The competitive spirit and camaraderie between childhood friends in free-diving competition and one man's love and affinity with the ocean and his newly found love of a woman.

Rating: 9/10 (15 May 2005)

It's true this is a hard movie to describe to one's friends especially if you know that they are not the 'sensitive' type. I thought the wide open shots of the ocean took my breath away, the dolphins made me want to dive in and swim away forever. I have been diving so understand the silence, peace and tranquility found beneath the surface of a large body of water and can relate to the hunger to stay where everything appears perfect and calm. But diving in these competitions gets very scientific and dangerous and I can see that after the trauma of his father's death he felt responsible for his friend's death. It was inevitable that in trying to help out the doctor he sentenced his friend to a watery grave as he knew he would have to rise to the challenge set by Jacque it was Enzo's nature. I think that when he took him down for the last time there was a moment there where he thought about staying himself, hence the blackout. Which to my version was cut to quickly from ocean to deck. Not seeing the dolphin at the end as it was too black I thought that he knew he had brain damage from the 400ft, and didn't want to burden anyone, knowing it was his time to go to the bottom to see the mermaids. But if I had seen the dolphin taking him up it would have made more sense to me as he did have something to go up for, which he alluded to on the balcony, and that was a baby on the way and the love of a woman for the 'first time', in his life. Loved the movie. Love to see more like this.