For decades, Captain Jacques Cousteau documented the ocean with an explorer’s curiosity and a filmmaker’s eye, creating an irreplaceable record of discovery, life, and wonder beneath the surface. Today, more than 10,000 hours of that original expedition footage remain preserved in the Cousteau Society’s archives. But time is catching up. Film fades. Colors shift. Details are lost as reels grow increasingly fragile. Through our Film Restoration Project, experts are working frame by frame to stabi