Fabien Cousteau on the Big Spill

To Fabien Cousteau, a grandson of the undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau, the scene off the shores of Pensacola, Fla., was painful to behold: tar balls on a deserted beach, an oily sheen on the ocean’s surface, the result of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “I’m sure the general public feels that same pain,” says Cousteau (CGS’89, MET’91), an environmental advocate and an ocean explorer, who has been diving since he was four years old.