{"id":5906,"date":"2014-01-10T23:43:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T22:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/petitesbullesdailleurs\/?p=5906"},"modified":"2024-10-08T17:47:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T15:47:32","slug":"ballesta-gombessa-coelacanthe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/ballesta-gombessa-coelacanthe-20140110\/","title":{"rendered":"Diving with Laurent Ballesta to Photograph the Oldest Fish in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

I won't be at the Dive Show this weekend. But I had the pleasure to interview the sponsor of this 2014 edition, the underwater photographer and naturalist Laurent Ballesta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

He went diving with the oldest fish in the world...<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I rarely mix up my personal posts on this blog and my job as a journalist at\u00a0Ouest-France<\/em><\/a>. Except when the theme of one of my articles for the newspaper is related to... diving!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After my meeting with Fran\u00e7ois Sarano and Jacques Perrin at the beginning of 2010\u00a0for the release of the film\u00a0Oceans<\/em><\/a>this time I had the pleasure to interview the naturalist diver and photographer Laurent Ballesta<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The article appeared this Friday, April 10, 2014 in the evening edition<\/em><\/a>the new digital newspaper launched by Ouest-France<\/em>for which I work. This article is unfortunately no longer available online, but I have made a PDF version, which you can read by clicking on the link or image below: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My interview with Laurent Ballesta appeared in the evening edition<\/em> from Ouest-France<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The man who photographed the coelacanths<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Laurent Ballesta is the man who photographed the mythical coelacanth<\/a>the oldest fish in the world. It was in South Africa, in 2010 and in 2013, during dives to 120 meters deep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Laurent Ballesta's book on his encounter with the coelacanth, with a preface by Nicolas Hulot (Androm\u00e8de editions).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He has just published a book, with a preface by Nicolas Hulot (his former partner in the TV shows Ushua\u00efa<\/em>), on his extraordinary expeditions. It is entitled Gombess<\/em><\/a>a: meeting with the coelacant<\/a><\/em>, from the local name of the famous fish. A film will also be broadcast on Arte in May 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laurent Ballesta will be present this weekend at the Salon de la plong\u00e9e 2014, at the Parc-Expo of the Porte de Versailles in Paris. On the program: exhibition, signing sessions, conferences (Saturday at 4pm and Sunday at 2pm). If you are there, these are really moments not to be missed... <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biologist and photographer, this specialist of deep rebreather dives talks about his quest for the coelacanth with a communicative passion: \"These are the most complicated dives of my life, the most committed, the most difficult, <\/strong>he confided in me during the interview I did with him. You experience 30 incredible minutes with the animal, in 120-150 meters of water, and those minutes are worth an eternity...\" <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

An eternity that is costly... He and the other divers of the team still have to go through 4 hours and 30 minutes of decompression before they can return to the surface. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below is an excerpt from the Gombessa I expedition documentary, later posted on YouTube: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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