After starting my career as a veterinary surgeon, I specialized in marine ecology, in
environmental economy and eco-anthropology. Since 2005, I have focused scientifically on
the role played by sharks in tropical ecosystems. Besides a classic ecological approach, I also
focus in the behaviour of great sharks and in understanding their attacks on men. I have
written many scientific articles as well as a book on the subject, and I fight for the
preservation of sharks through the written and television media, as well as through lectures to
the general public. From the early age of five, my father taught me scuba diving and
underwater hunting, and I am now a national instructor in free-diving. I have trained scores of
free-diving instructors, written several books and dozens of articles in magazines focusing on
the fauna or underwater hunting, illustrated with hundreds of pictures I took. Thanks to
underwater photography, I have discovered video and framing while free-diving, before
becoming a professional diver. I shot my first documentary in 2002, and, the same year was
rewarded with my first Palme d’Or at the international underwater film festival in Antibes.
Right after, I shot a dozen films, was a contributor to as many, either as a camera operator or
just as an actor. I am also a quite good rugby player; a pilot, a hunter, a fisherman I have been
to almost all the continents and oceans of the world; as a world traveller interested in
everything, I have garnered a huge experience; I reveal a few of these facets, within reach of
some of my contemporaries, being careful not to let my passion and my desire to share turn
into a sin of pride.
Directeur d'Etudes EPHE -
Laboratoire USR3278 CNRS-EPHE-UPVD, Université de Perpignan, France