An exciting look back at the major stages in the conquest of the underwater depths, from the end of the 1950s to Laurent Ballesta's great adventure in the summer of 2019.
Cinematography
Archival footage that makes 1960s tech look like alien civilization.
Direction
De Riberolles compresses 60 years without losing the obsessive soul.
Director
François de Riberolles
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Laurent Ballesta's 2019 'Gombessa 5' mission required inventing entirely new decompression algorithms—no human had attempted saturation diving for that duration before.
The film's French title 'Dans les abysses' deliberately echoes Cousteau's 1956 'Le Monde du silence,' positioning Ballesta as the spiritual heir France has been waiting for since Cousteau's death in 1997.
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