To christen his new supply ship, a schooner intended to serve as a link between the inhabited oceanographic platform Polar Pod and the rest of the world, Jean-Louis Étienne could not find better than
Persévérance
.
A name that recalls that of the great exploration ships, such as Sir Ernest Shackleton's
Endurance
or
James Cook's
Endeavor
(the
Effort
), and underlines, not without a certain irony, all the stubbornness with which the doctor and tireless French explorer, now 76 years old, will have had to show proof in order to achieve against all odds one of his greatest dreams.
Because the adventure had started badly.
On November 29, 2012 in Brest, when he presented during a press conference his next expedition, a year of exploration in the heart of the Southern Ocean aboard Polar Pod, a "vessel of a
new
kind
"
particularly well suited for scientific research and sailing in the big ocean swell, everything seems perfect.
Before…
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