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The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins (2013)

Nov 02, 2013 Documentary 1h 31m
79%
User Score
8.0/10

A unique human adventure and a media-worthy scientific project

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...

Gil Kébaïli
Writer
Laurent Ballesta
Writer

Top Billed Cast

Laurent Ballesta
Laurent Ballesta

Self - Plongeur, photographe, biologiste marin
Gaël Clément
Gaël Clément

Self - Paléontologue au Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Paris
Peter Timm
Peter Timm

Self - Plongeur, fondateur du Trimix, Afrique du Sud
Emmanuel Blanche
Emmanuel Blanche

Self - Médecin hyperbare de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Florian Holon
Florian Holon

Self - Plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Thibault Rauby
Thibault Rauby

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

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

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

Self - Chercheur au The South African Institute Aquatic Biodiversity

Full Cast & Crew

Media

Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep01 -
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep01 -
Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep04
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep04
Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep05
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep05
Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le coelacanthe - Ep09
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le coelacanthe - Ep09
Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep12
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep12
Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep13
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep13
Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep21
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep21
Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep02 -
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep02 -
Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep03
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep03
Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le coelacanthe - Ep06
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le coelacanthe - Ep06
Behind the Scenes
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