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Plastiki, the catamaran made of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles and conceived by David de Rothschild, has completed its four-month journey from San Francisco to Sydney. The aim of the expedition is to focus attention on marine pollution. 12,500 plastic bottles to cross the Pacific 28/07/2010	Everyone knows that our planet’s seas and oceans are salty. But where does all this salt come from ? Why is the sea salty ? 22/07/2010	SNSM Trophy 22/06/2010	All sailors will tell you: you never set sail without maps. Since September 30, 2004, electronic maps officially replaced the good old paper maps depicting the earth’s surface. Close-up on a tool that is essential to ocean-going journeys. Technology serving mapping 04/08/2009	June 22 has been declared “World Biodiversity Day.” The aim is to generate public awareness of the need to protect the environment. Among others, it is an opportunity to discover regions that are exclusively or largely designated as marine protected areas (MPAs) with their wealth of biodiversity. Bamberg MPA in Senegal is an ideal example well worth exploring. Marine protected areas 18/05/2009
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Ifremer, some fifteen short programs about deep-sea research will be screened in partnership with France 24 and Veolia Environnement. Ifremer / France 24 / Veolia Environnement Partnership 12/05/2009	Ecological dismantling 19/03/2009	The lost expedition of La Pérouse, the Armada of tall ships in Rouen, the rebuilding of the frigate Hermione, the legend of Eric Tabarly – the interest aroused in the public by such adventures shows that the sea has lost nothing of its centuries-old powers of attraction. The Painters of the Fleet, recording on canvas the sea and ships. 19/03/2009	Surf 16/03/2009	They are tiny and yet essential to aquatic life… Planktons are the very foundation of the marine food chain. At the bottom of the food chain 09/01/2009
If you go off what the skippers say on each radio interview, they go up onto the deck to have a look at their sails, wait longingly for calm seas so that they can get some sleep, get the sailing done by their automatic pilot, and scurry about getting a meal ready before reefing… not really enough to fill up a 24-hour day. In which case, was Roland right when saying one day on the radio that it was a job for lazy individuals? So why do they actually take to the seas? 06/01/2009	Located at the time of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, Cape Horn was only officially seen in 1616 by Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten, but probably was already passed by the English sailor Francis Drake as early as 1578… Cape Horn 05/01/2009	Twenty-five times bigger than France, 14 million square kilometres of earth and rocks covered with an icecap that is an average of 2.5 kilometres thick…The Greeks believed in Antarctica but it was only physically discovered in 1774 by James Cook and colonised in 1840 by Dumont d’Urville… Antarctica 19/12/2008	Part of the French Southern and Antarctic lands, the Kerguelen Archipelago is located at 49°South and 69°East at the heart of the Indian Ocean. A truly desolate land that Chevalier Yves Joseph de Kerguelen de Trémarec named the “Desolation” islands on 12th January 1772… The Kerguelen islands 19/12/2008	The first of the three Located at 34°21 South and 18°28 East, the Cape of Good Hope is the first of the three mythical promontories that map out the journey round the world, along with Cape Leeuwin (South-West Australia) and Cape Horn (the southern-most point of South America). In the 15th century, the Cape opened the doors to trade between Europe and Asia. Cape of Good Hope 15/12/2008
From the Atlantic to the Pacific and passing through the Indian Ocean, barely any land interferes with the depressions generated in Argentina as they pass: they can almost reach Antarctica unhindered, with sometimes winds of over thirty knots! The Big South is an area almost deserted of human life and extremely unstable… Stormy passage… 03/12/2008	The occurrence of the Vendée Globe every four years, the media following of the event and the humble reserve of all those who have finished the race have, to our jaded eyes, made sure that sailing round the world single-handed and with no ports of call is viewed as something quite normal, a mere sporting event. The Big Waves of the Vendée Globe 14/11/2008	800 miles from the European coastline, the archipelago of the Azores is made up of peaks of recent volcanoes (4 million years old) that are still active. The Azores: the central islands 13/11/2008	“Seadogs! Pirates! Buccaneers! Freebooters! Marauders! Privateers!” You would think that Cap’n Haddock was having a swearing fit… This is the list of names used to describe the famous sea rovers. These faithless, lawless men have put fear in the bellies of sailors for centuries! Up and at ’em! 13/02/2008	The origins of human superstition no doubt lie in the need to explain nature, with the clear will to find a reason for mysteries surrounding man and take charge of our fate by calling on good fortune. Superstition: the sailor’s religion 12/02/2008
Discover the Turbovoile system Turbovoile® 22/01/2008	In marine slang, this is the name that sailors fear the most, not because it is dangerous or that the elements rage wild there; the “pot au noir” is infamous for its indigestible meteorological menu that puts nerves to the toughest test… An harsh forecast ... 27/11/2007	El Hierro is the most Westerly and the smallest of the 7Canary Islands. By 2009, it will be the first territory in the world to be completely supplied by renewable energies powered by the sea and the air! A greener world 20/11/2007	It is the meeting point of temperate Europe and the desert of Africa, where the cold Atlantic meets the warm Mediterranean. The Strait of Gibraltar is a worrying and fickle weather zone. Strait of Gibraltar 15/11/2007	The Alboran Sea off Gibraltar: competitors in the Barcelona World Race tack to leave the Strait before tackling the Atlantic Ocean. Underwater's treasure 25/10/2007

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