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Jean-Michel Cousteau and crew on the runway at Tern Island within the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge. Thousands of seabirds rely on these tiny islets in the midst of the Pacific as nesting grounds.
Photo credit: Nan Marr, Ocean Futures Society |
Voyage to "Kure" Trains Camera's Eye On Refuges (July 6, 2003)
Jean-Michel Cousteau
and his Ocean Futures crew embarked July 6 from Honolulu on a six-week
voyage through the Hawaiian
Islands and Midway
Atoll Refuges to film "Voyage to Kure", a documentary about
one of the last pristine coral reefs in the Pacific. The film is targeted
to air nationally on public television in Fall 2004.
Over the last nine months, staff of the Pacific Remote Islands Refuge
Complex dedicated a tremendous amount of time to this outreach project.
Two employees, Jim Maragos (a coral reef biologist) and Beth Flint (a
seabird biologist), used their expertise to "guide" Mr. Cousteau's
group in their exploration of the natural resources within the Hawaiian
Island and Midway Atoll Refuges.
In September, another
Hawaiian Islands NWR employee, Alex Wegmann, will be a crew member on
the Hokulea canoe voyage that will sail through the Northwestern Hawaiian
Islands, and meet Mr. Cousteau at Midway. The exceptional coral reef/marine
resources at Tern Island will be filmed at that time. For more information
about the voyage, go to http://www.oceanfutures.org/kure/kure_mission.asp.
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