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* FunnyForeigner: The Japanese team is ridiculed: a large group of trainers surrounds the freediver and encourages him noisily. Eventually the champion feels faint before diving.
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* CreatorCameo: Creator/LucBesson appears as one of the competing freedivers.
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* FunnyForeigner: The Japanese team is ridiculed: a large group of trainers surrounds the freediver and encourages him noisily. Eventually the champion feels faint before diving.
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* AmbulanceCut: Jacques and Enzo, who are already drunk, are shown drinking a bottle of champagne in apnea at the bottom of a swimming pool. Cut to paramedics carrying Jacques and Enzo on stretchers.
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* BetterWithNonHumanCompany: Jacques has a special bond with dolphins and has difficulties to develop relationships with humans. At some point he says that dolphins are his family.
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* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: Just after [[spoiler:Enzo's death]], a doctor tells Johana that she is pregnant.
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* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:After witnessing the death of his friend Enzo, Jacques realizes that he does not belong to the human society. He dives at a great depth, lets go of his harness and follows a dolphins in the vast blackness of the deep ocean.]]
* FlashbackEcho: When Enzo has a diving accident, a short flashback shows that Jacques remembers the death of his father in another diving accident.
* FlashbackEcho: When Enzo has a diving accident, a short flashback shows that Jacques remembers the death of his father in another diving accident.
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* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: [[spoiler:In the end, Johana talks to Jacques and tries to convince him not to dive in the depths of the sea, but eventually she realizes that he is determined to do it and she pulls the release cord for the dive ballast, which sends Jacques to the depths.]]
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* GracefulLoser: When his record is beaten by Jacques, Enzo accepts it with dignity and even gives presents to Jacques: a dolphin sculpture and tape measure of one meter that represents the difference between their records.
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* GracefulLoser: When his record is beaten by Jacques, Enzo accepts it with dignity and even gives presents to Jacques: a dolphin sculpture and a tape measure of one meter that represents the difference between their records.
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* GracefulLoser: When his record is beaten by Jacques, Enzo accepts it with dignity and even gives presents to Jacques: a dolphin sculpture and tape measure of one meter that represents the difference between their records.
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* NatureHero: Jacques has an affinity with dolphins and says that they are his family. He can communicate with them and immediately realizes that a dolphin is homesick at Taormina delphinarium. He has more difficulty to communicate with humans.
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* NatureHero: Jacques spends a lot of time in the sea, has an affinity with dolphins and says that they are his family. He can communicate with them and immediately realizes that a dolphin is homesick at Taormina delphinarium. He has more difficulty to communicate with humans.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The character of Enzo Molinari is based on real-life Enzo Maiorca, but his full name is not used because he did not allow it. He would later sue the production company to ban the film in Italy.
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* BurialAtSea: [[spoiler:Jacques brings Enzo's body in the depths of the sea, as he requested.]]
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* DreamSequence: Near the end of the film, Jacques dreams that the ceiling of his bedroom turns into a body of water.
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* LastRequest: [[spoiler:A dying Enzo asks Jacques to bring his body in the depths of the sea.]]
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* MissingMom: Jacques's mother left him and his father because she could not stand the life of shellfish harvesters.
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* MyBelovedSmother: Enzo's mother controls him. She does not let him eat pasta prepared by someone else.
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* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Jacques can communicate with dolphins and immediately realizes that one of them is homesick at Taormina delphinarium.
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*DeliberatelyMonochrome: DownerEnding: The first part European version. Jacques is victorious in getting a world record depth of 400 feet (121.92 meters), however, [[spoiler:his friend, Enzo, dies trying to beat his record in the competition, and after burying his friend and competitor at sea, Jacques experiences side effects of his last deep dive and ends his life following a dolphin in the vast blackness of the movie in 1960s Greece is black and white footage. Only the film's title sequence is blue.deep ocean, leaving a pregnant Joanna behind.]]
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* HappyEndingOverride: The European Version LoveAtFirstSight: Johana falls in spades. love immediately when she meets Jacques in Peru.
* AMinorKidroduction: The prologue isvictorious in getting a world record depth of 400 feet (121.92 meters), however, [[spoiler: his friend, Enzo, dies trying to beat his record set in the competition, and after burying his friend and competitor at sea, 1960s, when Jacques experiences side effects and Enzo were children.
* MonochromePast: The first part of the movie in 1960s Greece is black and white footage. Only the film's title sequence is blue. The main part of the film, which is set in the 1980s, is in colour.
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* SociallyAwkwardHero: Jacques dares to dive at great depths without hesitation, but it is very difficult for him to start dating a girl (even if said girl is obviously interested in him) and to maintain the relationship.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The story is based on the real-life rivalry and friendship between Jacques Mayol and Enzo Maiorca, but most of the events depicted in the film are made up. Moreover, Jacques and Enzo are depicted as kids in 1965 and as adults in their prime in 1988, whereas Jacques Mayol and Enzo Maiorca were born in 1927 and 1931 respectively.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Enzo is shown vomiting when he is taken out of the pool where he drank champagne with Jacques.
* WetBlanketWife: Johana would like to live a normal life with Jacques and would like him to stop his dangerous dives.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The story is based on the real-life rivalry and friendship between Jacques Mayol and Enzo Maiorca, but most of the events depicted in the film are made up. Moreover, Jacques and Enzo are depicted as kids in 1965 and as adults in their prime in 1988, whereas Jacques Mayol and Enzo Maiorca were born in 1927 and 1931 respectively.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: Enzo is shown vomiting when he is taken out of the pool where he drank champagne with Jacques.
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->'''Johanna:''' You really send him under the ice? ...How is he going to breathe?\\
'''Dr. Laurence:''' He isn't.
'''Dr. Laurence:''' He isn't.
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* FriendlyRivalry: Jacques and Enzo are close friends despite knowing that sooner or later they will have to prove which one is the best in the world.
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Creator/LucBesson was once a diver before an accident forbade him to continue. [[WriteWhatYouKnow It inspired him to write and direct this movie]], which was released in 1988 and starred Jean-Marc Barr, Creator/JeanReno, Creator/RosannaArquette and Creator/PaulShenar.
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*AmbiguousEnding: The American Version. [[spoiler: Jacques swims with a dolphin from an insane depth up to the surface and swims with said dolphin under the moonlight. Roll credits.]]
*DeliberatelyMonochrome: The first part of the movie in 1960s Greece is black and white footage. Only the film's title sequence is blue.
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*AmbiguousEnding: The American Version. [[spoiler: Jacques swims with a dolphin from an insane depth up to the surface and swims with said dolphin under the moonlight. Roll credits.]]
*DeliberatelyMonochrome: The first part of the movie in 1960s Greece is black and white footage. Only the film's title sequence is blue.
*HappyEndingOverride: The European Version in spades. Jacques is victorious in getting a world record depth of 400 feet (121.92 meters), however, [[spoiler: his friend, Enzo, dies trying to beat his record in the competition, and after burying his friend and competitor at sea, Jacques experiences side effects of his last deep dive and ends his life following a dolphin in the vast blackness of the deep ocean, leaving a pregnant Joanna behind.]]
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