Status Updates From Life and Death in a Coral Sea

Typo page 175 paragraph 5. “Saized” should be “seized.” (Copyright 1971, translated from French by J.F. Bernard

Son is charged by a shark and narrowly escapes death by jaw and by sinking anti-shark cage. Cousteau says: that’s a misadventure, that is.
Crew mate is attacked by a grouper who bits tHROUGH the diving suit and breaks skin. Cousteau says: groupers are generally inoffensive creatures.
I love this guy.

Cousteau is livin’ the dream. He writes so conversationally and still presents the book as nonfiction. I feel like I’m chatting with a particularly well-informed diving buddy. Also these PICTURES are EVERYTHING. Holy smokes. THEY’RE GORGEOUS and seriously impressive for the time. And omg? The casualness with which Cousteau addresses shark encounters and seriously dangerous excursions? He’s so chill I love it