Jacques Bazin, ice pilot with the French Navy: “Navigating in ice is like playing billiards with 150,000 banks, where you have to anticipate and detect passages.” Image: Virgil Decourteille / French Polar Institute The French Navy’s Hydrographic and...
French research icebreakerAstrolabe was launched in 2017 and ensures, among other things, the supply of French bases in Antarctica. Image: Cécile Pozzo di Borgo Reducing the carbon footprint of Antarctic research could be achieved by reducing the speed of ships and...