Jacques Cousteau: Rediscover the World | New Zealand, Tahiti, Cuba, & Cape Horn — Season 1, Episode 3: Cape Horn: Waters of the Wind
Documentary • 60 min • 2 seasons, 40 episodes • ★ 6.0/10
Episode synopsis
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 ocean passage in the world. The team film huge glactiers, giant crabs, huge albatrosses and tiny penguins. Alcyone herself nearly joins the victims of The Horn when she strikes a hidden rock.
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
- 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
- E11Tahiti: Fire Waters
- E12Cocos island: Sharks of Treasure Island
- E13Bering Sea: Twilight of the Alaskan Hunter