Wearing a Fifty Fathoms diver's watch, marine scientist and underwater photographer Laurent Ballesta came face to face with the legendary cœlacanth, locally known as gombessa, at a depth of 120m under the South African sea.
The Gombessa Expedition I in 2013 succeeded in finding the rare creature, which is a living proof of the transition from a backboned fish to the earliest four-legged vertebrate land animals.
