IAN SOMERHALDER & DR. GREG STONE VISIT AQUARIUS

A vampire and scientist walk into an undersea habitat...

Ian Somerhalder, Actor and Philanthropist, along with Dr. Greg Stone, Chief Scientist with Conservation International, visit with Fabien Cousteau during Mission 31 to discuss the state of our oceans and how to protect them.


Learn more about Mission 31 and watch the live feeds at http://mission-31.com.

Learn more about FIU Aquarius program at http://aquarius.fiu.edu/

CREDITS:

Executive Producer- Fabien Cousteau
Producer/Editor- Marc Ostrick
Camera- Marc Ostrick, Billy Snook, Tom Hamilton, Toby Wallwork, Kip Evans
Graphics, Audio Mix, and Color Correction- Toby Wallwork
Production Coordinator- Saul Rosser

ABOUT MISSION 31:

Fabien Cousteau's Mission 31 will break new ground in ocean exploration and also coincides with the 50th anniversary of a monumental legacy left by his grandfather Jacques-Yves Cousteau, who is credited with creating the first ocean floor habitats for humans and leading a team of ocean explorers on the first attempt to live and work underwater aboard Conshelf Two. The ambitious 30-day living experiment in the Red Sea succeeded as the first effort in saturation diving, proving that it could be done without suffering any ill effects. Mission 31 will broaden the original Cousteau experiment by one full day, 30 more feet of saturation and will broadcast each moment on multiple channels exposing the world to the adventure, risk and mystique of what lies beneath. This will be the first time a mission of this length has taken place in the Aquarius lab, the only underwater marine habitat and lab in the world, located 9 miles off the coast of Key Largo, Fla., and operated by Florida International University.

The overarching theme for Mission 31 is the human-ocean connection within the lens of exploration and discovery. Three main topics will be highlighted throughout Mission 31: climate change and the related challenges of ocean acidification; ocean pollution with an emphasis on the effects of plastics; and overconsumption of resources with specific focus on the decline of biodiversity.