2011 • 24' • French & English
Director(s): Sabine Quindoux • Producer(s): Grand Angle Productions • Coproducer(s): France Télévisions • Format(s): HD
When she arrived in Melbourne, the biggest city on the south coast of Australia, to meet Rob Torelli, 7 times Australian free-diving spearfishing champion, Sabine Quindou never imagined the fear she would have to face. When not training, Rob fishes for abalones, a shellfish known in Europe under the name of ormeau. The two species fished in this part of the Indian Ocean, greenlip and blacklip, are worth their weight in gold on the markets of Asia. Rob, who readily admits he is “obsessed by the sea” wanted to pass on his passion to Sabine by initiating her into his profession. The problem: Rob dives in a setting that is sumptuous but dangerous, at the foot of the cliffs of Lady Julia Percy Island, a territory he shares with the biggest seal colony in the country and their natural predators, the sharks.
