Cosquer Méditerranée

This guide to Cosquer Mediterranee in Marseille opens with a question: why spend twenty-three million euros recreating a cave almost nobody may enter? It traces how diver Henri Cosquer found the real cave's flooded entrance in 1985, kept it secret for years, and how three divers drowned there in 1991 trying to find their way out. Artist Gilles Tosello then spent years learning to grind ochre and charcoal and paint the way the cave's original artists had, tracing every crack in the stone from three-dimensional scans.