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Deep Dive Photography : An Unknown World

*** Deep Diving ***

Discover a world still unknown!

The vast majority of underwater photographers are content to explore areas close to the surface. In less than 30 meters deep for the most part. Some photographers go down from time to time up to 60 m, but they are already few. After 60 meters of depth, the number of divers completely collapses. Of these, the proportion of underwater photographer is tiny. Yes, we are very little to evolve and photograph at such depths. The small number of divers moving at these depths is mainly due to the commitment that this type of diving imposes. It is no longer a question of recreational diving but rather of technical diving, often called: Tek diving.


These dives involve a strong personal commitment, technical and financial. Above all, it will be an experienced diver to consider training on a closed circuit rebreather: The essential machine to descend to these depths. But this is not enough! After acquiring an indispensable experience with these machines in shallow depth, it will be necessary to pass a Trimix training! Once this Trimix training is acquired, the twilight zone becomes accessible. But not without consequences and without risks!


This type of diving involves the management of several gases. Some of these gases are hypoxic. it means that you can not breathe them on the surface, or close to the surface. Others are enriched with oxygen and have a breathable depth limit. Each gas is adapted to a depth range, which makes the dive complex. This type of diving involves a long training, practice and training. Each immersion requires precise planning with a decompression protocol adapted to diving. Decompression times are very long. A few minutes spent in the darkness of the depths you will be worth several hours of decompression with a rise to the surface at a controlled speed. During this lapse of time, the diver is vulnerable. It must not exceed the virtual ceiling or risk serious complications, not to say a fatal outcome. Deep diving is out of reach for everyone, deep diving photography is even less so. 


Taken between 70 and 120 meters deep (and soon more), a large number of photographs of this gallery are unpublished. Being in contact with an international and multidisciplinary group of scientists and oceanographers, these photos are the subject of studies and each shot brings a little more information on this environment which is still very poorly known.

Discover the DEEP BLUE EXPLORATION association which works for the exploration, research and conservation of the mesophotic populations of Mayotte and the Indian Ocean.

Dbe Blanc Sur Fond


Welcome to the twilight zone !!!


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Spider squat lobster
Deep coral
Shrimp and the scorpion eye
Second tombant
Deep sea shell
The Arch
A Javanese moray eel in a sponge
Sponge on mesophotic aréa
Blue Mauritius angelfish
Close up avec un requin corail
Jayakar's seahorse from the Twilight Zone;
Face to face with a Potato grouper
Mesophotic reef of Mayotte Island
Inperial shrimp under the twilight zone
Underwater cave
Deep coral sampling
Galathea on her soft coral
Panoramic view at 80 meters deep
Small squille of the depths
Shell of the Twilighjt Zone
Twilight Zone Panoramic
Mérou patate
100 meters deep
The Arch
Participatory science
Atmosphere 118 meters deep
Alone in the dark
Grey reef shark and Potato grouper
Mesophotic population
Potato grouper and Black jack
Panorama of a deep reef
Ocean Art : The watercolor coral
Cryptobiotic
Potato grouper met in the Twilight Zone
Overlooking the Twilight Zone
Panoramic view of a Twilight Zone Cave.
Mondfisch of Twilight  Zone
Orange sponges from the Twilight Zone.
Rebreather photographer
Nurse Shark in a cave
Skull of Underwater Cave
The skull of the underwater cave
Nurse Shark of  twilight Zone.
Juvenile fish
White Gobi of the Twilight Zone
Mésophotic Reef
Imperial shrimp on a holoth
White and blue eyes on the deep Darkness
The overhang of the second wall
Under the second wall
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