Desafio Extremo: Buceo Artico
March 4th, 2010 | By Nora Sawyer | Filed in ACTIVITIES, Client Reports, Diving, Filmmakers, Films, TRIPS
Long-time readers of this blog might remember this post, where I mentioned that expedition Expedition Manager Tom Lennartz was up on the ice near Baffin Island with a then-unnamed Spanish film crew.
Well, the footage from that expedition — part of the series Desafio Extremo, or Extreme Challenge — is now online. And it’s pretty spectacular, capturing both the beauty and danger of diving beneath the Arctic ice.
Check out the videos online here, and if you read Spanish (or feel like cheating, as I did, with a free online translator) you can read Jesús Calleja’s account of the adventure on his blog, which really captures the adrenaline of piloting a snowmobile across the sea ice, as well as the combination of on-the-ice flexibility and strong infrastructure needed to pull off a filming expedition to the Arctic!
Here’s a teaser for the show. Visit the Desafino Extremo site for more photos and footage of the adventure!
Tags: arctic expedition, baffin island, Desafio Extremo, filmmaker, filmmaking, ice dive, ice diving, Jesús Calleja, narwhal, Pond Inlet, Thomas Lennartz
