Cousteau: Irwin's Tactics 'Misleading' (very short)

Associated Press via Washington Times ^ | 19 Sep 2006 | no name

[Mr Rogers]

-- Marine explorer Jean-Michel Cousteau said Tuesday that while he...had "a lot of respect" for Irwin...Irwin would "interfere with nature, jump on animals, grab them, hold them, and have this very, very spectacular, dramatic way of presenting things...You don't touch nature, you just look at it. And that's why I'm still alive...I don't mess with nature."

[azhenfud]

Is that a pic of Cousteau "not touching nature"?

[azhenfud]

Who is that holding the sea turtle, "not touching nature"?

[Joe 6-pack]

"I remained in the Land Rover, while Jim went to kick Cousteau's a$$."

[rightgrafix]

Jacques grandson says otherwise.

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/cousteau%20honours%20crocodile%20hunter_1007511

[maggief]

http://www.homeplanetproductions.com/credits.shtml

In Baja, Mexico, with Jean-Michel Cousteau and a gray whale

[maggief]

Here's another:



Jean-Michel and two Caymanian children hold tiny turtle hatchlings at Grand Cayman's Turtle Farm.

http://www.skin-diver.com/departments/DiveTheWorld/CarribeanAndBermuda/CaymanIslands/cayman_dec00.asp?theID=1379

[NathanR]

Two generations?? Not hardly. For one thing, his father was the inventor of the aqua lung (i.e. SCUBA gear) He, on the other hand, is just a petty Frenchman.)

[Sue Perkick]

Please Jean-Michelle. For the love of all creatures in the animal kingdom, look with your eyes & not your hands. Do it for......for......nature.

[Charlespg]

You don't touch nature, you just look at it. And that's why I'm still alive...I don't mess with nature."

Quiet you perfidious damm frog

[NFOShekky]

I know I'm in the minority after reading these posts, but I agree with Cousteau. I hunt and fish so I am definitely not in the PETA camp and I agree with your comment regarding "partaking" of nature. What I don't like about Irwin is that he was not about partaking of nature by observing, studying, using, eating nature, etc., he was about tormenting it for sensational TV. IMHO, I'm sorry for the loss to his family, but he was a jerk. You mess with the bull (for no good reason), your gonna get the horns. . .

[Sue Perkick]

I know I'm in the minority after reading these posts, but I agree with Cousteau.

Cousteau doesn't even agree with himself.

[spinestein]

[What I don't like about Irwin is that he was not about partaking of nature by observing, studying, using, eating nature, etc., he was about tormenting it for sensational TV. IMHO, I'm sorry for the loss to his family, but he was a jerk.]



Every bit of evidence available, from his TV shows to the mission of his zoo and his animal rescue groups to everything publicly known about his interaction with animals contradicts this. But it seems there always has to be at least one token naysayer for everything.

[ichabod1]

He deserves to have that statement come back to bite him posthumously in the posterior.

[ichabod1]

How was it? A little vinegary?

[ichabod1]

Did he dive in his khakis? I think he did. Little Bindi in her khakis was sooo cute, and so heart breaking. She's going to be the next star of that family, mark my words.

[ichabod1]

And there are a heck of a lot more of them.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Talk about classless. Typical Frog...

[Sue Perkick]

LOL. It already has.

[ichabod1]

Yep. The only alternative to most of his croc wrestling in the wild was to shoot the animals. He was moving them to save them from a death sentence.

[A Texan]

That movie kills me, it is absolute genius.