{"id":39552,"date":"2020-09-29T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/2020\/10\/mediterranean-heroes-laurent-ballesta-a-sea-explorer-for-modern-times\/"},"modified":"2020-11-22T22:30:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T21:30:28","slug":"mediterranean-heroes-laurent-ballesta-a-sea-explorer-for-modern-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/2020\/09\/mediterranean-heroes-laurent-ballesta-a-sea-explorer-for-modern-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediterranean Heroes: Laurent Ballesta, a sea explorer for modern times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p><strong>At once artist and scientist, Laurent Ballesta knew from the very beginning that the sea would be his one true love. In honour of his latest documentary, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/2020\/09\/planete-mediterranee-film-monacos-princely-family-discover-the-unknown-depths-of-the-mediterranean\/\">Plan\u00e8te M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e<\/a>&#8220;, Monaco Tribune interviewed Mr. Ballesta about his childhood in Montpellier, his career and what the future holds. <\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p>Time goes by slowly on the long stretches of sand near Montpellier, where Laurent Ballesta and his family spend summer\u2019s hottest days. To kill time, young Laurent starts exploring the seabed with his brother. The siblings fancy themselves modern-day Jacques Cousteau, the French naval officer turned documentary film maker, who pioneered marine conversation. \u201cIt was the thrill of transgression, you know,\u201d he explains. \u201cMy parents had so many preconceptions about the sea. \u201cDon\u2019t swim if you can\u2019t touch the bottom, watch out for jellyfish, crabs will pinch you, if you&#8217;ve eaten don&#8217;t swim within three hours,\u201d they used to tell us&#8230; All bullshit!\u201d It wasn\u2019t long before the supposedly threatening sea turned into a lifelong passion. \u201cI\u2019ve often complained about not having had support. However, looking back, it was a great learning opportunity. My brother and I learnt everything on our own. I still remember the first time I figured out how to use a snorkel,\u201d he recalls.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cIf you like diving in Palavas-les-Flots, you\u2019re sure to like everywhere else\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/laurentballesta.com\/projet-mediterranee\/\">Laurent Ballesta<\/a> never doubted his life\u2019s calling. \u201cWhen you\u2019re a kid, you don\u2019t need much. With 50 cm high water and a couple crabs, you feel like you\u2019re on some kind of exceptional adventure,\u201d he says. After 30 years, the feeling of excitement is still there. \u00a0\u201cThe sense of thrill hasn\u2019t changed. Let&#8217;s dare to go dive 120 metres deep to discover the coelacanth\u2019s cave. I think of it like some kind of drug. To keep getting the same effect, you need to constantly increase the dosage,\u201d he says. But growing up in Montpellier, his passion for diving was against the odds. \u201cMontpellier is not Polynesia, Marseille\u2019s calanques, or Villefranche-sur-Mer\u2019s seabed. If you like diving in Palavas-les-Flots (a beach near Montpellier, ed.), you\u2019re sure to like it everywhere else!\u201d he says.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Photography as a vocation, the sea as a passion <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><p>A specific memory, which occurred sometime before his 18th<sup>\u00a0<\/sup>birthday, has stayed with Laurent Ballesta. \u201cWe were looking for a shipwreck and instead ended up face to face with a school of basking sharks, the smallest of which was seven metres long,\u201d he explains. It was then and there that Ballesta found his vocation: marine photography.\u00a0 More inclined to literature than science, Laurent Ballesta studied biology because, and once again inspired by Commandant Cousteau, he wanted to become a marine biologist. He also perfects his photographic skills, so as to bring back to the surface what us mere mortals can only dream of seeing. \u201cI suffer from chronic dissatisfaction. I wanted to prolong the period of contemplation \u2013 diving is really short. Sooner or later you need to swim back up to the surface,\u201d he says.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"924\" height=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/coelacanthe_laurent_ballesta.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/coelacanthe_laurent_ballesta.jpg 924w, https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/coelacanthe_laurent_ballesta-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 924px) 100vw, 924px\" \/><figcaption>Laurent Ballesta and the coelacanth<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A 12-year-long collaboration with Nicolas Hulot <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a young adult, Ballesta doesn\u2019t fantasise of working in exotic destinations. His ambitions are measured: he dreams of a protected marine area in a beautiful setting. However, as his network expands, Ballesta meets another man who is as passionate about nature as he is: French journalist and environmental activist, Nicolas Hulot. \u201cWe were supposed to collaborate for a month or two, but instead ended up working together for 12 years,\u201d he tells us. Thanks to Nicolas Hulot, Ballesta joins the TV show Ushuaia Nature as a marine scientific advisor. The show is aired on TF1, France\u2019s most popular channel. And in his free time, Laurent Ballesta continues to prefect his photographic skills.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">28 days underwater between Marseille and Monaco <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Laurent Ballesta\u2019s track record is impressive. He\u2019s the youngest photographer to have his work exhibited on the gates of the Luxembourg gardens in Paris. He is also the author of the deepest photograph ever to be shot by a diver &#8211; a picture taken at 190 m below sea level off the coast of Nice \u2013 and the first person to photograph a living Coelacanth fish. To photograph the Coelacanth, Ballesta dived 120 m deep, off the coast of South Africa. The <i>Commandant Cousteau<\/i> of modern times is still going strong.<\/p>&#13;\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2019, along with divers Antonin Guilbert, Yanick Gentil and Thibault Rauby, Laurent Ballesta spent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/2019\/07\/28-days-underwater-between-marseille-and-monaco\/\">28 days underwater<\/a>. The biologists explored the stretch of sea from Marseille to Monaco, in a 5m2 underwater construction site at 13 bar pression, the amount of pressure equivalent to being 120m underwater. The \u201cGombessa Expedition\u201d was fully documented in a documentary shot by Ballesta himself, titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/2020\/09\/planete-mediterranee-film-monacos-princely-family-discover-the-unknown-depths-of-the-mediterranean\/\">Plan\u00e8te M\u00e9diterran\u00e9e<\/a>\u201d.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What next?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><p>\u201cI need to dive. It\u2019s not like cycling. When you stop diving you lose so many automatisms and reflexes. I need to be in the sea on a regular basis,\u201d he says. It would seem that Laurent Ballesta is far from done with the Mediterranean. There are rumours that his next mission will be a saturation dive off the coast of Corsica. \u201cThere are so many mysteries to be solved. Perfectly circular formations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monaco-tribune.com\/en\/2020\/07\/the-great-barrier-reef-laid-bare-at-the-oceanographic-museum-of-monaco\/\">coral<\/a> rings have been described but never explained. We must take up the challenge,\u201d he says. 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