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.

The Deepest Breath
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7.6/10

Deepsea Challenge 3D
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6.6/10

Last Breath
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7.5/10

Deep Blue
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6.8/10

Dolphin Reef
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6.9/10

Chasing Coral
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7.7/10

Life in a Day
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7.2/10

Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds
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6.9/10

My Octopus Teacher
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7.9/10

Ghosts of the Abyss
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6.8/10

Cameraperson
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6.7/10

Ocean with David Attenborough
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8.1/10

I Am Heath Ledger
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7.4/10

Love, Marilyn
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6.6/10

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7.9/10

Powaqqatsi
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7.3/10

Leviathan
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6.5/10

Being James Bond
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7.8/10

Blackfish
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7.8/10

Deep Sea 3D
2006
6.6/10
Don't Crack Under Pressure
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6.6/10