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The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins (2013)

ALL 11/02/2013 (fr) Documentary 91 Min
  • Release
    11/02/2013
  • Production
    ARTE, Les Films d'Ici, Andromède Océanologie, CNRS Images
  • Rotten tomato
    84%
  • Original title
    Le Cœlacanthe, plongée vers nos origines
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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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...

  1. Gil Kébaïli

    Director

  2. Story

  4. Producer



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  1. Laurent Ballesta

    Plongeur, photographe, biologiste marin

  2. Gaël Clément

    Paléontologue au Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Paris

  3. Peter Timm

    Plongeur, fondateur du Trimix, Afrique du Sud

  4. Emmanuel Blanche

    Médecin hyperbare de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "

  5. Florian Holon

    Plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "

  6. Thibault Rauby

    Biologiste, plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "

  7. Yanick Gentil

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

  8. Marc Herbin

    Spécialiste de la locomotion des vertebrés, CNRS / MNHN

  9. Kerry Sink

    Chercheur au The South African Institute Aquatic Biodiversity

  10. Cédric Gentil

    Logisticien de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "

  11. Mélanie Faye

    Narratrice (voix)

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Casts : 11 , Crews : 35

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The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins (2013) 91 Min

ALL 11/02/2013 (fr)
Documentary
  • Release 11/02/2013
  • Production
    ARTE, Les Films d'Ici, Andromède Océanologie, CNRS Images
  • Original title Le Cœlacanthe, plongée vers nos origines
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

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...

  1. Gil Kébaïli

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Denis Batardière

    Editor

  4. Producer



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