Nuclear Sharks

(2016)

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Synopsis

Grandson to legendary underwater explorer and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau, Philippe Cousteau, and his wife Ashlan Gorse Cousteau travel with marine biologist Luke Tipple to Bikini Atoll to explore a marine environment once destroyed by nuclear testing during the Cold War. The nuclear devices detonated across the atoll vaporized two islands and destroyed everything living.  Today, nature has proved resilient and restored the marine ecosystem, re-populating the atoll with reef sharks.   But since reef sharks are considered non-migratory, where did they come from?  Tagging shows that grey reef sharks are capable of traveling much longer distances than previously thought, and we may have discovered just how these sharks repopulated Bikini Atoll after the nuclear blasts. 

Cast

Philippe Cousteau