The Big Blue

- I know you... - We just met a few minutes ago - In the lake? - No, in the hut!

Jacques Mayol - The most famous free-diver in the world - was examined by doctors under his years as an active diver and they found that during his dives his pulse slowed down from 60 to 25 beats per minute to reduce the lack of oxygen, just as dolphins do.

Eric Serra

"I have been trying to understand why I have been so attracted by the sea since my childhood, although my parents had nothing to do with that (my father was actually an architect). I have been looking for myself, and that may be all the meaning of life: to understand oneself. What have we be looking for? Know oneself and achieve happiness. But what is happiness then? It's a state of harmony with oneself. Being in harmony with oneself is certainly the most important thing in life. I feel in harmony with myself only when I am alone in Nature, especially in the sea together with mammals like dolphins or whales."

"I considered free-diving at the beginning as nothing more than a sport activity. But after the strong relationship I developed with a she-dolphin at Miami Seaquarium, I felt that in order to dolphinize myself more, i had to transcend myself and try and go beyond my physical capacities. I had to try and understand the physiological and psychological mechanisms that made me wanting to recall what I would call my "aquatic past". There is no doubt for me than Human beings origins are found in water environments. And yet, there is no need to go back that far. Just think about the 9 months you spent in the belly of your mother. Intra-uterine environment too is the perfect water world. What actually happens during those 9 months? It is paradoxical that we don't keep the slightest memory of this aquatic part of our life. And it is a unique form of life, not to be compared with fish that breathe in the water, or water mammals that perform free diving. Human embryo is having an aquatic life of no equivalent in the outside world." An interview with Jaques Mayol

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