The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins

Synopsis

Gombessa Expedition 1 To dive for the Coelacanth is to go back in time. In 1938, when it was known only as a fossil, a Coelacanth was discovered in South Africa in a fisherman's net. This species bears witness to an evolutionary bifurcation 380 million years ago, and bears the marks of a great event: the day the fish left the ocean for the open air. Does it hold the secret to the transition to walking on land? In 2010, a marine biologist and outstanding diver, Laurent Ballesta, took the first photographs of the Coelacanth in its ecosystem. In April 2013, divers and researchers set down their equipment at the Sodwana base camp in South Africa, in the club founded by Peter Timm (who died in 2014). Six weeks of extreme diving at depths of over 120 meters, in an attempt to film the Coelacanth with a double-headed camera, collect its DNA and tag a subject with a satellite-linked beacon...

Main Cast

Laurent Ballesta

Plongeur, photographe, biologiste marin

Age : 50 | Popularity : 3%

Gaël Clément

Paléontologue au Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Paris

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Peter Timm

Plongeur, fondateur du Trimix, Afrique du Sud

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Emmanuel Blanche

Médecin hyperbare de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "

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Florian Holon

Plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "

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Thibault Rauby

Biologiste, plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "

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Yanick Gentil

Cameraman sous-marin, plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "

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Marc Herbin

Spécialiste de la locomotion des vertebrés, CNRS / MNHN

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Writer	Laurent Ballesta Gil Kébaïli
Directing	Assistant Director	Cédric Gentil
	Director	Gil Kébaïli
Camera	Underwater Camera	Yanick Gentil
	Camera Operator	Olivier Chasle Yann Rineau Gil Kébaïli
	Still Photographer	Barbara Brou
Sound	Sound	Alexis Barbier-Bouvet
	Original Music Composer	Stéphane Lopez
	Sound Mixer	Simon Dubois
	Sound Editor	Simon Dubois
Editing	Editor	Denis Batardière
	Color Grading	Rémi Berge
Production	Production Director	Angèle Le Névé
	Executive Producer	Jacques Hinstin
Crew	Medical Consultant	Emmanuel Blanche
	Legal Services	David Berdah
	Scientific Consultant	Gaël Clément Marc Herbin Thierry Decamps Hugo Dutel Régis Debruyne Jean-Benoît Charrassin Angus Paterson Kerry Sink Paul Cowley Rose Thornycroft Russel Chalmers
	Thanks	Marc A. Hayek Alain Delamuraz Alexios Kitsopoulos
	Logistics Coordinator	Cédric Gentil
Art	Graphic Designer	Charlène Letenneur
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