An 80-year-old diver searches for his old manta ray friend, The Last Dive (The Last Dive) releases a preview

I want it to know that I haven't forgotten it.“The trailer of the documentary - The Last Dive - left this sentence to an eighty-year-old man and the friends he made in the sea.The film will be released in select theaters around the world starting November 10 and will be distributed by Area 23A; it premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2025.

The old man's name is Terry Kennedy and he lives in Baja California, Mexico.He is a U.S. Army veteran and a former member of the ”Hells Angels“. He had a troubled past and later spent decades on and off the water.What changed his life was an ocean-going manta ray with a wingspan of about 22 feet and 6.7 meters. He called it ”Willy%.

The friendship lasted nearly twenty years.Willy would tap the hull of Terry's sailboat with his pectoral fins, as if sending an invitation to dive together.They explore the sea together, and this connection also allows Terry to gradually become an ocean protector.

Now in his eighties, Terry prepares to travel to a remote volcanic island, hoping to see his old friends again.In addition to the reunion, he also hopes to gain inner peace during this journey, find a home for the past, and get a chance to say goodbye.The trailer shows the process of him setting out to find Willy, and does not reveal the result of this search in advance.

FirstShowing discussed the film together with My Octopus Teacher, believing that both touch on the friendship between humans and marine animals, and each has its own story.The author of the report also expressed his love for such cross-species emotions and believed that the new trailer made this nature documentary seem warm and worthy of attention.

Director Cody Sheehy has previously filmed Voices of Mongolia, Beyond the Mirage: The Future of Water in the West and Make People Better.The film's producers include Rachel Cohen, Jana Edelbaum, Christopher Gebhardt, Randy Gebhardt and Mark Monroe.