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The Coelacanth, a dive into our origins 

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...
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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...

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Genre:Documentary
Directed By:Gil Kébaïli
Written By:Gil Kébaïli, Laurent Ballesta
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Runtime:91 minutes
Studio:ARTE, Les Films d'Ici, Andromède Océanologie, CNRS Images

Cast

Director

Gil Kébaïli

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Laurent Ballesta

Self - Plongeur, photographe, biologiste marin

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Gaël Clément

Self - Paléontologue au Muséum d’histoire naturelle de Paris

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Peter Timm

Self - Plongeur, fondateur du Trimix, Afrique du Sud

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Emmanuel Blanche

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

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Florian Holon

Self - Plongeur de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "

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Thibault Rauby

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

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Yanick Gentil

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

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Marc Herbin

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

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Kerry Sink

Self - Chercheur au The South African Institute Aquatic Biodiversity

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Cédric Gentil

Self - Logisticien de l'expédition " Gombessa 1 "

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Mélanie Faye

Narrator (voice)

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