TARA, THE RESEARCH SCHOONER IS SAILING AROUND THE GLOBE IN ORDER TO SAMPLE CORAL AND PLANKTON WITH SCIENTISTS AND LABS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD - FROM 2009 TO 2012. Bertrand from TV program Thalassa is showing to Abdu the book of Tara stuck in the Artic ice. For him, it's hard to believe he is on board this boat who was in the ice, he said while laughing the only ice he knows is the one in his Coca Cola ! It was really great to get a local guy like Abdu aboard. So clever, helpfull and interesting ! He told us his stories in the coutry side during civilian wars and fights in the bush... He survives to many hazardous times and knows the price of life...
TARA, THE RESEARCH SCHOONER IS SAILING AROUND THE GLOBE IN ORDER TO SAMPLE CORAL AND PLANKTON WITH SCIENTISTS AND LABS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD - FROM 2009 TO 2012. Mooring inside the Bay of Goubbet.
TARA, THE RESEARCH SCHOONER IS SAILING AROUND THE GLOBE IN ORDER TO SAMPLE CORAL AND PLANKTON WITH SCIENTISTS AND LABS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD - FROM 2009 TO 2012. The rosette permit to sample plackton in the ocean, we call this act, station. Its gets some plastic containers like long bottles on it which are openned during the descent. The scientist at the surface manage a joystisk to determine which depth he wants to sample. When he stops the cable, which can reach 2000 m depth, he also control the bottles enclosure. Then, he brings up the sample of water and filter it directly on the deck, next to the "wet lab", were all samples are arranged and organize before the freezer. The rosette, metal structure equipped with sensors and Niskin bottles. It is also called CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth). It takes samples at different depths, measures the properties of a vertical water column, from 0 to 2,000 m, with readings every 5 cm and identifies the DCM zone (maximum chlorophyll zone).
