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Aboard the scientific sailboat "Tara", the time of a stopover in Cape Town

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The schooner Tara.

© Claire Bargeles

By: Claire Bargelès Follow

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The Tara schooner is a French scientific sailboat that travels the seas of the globe to study the oceans.

recently stopped in Cape Town, South Africa, where our correspondent was able to board for a sea trip.

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After exploring the coasts of Latin America, then the Weddell Sea in Antarctica,

has now begun her ascent of the West African coasts, from Namibia to Senegal.

These are the final stages of his twelfth expedition, which began in December 2020, to enable him to better understand the microbiome, the invisible people of the sea.

Several stopovers will take

to Congo, Gambia and Senegal, before returning to the port of Lorient at the end of the year, after some 70,000 kilometers covered.

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