Adventure Ocean Quest

screenable online: 5 episodes

One of the great challenges we face in exploring the oceans is to get close to marine life without disturbing it. Enter freediver Frederic Buyle, whose noiseless diving lets him approach even shy animals. Buyle, who can descend 50 meters on a single breath and stay there for up to four minutes, teams up with underwater cameraman Christian Petron (The Big Blue). Whether in Polynesia, Mexico or the Mediterranean, they work closely with scientists and locals to find answers to the mysteries of our oceans.

French Polynesia’s great hammerhead sharks are extraordinarily shy animals and still pose many questions, not least where they go during their annual migration. Freediver Frederic Buyle and cameraman…

Humpback whales have come back from the brink of extinction, but they are still difficult to approach in the water and their behaviour and vocalisations pose many unsolved questions. Dr. Michael…

Many of the Mediterranean’s coastal waters around harbour cities like Marseille were polluted mercilessly in the past, and much of the local reef life died. Now there is change in the air: pollution…

The atoll of Fakarava in Polynesia is a true underwater paradise with an extraordinary diversity of wildlife. Frederic’s freediving mission here is very ambitious: he wants to investigate the atoll’s…

The great white shark has a fearsome reputation and diving with them is definitely a risky business. But Frederic wants to show a different side of the infamous great white: Mexican zoologist…

Fragile Mediterranean (Episode 3)

24 Hours on the Reef (Episode 5)

The great white Sharks of Guadalupe (Episode 4)