GREAT REPORT – We accompanied the team with a documentary that aims to change our perception of sharks by focusing on three females preparing to become young mothers.
« You’ll see, you never forget your first time. Alexandre Soullier’s complicit and sly smile disappears behind his mask as he adjusts his snorkel and jumps into the water. An unforgettable first time? Maybe, because in the minds of laymen like us, the first encounter with a shark in open water is supposed to be the last. We are off Jupiter, Florida. Alexandre (the producer of the film Closer to the Sharks) begins the very last dive of filming – which will have taken more than three years, from Australia to the Galápagos. In front of him, lower in the water, photographer and freediver Fred Buyle. This Belgian diver who set four apnea records between 1995 and 2000, in addition to being the eighth Homo sapiens to have crossed the 100 meter mark, is a technical advisor on the set.
In the distance, the coasts of Florida appear only as a thin black line preventing the cloudless sky from plunging into the crystalline Atlantic of the Bahamas. Heart pounding, blood pounding our temples, vision reduced and a little blurry, we approach the edge of the boat and the azure shimmering in the sun. Without thinking, against all common sense…
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