Hero Portraits: Jean Michel Cousteau

MY HERO Reporter Slater Jewel Kemker writes: "Jean-Michel Cousteau was first "thrown overboard" by his father, oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, at the age of seven. Strapped into newly invented scuba gear, Jean-Michel had his first experience of scuba diving. For years, he and his family dove into that other world from the deck of his father's boat, The Calypso. He has produced over seventy films about the ocean and has traveled the world, speaking to all sorts of people on behalf of the world's oceans and its creatures. After his mother died in 1990 and his father's death in 1997, Jean-Michel Cousteau formed "Ocean Futures Society" in 1999."