Humpback Ballet - Cousteau divers film close encounter

In the warm protected waters of the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, two thirds of the North Pacific humpback whale population come to compete and mate. In this short film, Cousteau divers use rebreathers to quietly film a pod of humpback whales. Their intimate experience is featured in "America's Underwater Treasures," a two-hour program and part of the series, Jean-Michel Cousteau's Ocean Adventures shown on PBS. The crew anticipated their enormous size, but not the grace of their underwater ballet. Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures is a co-production between Ocean Futures Society and KQED

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• Jean-Michel
• Cousteau
• humpback
• ballet
• Ocean
• Futures
• PBS
• KQED
• whales
• diving
• underwater
• marine
• life
• Hawaii

[OceanFuturesSociety]

Humpback ballet is now available in High Definition. Just click on the video response above.

[tundrasheep]

Why does Iceland continue to kill whales?

-They do it in a pathetic attempt to hold onto the past so that they can continue to identify with their bloody legacy of whaling.

-It is a blood sport to them and a way of indulging in the sadistic pleasure of killing whales and thumbing their noses at other nations.

-Killing whales is the pursuit of little people with small minds with a lust to destroy creatures more intelligent and more beautiful than themselves.

[OceanFuturesSociety]

The music is tilted, "Alone" and is composed by Dean Grinsfelder of Highland Music Productions.

[khamfl]

is there any danger of getting hit by the tail? i feel like that would be game over

[savecetaceans]

This is absolutely breath taking. Thank you!

[brewa90]

! maravilloso momento ¡

[dcabrams]

This is such an amazing video! Absolutely love it! Thanks for posting. Swimming with whales is unlike any other experience in the world...amazing and breathtaking! You might enjoy my recent novel, Eye of the Whale, which I actually did close encounter research for during the making of the story! Thanks for bringing such fantastic underwater visuals to the world above water!

[marilynnblock]

"Peace will come to humankind when we make peace with the whales and hear their song," Native American prophesy.

[TenDuotrigintillion]

@heihei2300 then you'll be soon eaten by the japanese

[SuperKare123]

Why can't humans leave them alone.Is it too much to ask to let them be free.

[nicopetromac]

@michelecrenshaw

I cried as well. very touching!!

[Rose1963ful]

Simply 5000 *****...

[heihei2300]

I want to be a whale :)