This documentary is a tribute to all divers, who tirelessly, sometimes at the risk of their lives, push the limits of scuba diving.
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Pascal Bernabé is the one of all who has gone the furthest.
Through the story of his record, “330 meters under the sea” tells the story of ultra-deep diving.
It was a coincidence that in 1996 propelled Pascal Bernabé to the forefront. Until then a cave diver, little known to the general public, he was the only one to agree to try to bring back two reconnaissance robots stuck at a depth of 176 meters at La Fontaine in Vaucluse.
A year later, driven by this success and a new taste for depth, Pascal will seek to reach 200 meters. That day, a slide took him to a depth of 250 meters.
Pascal enters the very exclusive club of ultra-deep explorers, following in the footsteps of his models Sheck Exley and Jim Bowden.
Little by little, the desire and the idea of becoming the deepest diver in the world arose for Pascal. He wants to become the first autonomous diver below 300 meters.
These exploits would not have been possible without scientists and industrialists also seeking to send men very deep. Experiments simulate the human limits of diving, by having test divers breathe experimental gas mixtures, because beyond 60 meters it is impossible for a diver to breathe with air.
In the USA in 1982, Atlantis III became the deepest simulated dive at a depth of 686m by breathing a mixture of helium and oxygen. Unmatched record for 10 years until 1992, with HydraX. A single Comex diver, Théo Mavrostomos, will endure 701 meters while breathing hydrogen gas.
Scuba divers are taking these extreme diving techniques and breaking down the barriers.
John Benett will be the first diver below 300 meters in 2001 after an 8-hour dive which almost cost him his life. Victim of a decompression accident during the ascent, he was shaken for 8 hours by vomiting and dizziness. But he managed to reach the surface alive.
Pascal's objective is now beyond 300 meters, which will complicate his task and that of his team led by François Brun.
Other divers continue to push the limits.
In 2005, Dave Shaw dived with a rebreather to a depth never before reached with this equipment. On the occasion of this record of more than 271 in a cave in South Africa he found the body of a diver who had disappeared ten years previously. From then on he only had one idea in mind: to bring the body back to the family. In trying to bring back this body, Shaw will lose his life.
A few months later, South African Nuno Gomes dived to 318m meters.
Finally, on July 5, 2005, Pascal will reach 330 meters.
At this depth, an accident almost cost him his life, a lamp exploded and tore his eardrum, making the 8 hours of decompression close to torture.
With the notoriety brought by this record, Pascal left his job as a teacher to devote himself entirely to technical diving.
Ahmed Gamal Gabr, an Egyptian combat diver, took up the torch and in 2014 reached the depth of 332.35 m.
Director: Laurent Mini
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5 окт 2024
