AQUANAUTS: Fabien Cousteau, grandson of French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, speaks during an interviewed with AFP in Islamorada, Florida, on May 31, 2014, one day before diving to live in a underwater lab for 31 days off the coast of Key Largo, Florida.
MIAMI: The grandson of famed French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau began a potentially record-breaking 31-day underwater stint off the US coast Sunday, with his mission declaring "splashdown!!!" as the expedition got underway.
Fabien Cousteau, 46, and crew dove off the state of Florida's Key Largo coast, where they will conduct experiments in a bus-sized lab named Aquarius some 65ft (20m) underwater and work with documentary filmmakers.
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