Gilles Bessero, head of the Monaco Explorations mission in the Indian Ocean, gives us his thoughts at the end of this first phase, during the stopover in the Seychelles, between the disembarkation and embarkation of the first teams and new arrivals.
Flora Ginocchio, Administrative Manager of Explorations de Monaco, joined the mission during the stopovers in Mauritius and Reunion.
In this post, she talks about these two stopovers and the long months of preparation that preceded the ship’s departure.
Olivier Laroussinie, a member of the Indian Ocean Mission Steering Committee, was on board for the initial trip from Cape Town to Mauritius…
He shares his first impressions and assesses the challenges of the mission.
Céline Dimier, a biology engineer from Villefranche-sur-Mer, gives us her first impressions on leaving Cape Town.
A new mission… and a new oceanographic adventure for this veteran of long-distance scientific missions and expeditions.
