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...
Unfortunately the movie The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins is not yet available on HBO Max.
Directing | Gil Kébaïli | Director |
Writing | Gil Kébaïli | Writer |
Production | Jacques Hinstin | Executive Producer |
Crew | Alexios Kitsopoulos | Thanks |
Crew | Gaël Clément | Scientific Consultant |
Crew | Rose Thornycroft | Scientific Consultant |
Crew | Marc Herbin | Scientific Consultant |
Crew | Régis Debruyne | Scientific Consultant |
Crew | Alain Delamuraz | Thanks |
Crew | Hugo Dutel | Scientific Consultant |
Crew | Angus Paterson | Scientific Consultant |
Crew | Russel Chalmers | Scientific Consultant |
Crew | Marc A. Hayek | Thanks |
Crew | Cédric Gentil | Logistics Coordinator |
Sound | Simon Dubois | Sound Editor |
Crew | Paul Cowley | Scientific Consultant |
Crew | David Berdah | Legal Services |
Crew | Emmanuel Blanche | Medical Consultant |
Crew | Thierry Decamps | Scientific Consultant |
Crew | Kerry Sink | Scientific Consultant |
Camera | Gil Kébaïli | Camera Operator |
Camera | Barbara Brou | Still Photographer |
Crew | Jean-Benoît Charrassin | Scientific Consultant |
Art | Charlène Letenneur | Graphic Designer |
Camera | Olivier Chasle | Camera Operator |
Sound | Simon Dubois | Sound Mixer |
Sound | Alexis Barbier-Bouvet | Sound |
Writing | Laurent Ballesta | Writer |
Editing | Denis Batardière | Editor |
Sound | Stéphane Lopez | Original Music Composer |
Production | Angèle Le Névé | Production Director |
Camera | Yann Rineau | Camera Operator |
Editing | Rémi Berge | Color Grading |
Directing | Cédric Gentil | Assistant Director |
Camera | Yanick Gentil | Underwater Camera |