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The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins

11/02/2013

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1hr 31min

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Documentary

A unique human adventure and a media-worthy scientific project

STORY

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...

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Laurent Ballesta
  • Gaël Clément
  • Peter Timm
  • Emmanuel Blanche
  • Florian Holon

    Directors

  • Gil Kébaïli
  • Alexis Barbier-Bouvet

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • ARTE
  • Les Films d'Ici
  • Andromède Océanologie
  • CNRS Images

    Production Countries

  • France

LANGUAGES

  • English
  • French

Cast

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

Florian Holon

Self - Plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "

Thibault Rauby

Self - Biologiste, plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "

Marc Herbin

Self - Spécialiste de la locomotion des vertebrés, CNRS / MNHN

Mélanie Faye

Narrator (voice)

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