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The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins(2013)
Status: Released
Date: 2013-11-02
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5 Votes
Time: 1h 31m
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...
Languages: English, French.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies: 
Andromède Océanologie
Movie: The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins
Top 10 Billed Cast
Laurent Ballesta
Self - Plongeur, photographe, biologiste marin
Peter Timm
Self - Plongeur, fondateur du Trimix, Afrique du Sud
Thibault Rauby
Self - Biologiste, plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Yanick Gentil
Self - Cameraman sous-marin, plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Cédric Gentil
Self - Logisticien de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Video Trailer The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins
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Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep01 - - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep02 - - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep03 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep04 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep05 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le coelacanthe - Ep06 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep07 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep08 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le coelacanthe - Ep09 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep10 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le coelacanthe - Ep11 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep12 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep13 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep14 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep15 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep16 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep17 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep18 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep19 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep20 - Behind the Scenes
Gombessa I - Rencontre avec le Coelacanthe - Ep21 - Behind the Scenes
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