Horn: Waters of the Wind
• E4Sea of Cortez: Legacy of Cortez
• E5Marquesas islands: Mountains from the Sea
• E6Channel Islands I: Waters of Contention
• E7Channel Islands II: Days of Future Past
• E8New Zealand I: The Rose and the Dragon
• E9New Zealand II: The Heron of the Single Flight
• E10New Zealand III: The Surrounding Sea
• E12Cocos island: Sharks of Treasure Island
• E13Bering Sea: Twilight of the Alaskan Hunter