French below Brian Miller and his wife Elanor are on the Akademik Treshnikov to listen to the whales in the Southern Ocean. Bastien Confino (RTS) interviewed Brian, a researcher at the Australian Antarctic Division. – Brian, we are standing on the helipad at the back of the ship as the […]

  While heading to Peter 1st Island, David Walton, the chief scientist, and the other researchers on board decided to change the ship’s itinerary in response to the shifting ice floes. We were unexpectedly able to get close to Siple Island, whose main geographic feature is Mount Siple, a 3,110 […]

By Christian de Marliave, ACE expedition head of logistics/directeur logistique de l’expédition ACE.   Scott Island came into sight at 5pm on 5 February. It was our second 5 February at these latitudes this year: after leaving Cape Town, we sailed in the eastern longitudes, while Scott Island is located […]

Wind speed 8 m.s-1   |   Temp air : 4.1°C   |   Temp water : 3.2°C   |   Latitude 52° S  |   Longitude 74° E Depuis deux jours, le navire vogue vers une île mystérieuse. Les plus pessimistes n’en attendent pas grand-chose. L’archipel volcanique serait recouvert de nuages 90% […]