Unusual. They announce an underwater pregnancy in Rouen: the emotion of a family
By Mathieu Normand
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Accustomed to filming in the seabed, theRouen explorer Manuel Añò has just delivered in July 2022 theone of his most moving videos. And this time it was shot at bottom of a swimming pool ! We discover there thesurprise pregnancy announcement what he does to his family next to his wife a Rouen (Seine-Maritime).
The plan had been matured for a long time. “I had the idea in mind for at least 8 years,” says Manuel Añò. I had thought of the most original way to announce it and have a great time with the family. “Except that settling then in Canada, he did not imagine being back so soon in his Normandy. “Things have changed a bit this year. We returned to France. This is where my wife took the pregnancy test. And we organized things in Rouen. »
It justifies a fake graduation
Thanks to the complicity of his sister and a friend of the family, members of the GCOB diving club, he managed to obtain access to a water line during a lesson. “People were swimming and operating apnea nearby. Everyone was in on the secret, except my family. Everyone had to keep the secret. “Allowing him to invent a scheme: to make his relatives believe that he needed them to pass an exercise for him to become a diving instructor in France, a title he already had in Canada.
It took a lot of persuading to convince his mother to dive again after 20 years, but everyone finally said yes. His brother was the first to dive. Once in the water, Manuel Añò stood with his wife behind a sign saying “behind this painting, we are three”. “He took a little longer to figure out than my parents, but once he did, he cried into his mask! My parents then went into the water. They were very moved too. »
• VIDEO: The surprise pregnancy announcement in the swimming pool:
The video was released three months after filming. “The pregnancy is at 17 weeks, so we thought it was getting safer and we could share this with everyone. An enchanted parenthesis before heading back abroad to shoot new documentaries on the marine world.
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