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DIVING IN A DROP

UNE GOUTTE D'EAU SUR UN OCEAN

Environmental - Completed 2022

Frédéric Swierczynski, one of the world's leading speleologist-divers, and Sébastien Devrient, film-maker and mountain guide, set off to dive unassisted into the world's highest lake, on the slopes of Argentina's Ojos del Salado volcano.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Environmental, Documentary
- Countries
- SWITZERLAND
- Languages
- FRENCH
- Duration
- 70 mn
- ISAN
- 0000-0005-5D22-0000-V-0000-0000-I
- Synopsis
- The same forces push the diver and the climber. In the exploration of the depths, or in the ascent of inhospitable summits, both seek ways to fully immerse themselves in it.
  
  Frédéric Swierczynski is one of the best diver-speleologists in the world. Sébastien Devrient, the director, is a mountain guide. They plan to go on a very high-altitude diving expedition. A long preparation is necessary before embarking on this project in complete autonomy.
  
  In Argentina, the Ojos Del Salado volcano is home to the highest lakes in the world. This is where they want to achieve their feat: diving unassisted to over 6,000 meters above sea level, without the tons of equipment and logistics that usually accompany this kind of expedition. Diving together, alone, respecting nature and its constraints. With simplicity and lightness as their only guides.
  
  The film follows two years of preparation and expedition, starting from the Comex Hypobaric Centre in France up to the dive in on the slopes of the Ojos Del Salado in Argentina.