News

January

Six nominations for “Alick and Albert”, the documentary film, in Australia

The documentary film “Alick and Albert” is one of three documentaries selected for the ASIN Awards 2021. It is competing in six categories.

January

Monaco Explorations is recruiting!

At the start of 2022, the Société des Explorations de Monaco is recruiting a Communications Officer. Download the job description on this page.

December

Season’s Greetings!

Monaco

Monaco Explorations wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

December

The Future of Plastic Waste in Seychelles

Seychelles

Since 2020, the open innovation program “The Future of_ Plastic Waste” has aimed to implement practical solutions for recycling, transformation, and reduction of plastic waste in the Indian Ocean by supporting innovative and multi-stakeholder initiatives in Seychelles.

November

Call for an artist’s residence on board. Indian Ocean Expedition 2022

Indian Ocean

The Société des Explorations de Monaco is launching this call for expressions of interest for an artist’s residency on board the ship that will be chartered for its next expedition to the Indian Ocean, which is currently being prepared. This new expedition is the first part of the “Monaco Explorations” project approved as a contribution to the United Nations Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development 2021-2030.

October

Alick and Albert : the film in preview in St-Tropez

On Wednesday 13 October 2021, the documentary film “Alick and Albert”, directed by Douglas Watkins, opened the 23rd edition of the Festival du Cinéma des Antipodes in Saint-Tropez in the presence of H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco and several personalities.

August

Better protection of marine megafauna through social networks and artificial intelligence

Scientists from three joint research units (MARBEC, ENTROPIE and LIRMM) have just published a study using social networks and artificial intelligence to identify charismatic species of the marine megafauna of New Caledonia: dugongs, turtles and sharks. This work, entitled “Leveraging social media and deep learning to detect rare megafauna in video surveys”, is published in the international journal Conservation Biology.

July

Gombessa 6 Cap Corse. Back to the surface in Monaco

20 days expedition to try and unravel the mystery of the corallogenic rings off Cap Corse! The Gombessa 6 expedition flotilla, composed of the support and assistance vessel Pionnier, the catamaran Victoria IV and the barge from the French National Institute of Professional Diving (INPP), arrived in the port of Monaco late on Monday 19 July. The four aquanauts: Laurent Ballesta, Antonin Guilbert, Thibaut Rauby and Roberto Rinaldi exited the “bathyal station” the next day, Tuesday 20 July at 6 pm, after completing their decompression cycle.

July

Gombessa 6: Cap Corse

Corsica

After Gombessa 5: Mediterranean Planet in July 2019, the “Gombessa 6: Cap Corse ” expedition, led by Laurent Ballesta and the Andromeda Oceanology team, is once again dedicated to the Big Blue. This new adventure to discover the deep sea, which began in May, is supported by the Principality of Monaco, the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and Monaco Explorations.

June

Explorers and Citizens of the Seas: here we go again!

Launched in 2017 and aimed at middle and high school classes, the “Explorer and Citizen of the Seas” scheme is carried and supported by the Nice Academy’s Academic Delegation for Artistic and Cultural Education (DAAC). It is designed and implemented in partnership with the Monaco Oceanographic Museum and Monaco Explorations. The call for projects for the 2021-2022 school year is online.

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