The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins (2013)
Overview
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...
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Directed By
Gil Kébaïli
Crew
Gil Kébaïli
Gil Kébaïli
Jacques Hinstin
Angus Paterson
Emmanuel Blanche
Marc Herbin
Hugo Dutel
Kerry Sink
Rose Thornycroft
Régis Debruyne
Marc A. Hayek
Charlène Letenneur
Gaël Clément
Russel Chalmers
Simon Dubois
Alain Delamuraz
Thierry Decamps
Alexios Kitsopoulos
Gil Kébaïli
David Berdah
Paul Cowley
Barbara Brou
Cédric Gentil
Jean-Benoît Charrassin
Simon Dubois
Rémi Berge
Cédric Gentil
Yann Rineau
Yanick Gentil
Stéphane Lopez
Laurent Ballesta
Angèle Le Névé
Olivier Chasle
Denis Batardière
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Laurent Ballesta
Self - Plongeur, photographe, biologiste marin
Gaël Clément
Self - Paléontologue au Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Paris
Peter Timm
Self - Plongeur, fondateur du Trimix, Afrique du Sud
Emmanuel Blanche
Self - Médecin hyperbare de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Florian Holon
Self - Plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Thibault Rauby
Self - Biologiste, plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Yanick Gentil
Self - Cameraman sous-marin, plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Marc Herbin
Self - Spécialiste de la locomotion des vertebrés, CNRS / MNHN
Kerry Sink
Self - Chercheur au The South African Institute Aquatic Biodiversity
Cédric Gentil
Self - Logisticien de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Mélanie Faye
Narrator (voice)