Rough and exciting seas

Apologies for not posting much here, but life on board is very busy and we had some weather hiccups that did not help us sitting in front of a computer or looking through the microscope. Our first 10 days of work have been extremely successful. We deployed seismometers to record…

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Back in Blue

…and we are back to the blue ocean! On the French research vessel Pourquoi pas? for the “Arc en Sub” mission, we are exploring the deep crust at the Rainbow massif, 36°14’N along the Mid Atlantic Ridge. Here, one active hydrothermal site and two fossil ones have been discovered to date. We…

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6000 and beyond! (by Daniele)

As the title of this blog states we never imagined what was coming in our lives. We planned several dives keeping conservatives with the limit defined by Ifremer policies. The day arrived, however, all concurred to an historic performance. The Nautile team led by Xavier Placaud was running confident since…

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