JACQUES COUSTEAU BACK ON SUNDAY

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33777, 25 February 1975, Page 4

JACQUES COUSTEAU BACK ON SUNDAY

The famed underwater explorer and co-inventor of the aqualung, Jacques Cousteau, presents another of his enthralling' underwater series, this time centred in Antarctica. It begins next Sunday at 7.53 p.m.

I All four episodes in the ; series deal with a threemonth expedition Captain [ Cousteau’s team made to Antarctica to gather informaI (ion on various aspects of this fascinating continent. In the first programme, “South to Fire and Ice,” the Cousteau team visits Deception Island, a desolate area of ice and rock between the tip of South America and Antarctica. The purpose of] their visit was to investigate the craters of a volcano which has been erupting for the last six years and to com -| pare climatic changes in the Antarctic with the weather records of the Northern] Hemisphere. The second programme is entitled “The Flight of the Penguins.” and deals with] some of the 18 different varieties of penguin inhabit-] ing the Antarctic. Each of! these varieties has distinctive markings, shapes, sizes and 1 characteristics and Captain i Cousteau has concentrated on [ three of them—filming the complete life cycles of the' Adelie, Gentoo and Chinstrap penguins otr a colony! where they all live together in harmony. ;\ ' In the third programme, “Beneath the Frozen World,” divers from Cousteau’s research ship, Calypso, descend to previously ' inaccessible sites beneath the ice—a

hazardous undertaking hij waters where the temperature hovers around freezing point! and where conditions on the surface are also far from! pleasant. The final programme., “Blizzard at Hope Bay,”] nearly spelled "finis” fori Captain Cousteau and the Calypso once and tor all. The!

I scientific survey became a dramatic fight for survival (when a fierce three-dav ! blizzard heaped 30 tons of ! ice and snow on the Calypso and sent huge icebergs crashi ing against the ship. The ] Calypso and her crew finally made it to safety but not beifore the ship sustained conIsiderable damage.