Frenzy

A rare look at the violent, chaotic collision of hungry sharks and breeding groupers in a French Polynesian channel

Laurent Ballesta and his team built a semicircular rig of 32 synchronized cameras to capture this “bullet time” video sequence of sharks descending on a grouper at Fakarava Atoll. This visual technique allows events to be slowed down while the camera moves at normal speed.
700 SHARKS INTO THE DARK, a film directed by Luc Marescot. Produced by ARTE, Le cinquième rêve, Andromède Océanologie, Les gens bien production, Filmin Tahiti and CNRS Images. This video was made during the Gombessa IV Expedition .©ARTE/GombessaExpedition2017
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