Dolphin Man

Beyond simply providing the subject for Luc Besson's The Big Blue, Jacques Mayol helped redefine free diving by pushing to immense depths without an oxygen supply. Employing breathing techniques drawn from yoga, he descended to 50, 60, and even 100 meters—levels once thought unreachable by humans. Mayol was a sportsman, a mystic, a wanderer, but above all a man who believed in testing the boundaries of experience. This visually arresting tribute chronicles a journey to merge with the vastness of the sea and to banish fear of the abyss within, where serenity, freedom, and ultimately death reside.