
Slater meets her hero, Jean-Michel Cousteau is a 17 minute documentary film about a young girl, who meets her environmental hero.
When Slater Jewell-Kemker, a MY HERO Youth Reporter, built a web page about one of heroes she had no idea that her dream to meet him might one day come true. Join Slater as she travels from a farm in Ontario, Canada, to Catalina Island, California- to meet hero, Jean-Michel Cousteau.
Spend time with Slater and Jean-Michel at his beautiful outdoor adventure camp and listen as Jean Michel describes how we are all linked to the ocean.
At the Ambassadors of the Environment Camp, Slater learns about the importance of protecting marine life as she joins Jean Michel in the ocean and snorkels for the very first time. Marine Biologist Dr. Richard Murphy takes her inside the camp’s solar powered laboratory to learn about the hidden world of the kelp bed ecosystem. Jean-Michel Cousteau share with Slater the important lesson he learned from his hero about the unwritten constitution of tomorrow.
Jean-Michel Cousteau inspires each of us to make a difference with our own life by living in a more sustainable way.
Slater's webpage on Jean-Michel Cousteau