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

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40 total episodes

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2 seasons

First Aired May 23, 1986

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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Mekong: The Gift of Water

Season 2 - Episode 17 - 1h 0m

Air Date

January 13, 1993

Overview

A journey down Southeast Asia's Mekong River. Included: farmers fishing for 600-lb. catfish known as pla beuk; a cave housing 7000 statues of Buddha. Also: the "Golden Triangle," where the borders of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand converge and the source of two-thirds of the world's opium.