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DeepHope finishing on a high note – By Emmanuelle Périé-Bardout
I am coming back from 120 meters. Copyright Franck Gazzola / Under The Pole At 6 m depth, my computer displays 72 minutes before returning to the surface. I am coming back from 120 meters. A depth I never thought I could reach just a few months ago. I look over at...
DeepHope finishing on a high note – By Ghislain Bardout
DeepHope is complete. Like any program, it was destined to end eventually. And here we are, after 12 months of roaming in Polynesia, sailing from island to island relentlessly, diving day after day to 120 m and beyond, this exceptional program is...
LAETITIA HÉDOUIN, COORDINATRICE DU PROGRAMME SCIENTIFIQUE DEEPHOPE
Laetitia Hédouin, can you introduce yourself ? My name is Laëtitia Hédouin. I am in charge of Research at the CNRS with the CRIOBE (Insular Research Center and Environment Observatory) based in Moorea. It js a French laboratory specialised in the...
DeepHope : first assessment by Ghislain Bardout
Ghislain Bardout, could you tell us about the overall objectives of the DeepHope program currently on-going ? We are currently half-way though the DeepHope program, a scientific project surveying the deep corals ecosystems. It started in July 2018 and will be...
Christmas in the Marquesas by Emmanuelle Perié-Bardout
Decembre 2018 : a well deserved break © Maxime Horlaville / Under The Pole The WHY is moored in the Atuona Bay on the island of Hiva Oa in the Marquesas archipelago, where Paul Gaugin and Jacques Brel lived their last days, inpired by the raw beauty of the...
Meeting with Julien Leblond
I did my first dive in Guadeloupe with my Uncle when I was 7, and since I lived all my childhood in the Reunion island, I had the opportunity to spend a lot of time in the lagoon and on the reef. With my mask and my fins, my brothers and I would only come back to...
Interview: Michel Pichon
Can you introduce yourself in a few words ? My name is Michel Pichon. I am an Agronomist Engineer (Paris), a Doctor in Oceanography, Doctor in Science (Marseille), graduated in Oceanography from the ORSTOM, Officer of the Order of the Academic Palms. I...
Meeting with Aldo Ferrucci
Can you introduce yourself in a few words (who are you, where you’re from, how old you were when you started diving, your experience as a rebreather diver, and the projects in which you’ve taken part in…)? My name is Aldo Ferrucci. I’m Italian and I am a...
News from Polynesia
It’s been already two months since we arrived in French Polynesia. Two very intense months on the WHY and back in Concarneau. Our field team has emptied about 3 months worth of equipment and food that had been loaded in a container and shipped from...
Focus on the WHY: Under The Pole’s expedition’s schooner
Ghislain, can you tell us how you initially crossed paths with the WHY? When did that happen? I often say tell that the WHY is an old new ship, as when Emmanuelle and I bought her she had already been built for 30 years but had never sailed. Our story...
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