Jacques Cousteau: Rediscover the World | New Zealand, Tahiti, Cuba, & Cape Horn — Season 1, Episode 4: Sea of Cortez: Legacy of Cortez
Documentary • 60 min • 2 seasons, 40 episodes • ★ 6.0/10
Episode synopsis
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 marine creatures - birds and sea lions, fish and mammals. The Cousteau team compile the first complete record of the feeding behaviour of the elusive finback whale, the mating of the mama rays and spawning rites of the grunion.
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
- 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