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Offshore racing goes to microplastic hunting

2020-07-02T03:01:15.375Z


REPORTAGE - A sailboat on the Vendée-Arctic loop will hunt down these pollutants in rarely navigated areas.A few dozen hours before the start of the Vendée-Arctic race, Stefan Raimund, SubCtech engineer, is fine-tuning the final adjustments to the scientific sensors on board Fabrice Amedeo's racing sailboat *. With a precise gesture, he screws on one of the instruments three small metal filters intended to collect microplastics present in sea water. Read also: Containment: lessons from a Vendée Globe ...


A few dozen hours before the start of the Vendée-Arctic race, Stefan Raimund, SubCtech engineer, is fine-tuning the final adjustments to the scientific sensors on board Fabrice Amedeo's racing sailboat *. With a precise gesture, he screws on one of the instruments three small metal filters intended to collect microplastics present in sea water.

Read also: Containment: lessons from a Vendée Globe skipper

This brand new device, developed by the German engineer, was eagerly awaited by a group of researchers who have entered into a partnership with the skipper of the Newrest-Arts & Windows monohull . "Every day during the race, Fabrice Amedeo will change the filters and store them in dedicated bags, so that when he returns we can analyze the microplastics collected" , explains Catherine Dreanno, researcher at Ifremer in Brest. And the original route of this qualifying race for the Vendée Globe, modified because of the Covid-19 epidemic which made it impossible to start from

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Source: lefigaro

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