De wilde Noordzee

From the 1950s onwards, the famous French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau made countless trips across the world's oceans in his ship the Calypso to capture life on and especially underwater on film. It was these films that inspired Peter van Rodijnen to explore that wonderful and often mysterious underwater world himself - which he has been doing for the past 20 years.

He also started exploring the North Sea, by far the largest nature area in the Netherlands. And that proved to be by no means an easy task, because when he began his exploration, he faced many challenges, such as murky visibility, dangerously strong currents and raging storms. But he was not deterred and managed to unravel the untamed natural wonder of the North Sea, a world where the smallest organisms like plankton along with the largest animals like basking sharks and tuna form one magnificent, inseparable ecosystem. In dazzlingly beautiful images, he captured that world on film.