From conch fishing to cacao cultivation, and including Amerindian remedies, Martinique reveals a living and little-known heritage. ✋ To discover more travel documentaries 👉 http://bit.ly/4mHkEDB Subscribe 🙏

00:00 – Introduction: Traditions, Memory, and Caribbean Identity
00:09 – Conch: Between Traditional Fishing and Natural Treasure
05:41 – Amerindian Cuisine Revisited by a Great Chef
09:45 – The Renaissance of Martinican Cacao
15:39 – Medicinal Plants and Ancestral Amerindian Knowledge
20:58 – Conclusion: A Living Memory to Pass On

On the morning of May 8, 1902, on Mount Pelée, an eruption ten times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima devastated the bay of Saint-Pierre in Martinique. 30,000 people were swept away by a pyroclastic flow that hurtled down the volcano's slopes at over 400 km/h. The ruins visible today are the scars of yesterday's catastrophe. In 1974, in the waters of the bay, Michel Météry, an accomplished diver and former member of Commander Cousteau's crew on the Calypso, made a breathtaking discovery: a maritime cemetery of still undetermined extent, which has so far revealed only a tiny fraction of its secrets...

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Title: Martinique, in the footsteps of Saint-Pierre Bay
Directed by: Anthony Binst and Thomas Van Nedervelde
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