In search of the new Sargasso sea During a scientific expedition from June 19 to July 13, 2017 aboard ANTEA, a ship of the French Oceanographic Fleet, a team of researchers carried out an important sampling of the fauna and flora associated with the « rafts of the Sargassum ». These brown pelagic algae present in the tropical Atlantic have been stranded since 2011 on the Atlantic coasts, because of the ocean circulation. They are responsible for important environmental, health and economic problems, especially in the West Indies and French Guiana. The researchers and teacher-researchers of the IRD, Aix-Marseille University, the University of the West Indies and the University of Western Brittany made a journey of 25 days between French Guiana, the West Indies and the Sargasso sea. Discover their work of locating, sampling and analyzing sargasses, in this film directed by IRD Images.
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During a scientific expedition from June 19 to July 13, 2017 aboard ANTEA, a ship of the French Oceanographic Fleet, a team of researchers carried out an important sampling of the fauna and flora associated with the « rafts of the Sargassum ». These brown pelagic algae present in the tropical Atlantic have been stranded since 2011 on the Atlantic coasts, because of the ocean circulation. They are responsible for important environmental, health and economic problems, especially in the West Indies and French Guiana. The researchers and teacher-researchers of the IRD, Aix-Marseille University, the University of the West Indies and the University of Western Brittany made a journey of 25 days between French Guiana, the West Indies and the Sargasso sea. Discover their work of locating, sampling and analyzing sargasses, in this film directed by IRD Images.