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Jun 2020
22m 27s

L’aquanaute (The Aquanaut)

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Fabien Cousteau, grandson of legendary ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, was just a boy when he fell in love with a creature that most other people fear: sharks. But no one could have predicted that years later, Fabien would do the unthinkableand decide to live among them.

A transcript of this episode is available at https://bit.ly/3H7TErH.

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