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You and three guests will be treated to a private lunch and a 3D IMAX movie in Los Angeles with Ocean Explorers Jean-Michel Cousteau and Holly Lohuis! 

Jean-Michel Cousteau and co-Star Holly Lohuis will be your personal guides to Jean-Michel's latest movie Secret Ocean 3D playing at the California Science Center IMAX theater in LA. 

After the movie you will have the chance to ask Jean-Michel Cousteau and Holly Lohuis questions about the film and ocean exploration over lunch.

About Jean-Michel Cousteau:

Explorer. Environmentalist. Educator. Film Producer. For more than four decades, Jean-Michel Cousteau has dedicated himself and his vast experience to communicate to people of all nations and generations his love and concern for our water planet.

Since first being “thrown overboard” by his father at the age of seven with newly invented SCUBA gear on his back, Jean-Michel has been exploring the ocean realm. The son of ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau, Jean-Michel has investigated the world’s oceans aboard Calypso and Alcyone for much of his life. Honoring his heritage, Jean-Michel founded Ocean Futures Society in 1999 to carry on this pioneering work.

Ocean Futures Society, a non-profit marine conservation and education organization, serves as a “Voice for the Ocean” by communicating in all media the critical bond between people and the sea and the importance of wise environmental policy. As Ocean Future’s spokesman, Jean-Michel serves as an impassioned diplomat for the environment, reaching out to the public through a variety of media.

He has produced over 80 films, received the Emmy, the Peabody Award, the 7 d’Or, and the Cable Ace Award. In 1989, he became a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times where his articles appeared in over sixty newspapers worldwide. Reaching millions of people globally through Ocean Futures Society, Jean-Michel continues to produce environmentally oriented adventure programs and television specials, public service announcements, multi-media programs for schools, web-based marine content, books, articles for magazines, newspaper columns, and public lectures.

In 2006, Jean-Michel’s initiative to protect the Northwest Hawaiian Islands took him to The White House where he screened his PBS-KQED documentary, Voyage to Kure, for President George W. Bush. The President was inspired and in June 2006, he declared the 1,200-mile chain of islands a Marine National Monument—at the time; the largest marine protected areas in the world.

About Holly Lohuis:

Holly Lohuis is a marine biologist and educator with Ocean Futures Society, and has been diving the world’s oceans with Jean-Michel Cousteau and his team since 1996. She has appeared in many of Jean-Michel Cousteau’s documentaries, including co-star of a new IMAX film, Secret Ocean 3D, launched in 2015. She is also featured as a diver and on camera biologist in the eleven hours of the PBS series, Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures.

With a degree in aquatic biology from UC Santa Barbara and experience in the ocean realm around the world, she is an eloquent and popular speaker on the beauty and crises facing our water planet. Holly is also a PADI Dive Master and Open Water SCUBA Instructor.

As a member of Cousteau’s expedition team for over 20 years, Holly acts as a liaison between the team and scientists and is responsible for confirming the factual accuracy of Ocean Futures Society’s documentaries and publications. She has worked full-time with Jean-Michel Cousteau’s marine conservation organization, Ocean Futures Society, since 2002.

About Secret Ocean 3D:

Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of ocean pioneer Jacques Cousteau, offers a breakthrough look at a secret world within the ocean that is perhaps the biggest story of all—that the smallest life in the sea is the mightiest force on which we all depend. Alongside marine biologist Holly Lohuis, he invites viewers to dive into this whole new world that will leave them in awe of the beauty and diversity of the oceans – the source of all life on our planet – and inspire an even stronger desire to protect what they have either seen for the first time or perhaps re-discovered along the journey.

Narrated by renowned oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, “Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Secret Ocean 3D” introduces audiences to over 30 species, illuminating behaviors captured for the first time thanks to the development of new tools that allow underwater filming in 3D, ultra-HD 5K, slow motion, macro, and with motion control, and takes them to remarkable and vibrant environments such as the Bahamas, Fiji, and Bimini.

Item Special Note

We expect all winning bidders and their guests to conduct themselves appropriately when attending an experience won during Ocean Futures Society's holiday auction. Polite manners and respect for the generous donors and adherence to any rules or parameters are a must.

• Lunch and movie must take place on a Monday-Friday
• To be scheduled at a mutually agreed upon date, based on the donors' availability.
• Additional blackout dates may apply
• Experience must be taken between January 12, 2017 - May 12, 2017
• You will be joining other movie goers, however Jean-Michel Cousteau and Holly Lohuis will be your personal guides.
• Lunch is included with this experience.
• Alcoholic beverages are not included with lunch.
• Travel & Accomadations are not included.
• There are no refunds on this experience.