Dolphin Man

As well as providing the subject for Luc Bessons 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 metersdepths 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 mans 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