Tag: seabed
Mayotte: dive into the most beautiful lagoons in the world!
With the help of photographer Gabriel Barathieu, dive into the depths of the island of Mayotte and its surroundings! The seabed of the island is full of Pisces and other…
Trip to the Tuamotu, French Polynesia, with Antoine
L’archipelago of the Tuamotus is made up of 76 atollsor rings of coral on the surface of the water, on which lie low islands, which are part of French Polynesia.…
Pollution, overfishing, seabed… the UN at the bedside of the oceans to preserve their future
The second United Nations Ocean Conference opened in Lisbon for the whole week. On the program, meetings between Heads of State, demonstrations by civil society and perhaps greater commitments to…
“It’s the most extreme wave ever observed”: off Canada, a huge rogue wave
The rogue waves are impressive. And the one observed by researchers off Canada in November 2020 may have been even more so than the others. With its nearly 18 meters…
Ocean: the role of deep ecosystems in carbon capture
The abyssal depths of the oceans are home to much greater biodiversity than plankton and little-explored ecosystems harboring the richest fossil record on Earth. This is what researchers have been…
One Ocean Summit: experts at the bedside of the oceans
This decade is the decade of the oceans with the One Ocean summit which is held in Brest from February 9 to 11, 2022. Its objective is to mobilize interested…
The Exploratorium: the mysteries of the seabed revealed by satellites
How are seabed maps constructed? While bathymetric data acquired by boat is essential, the development of satellite altimetry has revolutionized our knowledge of this world buried under water. You will…
Trip to East Timor, a magical dive
Go on a trip to East Timor, a country ofarchipelago Indonesian ideal for scuba diving. It lies, for the most part, on the eastern half of the island of Timor,…