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. Sailing at night in the Gulf of Aden, the schooner Tara reveals the presence of a planktonic people, during a "bloom", a massive prayer of microscopic algae. Among these unicellular organisms, the dinosaurs have receptors sensitive to friction. They cause the intervention of an enzyme, luciferase, which produces the emission of light. It is bio-luminescence. This is how the sea lights up when the boat crosses an area rich in bio-luminescent plankton. A magical night aboard...
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. After 24 days at sea to complete the crossing of the Gulf of Aden, we are arriving in Abu Dhabi.
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 is at the dock for a few days, the time to deliver welcom the new scientists aboard and it will be time to set the ropes to India !
