<sf 21.232> <<male,
Lou_Waters>>
The last great explorer
^Jacques ^Cousteau has died in ^Paris at age eighty-seven.
<t 25.907> <<female,
Natalie_Allen>>
{breath} Part of Early
Prime is being preempted so that for the next half hour we can remember
one of the giants
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of the twentieth century.
Hello, I'm ^Natalie ^Allen
<t 33.300> <<male,
Lou_Waters>>
and I'm ^Lou ^Waters.
<sr 34.117> <<male,
Lou_Waters>>
Most folks on this planet
spend virtually all of their lives on dry land,
<t 38.414> <<female,
Natalie_Allen>>
but ^Jacques ^Cousteau
the French oceanographer spent most of his life exploring and tending the
four-fifths of the Earth covered by water.
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{breath} From invention
to education to inspiration ^Cousteau changed the way we think of our planet.
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{breath} ~CNN's ^David
^Mattingly reviews some of ^Cousteau's accomplishments.
<t 56.827> <<male,
Speaker1 >>
A ship that leaves ^Miami
harbor is practically brand new
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and ready to sail to
new discoveries.
<t 63.980> <<male,
David_Mattingly>>
It was an accident that
charted ^Jacques ^Cousteau's course toward the sea.
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In nineteen thirty-six
a young ^Cousteau nearly died in a car wreck.
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His injuries ended a
promising career as a French Navy pilot
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and steered him toward
his other loves diving and documentary film-making.
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.
.
<t 357.351> <<male,
David_Mattingly>>
^David ^Mattingly ~CNN
reporting
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<sf 362.181> <<female,
Natalie_Allen>>
{breath} And in a moment
we'll hear from some of the many people who admired ^Cousteau and learned
from him.
<t 366.898> <<male,
Lou_Waters>>
Also coming up a live
report from one of the world's largest aquariums and we'll be finding out
how Mister ^Cousteau inspired a woman there to fund important research.
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<sr 544.008> <<female,
Natalie_Allen>>
{breath} One of the giants
of our time. That's how delegates to the United Nations Earth Summit
remembers ^Jacques ^Cousteau, protecting the oceans
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and bringing their fragile
world to light was their main goal.
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.
.
<t 859.405> <<male,
Speaker1>>
Not only do we methodically
destroy the coastal fringe
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but we also throw back
our toxic effluence directly in the sea
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or under the sea when
we feel ashamed.
.
.
.
<t 1100.701> <<male,
Steve_Echemende>>
Well you know there are
some people in life that are just
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driven to be explorers.
And you know my favorite books when I was k- a kid were ^Shackleton's Valiant
Voyage
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talking about being an explorer and I realized that
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exploring the the ocean that was
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our frontier that we could actually achieve right here.
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So it was either be an astronaut or be an oceanographer.
<t 1122.443> <<male, Don_Knapp>>
about the same thing I
<o 1123.276> <<male, Steve_Echemende>>
SPEAKER1:understand {laugh}
SPEAKER2:well
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oceanography is new exploration and we're not
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we're not only getting
into exploration by going there {breath} but we're also developing
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new tools and instrumentation
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that can explore the ocean like it's never been explored before.
.
.
<t 3474.016> <<female, Natalie_Allen>>
That's Early Prime.
We thank you for watching. I'm ^Natalie
<o 3476.526> <<male, Lou_Waters>>
SPEAKER1:^Allen
SPEAKER2:I'm ^Lou
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^Waters. Show-biz
Today as ^Lauren told you is next. We'll see you next time.
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Bye bye.
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