Gombessa I
A meeting with the Coelacanth
2013
Laurent Ballesta's Gombessa project has completed 5 major scientific expeditions studying some of the rarest, most elusive marine creatures on Earth. In 2013, on Gombessa I, the team met perhaps the most legendary ocean creature of all: the “living fossil” and survivor of 400 million years that is the coelacanth. Locally known as Gombessa, this legendary species gave its name to the Gombessa Expeditions.
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