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. Tara's hull needed to be cleaned up during the Maldives stopover of the expedition Tara Oceans (2009 to 2012 - plankton sampling & coral study). Welcome at the shipyard of the island of Tilafushi, which is the incredible "rubbish island". A Fake island 100% made out from burned garbage issued from Male, the overcrowded capital of Maldives and all the luxury resorts where so much people dream to spend sweet tropical vacancies... A most chocking experience about pollution. When it rains loud, the garbage who is burning starting to produce huge dark clouds of toxic smokes, a vision of hell on a place humans like to compare to a paradise...
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" schedule for Maldives. 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).
