The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins
IMDB:
8.2
Released
11/2/2013
Duration
1h 31m
Genre
Documentary
Country
France
Cast
Laurent Ballesta, Gaël Clément, Peter Timm
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...
The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins
IMDB:
8.2Released
11/2/2013
Genre
Documentary
Cast
Laurent Ballesta, Gaël Clément, Peter Timm
Duration
1h 31m
Country
France
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...
Cast
Self - Plongeur, photographe, biologiste marin
Laurent Ballesta
Self - Paléontologue au Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Paris
Gaël Clément
Self - Plongeur, fondateur du Trimix, Afrique du Sud
Peter Timm
Self - Médecin hyperbare de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Emmanuel Blanche
Self - Plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Florian Holon
Self - Biologiste, plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Thibault Rauby
Self - Cameraman sous-marin, plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Yanick Gentil
Self - Spécialiste de la locomotion des vertebrés, CNRS / MNHN
Marc Herbin
Self - Chercheur au The South African Institute Aquatic Biodiversity
Kerry Sink
Self - Logisticien de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "
Cédric Gentil
Narrator (voice)
