Overview
As well as providing the subject for Luc Besson’s The Big Blue, Jacques Mayol did more than anyone to establish the sport of free diving to enormous depths without an oxygen supply. Using breathing techniques derived from yoga, he went to 50, 60, and even 100 meters—depths no one had considered to be within the bounds of human possibility. Mayol was a sportsman, a mystic, a vagabond, but above all, a man who believed in testing the limits of experience. This visually stunning tribute shows a man’s quest to be at one with the vastness of the ocean and to have no fear of the abyss within, where lurks serenity, freedom and finally, death.
Production
Anemon Productions · Les Films du Balibari · Storyline Entertainment · Impleo · ARTE GEIE · WOWOW FILMS · Greek Film Centre · ERT
Cast & Characters
Jacques Mayol
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Marc Barr
Self
Directors & Crew
Estelle Robin-You
Producer
Rea Apostolides
Producer
Ed Barreveld
Producer
Lefteris Charitos
Director
Lefteris Charitos
Writer
Yuri Averof
Producer
Screenshots & Stills
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