The thirty-ninth edition of the World Festival of Underwater Image will take place from 31 October to 4 November, with a new team at its helm. In the continuity of the event created by Daniel Mercier, still honorary president, the FMISM will nevertheless evolve. We asked Rémi Attuyt, new director, to explain in which direction.
ENRICH THE FESTIVAL
"Nothing will change, but the festival will grow richer": Rémi Attuyt, who took office a few weeks ago, is keen on what made the festival so successful. We will continue to show films and images from all walks of life, to give voice to professionals but also to amateurs, to give pride of place to originality, enthusiasm and passion for the image. We will find the exhibitors present each year. "What we want," he specifies, "is to open up even more to the public, therefore to involve them in a more important way, which is a real challenge because we must expand the offer made to it"
A POSITIVE MESSAGE ON OUR OCEANS
Under the impetus of Philippe Vallette, now President of the event but also director of Nausicaa, the Center of the Sea of Boulogne, the festival is now a real melting pot that brings together all the energies around our planet sea: a forum where the general public, professionals and the scientific community meet, around positive initiatives to safeguard our oceans. A dimension that will pass including the multiplication of conferences, around the marine world as a whole.
ACCELERATING THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION
International Network of Marine Protected Areas, Oceans Forum, UNESCO: many institutions that must now have their place in the festival. Because in order to safeguard our underwater heritage, the only viable solution seems to be to multiply the common actions: whether legislation, safeguarding measures or awareness campaigns, only global cooperation may have positive effects.
CONNECTING A NEW PUBLIC
In recent years, the general public has been less likely to walk the aisles of the festival. And that's one of the challenges the new team wants to meet. The goal of the next edition is both to bring the public Marseille, but also to attract lovers of the marine world from elsewhere. By relying on the geographical location of Marseille, the bet is achievable. And the price of entries will drop significantly this year, to go from 15 to 9 euros, and 7,5 euros in reduced price.
THEME 2012: THE ISLANDS
This year, the theme for the festival is "The Islands". They are often, in all their diversity, from the Atlantic to the Pacific or the Indian Ocean, the symbol of the beauty and the fragility of our oceans: to know them, to protect them, to help them to face the threats that weigh now on them is very exactly in agreement with the message that wants from now on, even more than before, to make pass the Festival.
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@ Marie-Aline: What a pleasure to read your post! there will still be talk in the cottages (see the post from Franck Tellosa and the answers)!
That said, most of the hot-water dives are Padi structures and the GO-Padi service on board, change group every week and I think he completely mocks our advice.
Even arguing as you did,
- at best, I got the sympathetic demeanor of the occasion, a polite listening, and the response that goes with " yes, but you understand, if there is a problem, it will spoil everyone's holidays because we will have to return ", what is true.
- And at worst, the threat of depriving everyone by anchoring on sites whose bottom will be 20 meters, pointed out at the faulty one, with the conclusion, "Be ok if you don't want to be the person everyone hates - be quiet if you don't want to be the person everyone hates; first half hour on board, welcome speech!
At the question " Do you have any questions "," Yes ! Does the Padi course have a totalitarian diving specificity ?! »Each having marked his territory, during the stay we exchanged a little nod to say hello and we were carefully avoided. Even if there is safety, serenity (buzzword!) And the well-being of everyone during the stay, I found this presentation, to say the least, out of place and a great lack of tact. . And during the same stay, seeing an advance Padi giving air to a freediver at 5 meters, I concluded that they preferred pulmonary overpressure to decompression sickness!
I don't mind being bothered with diving without decoration, but I expect the DP - since he was present - that he intervenes and that he explains the why and how, to the diver who gave air, which was not the case. Apart from the currency side, what do they learn?
The more I meet Padi instructors, the more I find them painful and formatted, their clients-divers being products to manage (I am schematizing). The little that I saw: I do not trust them. While cruising, I ask where the oxy is, I want to know how the suitcase opens, what's in it, and I keep the aspirin and water handy.
The exception justifies the rule, I know some excellent, educators, intelligent, instinctive, with whom I got on well and who showed us their favorite site, Michel in Moorea, Gabriel in Filitheyo - Maldives, Didier in Playa del Carmen and Guido in Mabul / pompom. And as luck would have it, some have MF1 or BEES1 training. Surprising no?