Scientists from Toulon University deduce from the first analyses of the acoustic data collected during the Sphyrna Odyssey 2019-2020 mission that Mediterranean sperm whales coordinate when they hunt with the clicks of their biosonar.

In order to raise public awareness and encourage concerted action to achieve ocean conservation goals, the United Nations General Assembly decided in 2008 to proclaim 8 June as World Oceans Day. Monaco Principality commits itself to…

First meeting with the scientific referents of the 2021 Indian Ocean Mission

On 23 April 2020, the Sphyrna Odyssey scientific mission launched the “QUIET SEA” operation to measure the impact of the drop in activity on the behaviour of cetaceans in the Mediterranean via acoustic recordings.

On the occasion of the announcement of the upcoming release of the film Planet Mediterranean retracing Gombessa 5 expedition, we asked Laurent Ballesta to share a moment that had inspired him

July 2019, it has already been 8 months since Laurent, Antonin, Thibault and Yanick left for 28 days of confinement in a bathyal station of a few square meters…

On the occasion of the end of the Sphyrna Odyssey 2019 mission, we are sharing here with you a whole dossier dedicated to the expedition, published in the latest issue of Marine & Oceans magazine.

Following the mission of Explorations de Monaco in 2018, the Malpelo Foundation headed by Sandra Bessudo is locating a nursery for scalloped hammerhead sharks.

HSH Prince Albert II of Monaco dives the Calypso Deep off the Greek coast, with the American explorer Victor Vescovo

The MedFund and Monaco Explorations reinforce the protection of Karaburun Sazan’s Albanian MPA