Blancpain-backed Gombessa V Expedition under way

Continuing its partnership with Laurent Ballesta, Blancpain is backing the fifth consecutive Gombessa expedition, a new exploration mission taking place in the Mediterranean off the French coast throughout July 2019. For the first time ever, this expedition combines saturation diving with scuba using closed circuit rebreathers. The objective is to reveal the still well-kept secrets of a Mediterranean that we believe we know well, but which remains full of mysteries. Laurent Ballesta is a marine naturalist, renowned underwater photographer and pioneer in the use of innovative diving equipment. Since 2012, Blancpain’s support within the framework of the Gombessa Expeditions project, has helped him promote a better understanding of deep ecosystems, until now inaccessible and unknown.