The Grey NATO – 228 – From Rangiroa With Love, Blancpain, and Laurent Ballesta

This episode has been a couple of years in the making and it is guest hosted by watchmaker, diver, raconteur, and friend-of-the-show, Jason Gallop. As many of you already know, Jason is the proprietor Roldorf & Co, a watch business in Vancouver, Canada that offers both sales and service.

Since its widespread adoption by Britain's MOD in the early seventies, the humble G10 strap has lived at the apex of function and utilitarian style, owing a sterling reputation of dependability to a rich service record of securing the world's most iconic tool watches to the wrists of its bravest men and women.

This week we have something extra special for Episode 153 as the TGN boys got a chance to catch up with Laurent Ballesta while he was finishing decompression following the completion of the Gombessa 6 project.

Rangiroa ( Tuamotuan for 'vast sky') or Te Kokōta ( Cook Islands Māori for 'the Hyades star cluster') is the largest atoll in the Tuamotus and one of the largest in the world (smaller than Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands and Huvadhu in the Maldives).

Designed for long-duration deep dives Inspired by the invaluable heritage of the 1953 Fifty Fathoms - the world's first modern diving watch - and, above all, by his own underwater experiences, Blancpain's President & CEO embarked on the design of a new mechanical diving instrument with fellow diver Laurent Ballesta.

Designed for long-duration deep dives Inspired by the invaluable heritage of the 1953 Fifty Fathoms - the world's first modern diving watch - and, above all, by his own underwater experiences, Blancpain's President & CEO embarked on the design of a new mechanical diving instrument with fellow diver Laurent Ballesta.

Laurent Ballesta's Gombessa project focuses on studying some of the rarest, most elusive marine creatures and phenomena on Earth. Ballesta and his team use state-of-the-art closed-circuit rebreather diving techniques to reach extreme depths and bring back unique scientific data, photographs, and videos. Their activities are consistently marked by triple challenges of a technical, scientific and artistic nature.

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This trek has it all: three countries, endless views of Western Europe's highest peak-15,771-foot Mont Blanc-fresh-baked treats at high huts you stay in along the way, and views of climbers clinging to improbable spires.

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