Jean-Michel Cousteau, the eldest son of the late ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, President of Ocean Futures Society and host of Ocean Adventures on NPT and PBS stations nationwide, was in Chattanooga yesterday to speak at the Tennessee Aquarium. He told attendees that although the state is not near the ocean, its rivers matter.
“The river goes in the ocean so they are the roots of the ocean,” he told the Tennessean. “We’re all connected to the ocean. We need to stop using it as a garbage can.”