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  Sharks

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/1968

  Captain Cousteau and his ship the Calypso visit the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Aden in order to study shark behaviour and to test methods of protecting shipwreck and air crash victims from shark attacks. Ichthyologist Dr. Eugenia Clark joins the Calypso crew to study shark behavior and test shark repellents.

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  Savage World of the Coral Jungle

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/6/1968

  The team travels to the coral reefs of the Indian Ocean, an area teeming with animal and plant life, and where numemous complex relationships between different species are played out on a daily basis. Cousteau and his men find a well-ordered universe housing a highly complex community on the coral reef.

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  Search in the deep

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/15/1968

  The island ot Europa, in the Mozambique Channel between Africa and Madagascar, is the foremost breeding ground of the mysterious sea turtle. The crew's cameras follow the turtles' mating rituals, the females' laboured journey up the beach to lay their eggs, and the fight for survival of the newly-hatched babies. The Calypso crew films the undersea mating dance and subsequent egg-laying of the sea turtle.

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  Whales

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/15/1968

  The Calypso divers study finback, sperm and killer whales, monitoring their migratory habits by planting small tags in their skin. Captain Cousteau also recounts the romance and legend of the great whales. Cousteau and his crew implant tracking devices into whales off the coasts of Madagascar and California.

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  The Unexpected Voyage of Pepito and Cristobal

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/13/1969

  Captain Cousteau and the crew of the Calypso adopt a pair of fur seals off the Cape of Good Hope. During an Atlantic crossing the men begin to establish a relationship of trust and friendship with the mammals. Cousteau and his crew take two wild seal pups aboard for study.

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  Sunken Treasure

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 3/3/1969

  The crew sets out on a treasure hunt to the Caribbean in search of the wreck of La Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, a Spanish ship that sank over 300 years ago carrying more than $2m in silver and gold.

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  The Legend of Lake Titicaca

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 4/24/1969

  The divers travel inland to Peru's Lake Titicaca, testing experimental techniques for diving at high altitude for the first time. Deep in the lake they discover a unique species of frog whose lungs have atrophied like fish, they die when removed from the water. Cousteau's divers investigate the lake's legend of Inca treasure. The treasure proves to be illusory, but ancient pottery and a unique species of aquatic frog are found.

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  The Desert Whales

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1969

  The Calypso crew follows 35-ton California gray whales on their annual breeding migration. The crew of the Calypso studies the little-known California grey whale, as this once-endangered species embarks on its 5,000-mile annual breeding migration. The team observes the intimate relationships between these creatures, including mating and the feeding of a baby grey.

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  The Night of the Squid

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/16/1970

  The crew observes as 20 million squid amass in coastal waters to mate, spawn and die. In the waters off southern California the Calypso happens upon the savage, yet touching, spawning ritual of the sea arrow squids of the Pacific. From their exotic mating dance to the microscopic battle for survival of the newly-hatched young, the entire cycle is captured on film by the crew.

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  Return of the Sea Elephant

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/8/1970

  Cousteau and his team study the life and death of the sea elephant, a massive sea mammal which returns each year to the small island of Guadalupe for ritual combat, mating and breeding. Finally, the divers discover the sea elephants' secret graveyard, 25 fathoms below the waves. The crew studies the massive creatures as they mate and nurse on Guadalupe.

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  Those Incredible Diving Machines

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/10/1970

  The history of underwater exploration is traced from the days of Alexander the Great to the development of the aqualung in 1942, the first bathyscaphe in 1948, the diving saucer in 1959, through to a new fleet of modern deep sea submersibles. A photographic essay traces man's endeavors and advances in undersea exploration.

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  The Water Planet

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 3/28/1970

  After more than 140,000 nautical miles travelled aboard the Calypso, and having shot around two million feet of film, Cousteau shares his personal thoughts on the challenges they face filming the infinite phenomena of the water planet. Cousteau presents a behind-the-scenes look at the motivations and challenges driving his crew.

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  Tragedy of the Red Salmon

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 11/24/1970

  The Cousteau team follows the spawning migration of the red sockeye salmon from the open sea to the Alaskan waters of their birth, up the Salmon River to remote Fraser Lake.

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  Lagoon of Lost Ships

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 5/14/1971

  Truk lagoon in the South Pacific, the site of a fierce battle during WWII, is now home to around 50 sunken Japanese vessels. The crew explores the Pacific lagoon to learn how marine life adapts to foreign matter. The divers discover an uncharted sunken freighter, complete with the skeletons of its long-dead crew.

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  The Dragons of Galapagos

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/24/1971

  The crew journey to the Galapagos Islands to study the marine iguana, a mysterious dragon-like creature that has reversed the course of evolution and returned to the sea for food and survival.

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  Secrets of the Sunken Caves

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 3/19/1971

  The strange geological phenomenon of 'blue holes' is investigated by Captain Cousteau and his team, as they discover an undersea 'cathedral' one hundred feet below the surface.

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  The Unsinkable Sea Otter

  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 9/26/1971

  In the North Aleutian Islands, Cousteau and his crew observe the rough courtship and tender mating of the sea otter, before continuing to Monterey where the otter's existence is being threatened by man-made hazards such as pollution and illegal hunting.

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  The Forgotten Mermaids

  Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 12/21/1971

  The crew travels to the cypress glades of East Florida to film the manatee, a vegetarian creature of the sea whose closest living relative is the elephant. Learning of the plight of 'Sewer Sam', a manatee trapped in the sewers of Miami, the team attempts to help return Sam to the river.

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  Octopus, Octopus

  Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1/24/1972

  The crew studies the eight-armed octopus's life cycle and ongoing evolutionary process.

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  A sound of dolphins

  Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/25/1972

  The crew isolates a pair of dolphins to study the species' remarkable sonar system.

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  A smile of the walrus

  Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 11/5/1972

  The crew films the walrus lolling on Arctic ice floes and swimming in the frigid sea.

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  500 million years beneath the sea

  Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 1/11/1973

  The crew dives at night to observe the Nautilus -- a living marine fossil.

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  Hippo!

  Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 2/16/1973

  The crew swims among crocodiles to capture the quick-tempered hippo in action beneath the water.

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  The singing whale

  Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1973

  The Calypso crew records the plaintive, melodious songs of migrating humpback whales.

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  South to fire and ice

  Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 11/29/1973

  The crew climbs glaciers, examines whale bones and watches a volcano.

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  The flight of penguins

  Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 1/21/1974

  The crew observes penguins feeding, mating and raising young.

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  Beneath the frozen world

  Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/3/1974

  The crew dives below the ice, and sails above in a hot-air balloon.

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  Blizzard at Hope Bay

  Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 3/22/1974

  The disabled Calypso becomes trapped during a three-day blizzard.

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  Beavers of the north country

  Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 1/6/1975

  Underwater cameras capture beavers at work and resting in their dams during winter.

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  The coral divers of Corsica

  Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 11/15/1975

  Cousteau studies the rapidly disappearing red-coral forests of the Mediterranean Sea.

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  The sleeping sharks of Yucatan

  Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 11/15/1975

  Cousteau investigates reports of sharks seen resting in underwater caves.

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