Vendée Globe: How the Nivôse frigate prepares the delicate Escoffier transshipment operation

November 30, 2016, off the Kerguelen Islands.

Launched into a high-speed duel around the globe, Armel Le Cléac'h and Alex Thomson, alone on their monohull, experience the harshness of the Indian Ocean.

And the mythical roaring 40ths, “

”, as Loïck Fougeron, author-navigator in love with the

deep South, so aptly

told it.

Limited until then to our imagination, the reality of this other world then invites itself into our lounges thanks to the Nivôse surveillance frigate, which came to meet the first two of the Vendée Globe.

Images, beautiful and spectacular, picked up by the helicopter Panther

show the hardness elements in these hostile regions.

Responsible for monitoring the maritime areas under French sovereignty in the Indian Ocean (Reunion Island, Mayotte, the French Southern and Antarctic Lands) and for combating illegal activities at sea (drug trafficking, illegal fishing, etc.), the Nivôse is found again, four

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