PURE OCEAN: A LOOK BACK AT 2024, A YEAR RICH IN EMOTION AND IMPACT
As the year draws to a close, we are proud to share with you the highlights of 2024. Thanks to you, we have achieved extraordinary things, united by our passion for the ocean.
✅ 7 new scientific projects supported to protect the ocean
✅ An unforgettable Gala bringing ocean lovers together for a magical moment
✅ 1st documentary: Hidden Secret, a dive into the heart of our projects
✅ An ambitious European project: 1 year of collaboration to bring companies and scientists together
✅ Encounters, as many encounters as great ideas that have emerged from them
🫶 Thank you all for your unwavering commitment.
What a pleasure it has been to share this year with you: scientists, sponsors, sportsmen and women, friends, families, ocean enthusiasts… You are our strength and our inspiration. Let’s continue together to protect our precious blue lung.
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It's snowing in the ocean too!
Have you heard of marine snow?
No icy flakes underwater, but an equally magical phenomenon! Marine snow is a ballet of tiny particles formed from the remains of organisms and excrement, in which bacteria and plankton thrive. It’s a veritable microscopic world that comes together to form millimetre-sized flakes… which fall inexorably towards the abyss. A real feast for the inhabitants of the deep! 🐟
👉 Plant plankton is at the heart of this cycle: it captures CO₂ at the surface and, once dead, forms a large part of this ‘snow’. The undigested organic matter during its fall finally joins the sediments of the seabed, storing carbon for millions of years. Oceanic plankton is thus at the heart of the regulation of the world’s atmospheric climate. This phenomenon helps to absorb almost 30% of man-made carbon dioxide emissions!
🔴 But our activities are threatening this natural cycle.
Direct overfishing of planktonic species, particularly krill for its oil, is drastically reducing the quantities of plankton. Marine pollution, such as plastics and heavy metals, further complicates the situation. These pollutants reduce the size of plankton and impair their ability to carry out their vital functions, thereby affecting the ocean’s carbon cycle.
🌡️Global warming is also jeopardising this vital mechanism. Changes in plankton populations caused by rising temperatures are altering the diversity of plankton, potentially disrupting the formation of marine snow, reducing its effectiveness in feeding the deep sea and storing carbon.
🎄 In this festive season, let’s think about preserving this incredible underwater world, the guarantor of our climate balance. 💙
Thanks to the MICROCEAN project team and their colleague Melvak for this video 🙏 As part of this project, Pauline Le coq is studying this magical phenomenon to decipher its mysteries ❄️
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The Pure Ocean team wishes you a very happy festive season!
We’re setting sail for a festive break! After a year rich in action for our ocean, the team is taking some time off to recharge its salty batteries. We’ll be back in 2024 with even more energy to protect the big blue!
During this time, we’re counting on you to take care of yourself. Treat yourself to some rest, some time to recharge your batteries, and surround yourself with the things that bring you joy and serenity. And why not take the opportunity to rediscover calm and tranquillity in contact with nature?
Thank you for your support throughout the year, and we look forward to continuing this wonderful adventure together in the service of the ocean.
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Pure Ocean Story : Climate change, the 3rd cause of the collapse of marine biodiversity ️
The ocean is on the front line of climate change. It has already absorbed 93% of the heat generated by our greenhouse gas emissions. That’s the equivalent of the energy released by the explosion of 7 Hiroshima bombs. Every second. 💥
👉 From marine heat waves to forced species migrations and coral bleaching, the impacts are multiple and alarming.
Climate change is not just a challenge: it’s an emergency. Limiting the use of fossil fuels is essential to preserve the fragile balance of marine ecosystems.
📽️ Discover our new Pure Ocean Stories video to better understand these issues and take action for the future of the ocean!
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A look back at a year of collaboration between companies and scientists for the ocean
In 2024, we led SOS – Sharing Ocean Science. This ambitious project brought together scientists, businesses and NGOs around an ambitious mission: to work together to devise sustainable solutions to protect the ocean.
📌 Why this project?
The ocean, essential to our survival, is under serious threat from our activities: pollution, overfishing, global warming, etc. We are convinced that effective cooperation between the economic and scientific worlds is key to changing the game, and the world of science has a major role to play in transforming our models towards sustainable practices.
An unprecedented partnership and concrete advances
Over the course of several stages, we have brought our consortium together in each of our countries, to draw inspiration from our respective practices and work in collective intelligence ⤵️
🔹 Marseille: Inspiration and Launch – The aim was to understand the needs of companies and scientists, while defining the main areas of collaboration.
🔹 Rome: Ideation and Co-creation – We came up with innovative solutions to encourage cooperation between businesses and scientists.
🔹 Samos: Prototyping and Development – creating effective, scalable tools that enable meaningful long-term action while meeting the needs of each company.
🔹 Marseille – Ocean Impact Forum: Closing and Validation – A unifying event bringing together more than 100 decision-makers to share the results of the Ocean Impact Forum.
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Offer your customers a unique experience: the Gala de l'Océan 2025!
Imagine your partners, gathered together in an exceptional seaside setting, celebrating the ocean during an unforgettable evening. A moment to share with committed and passionate leaders.
🎯 Why book now?
A table is more than 10 seats: it’s an act for the ocean.
Book before the end of the year and benefit from a tax deduction for 2024!
📅 Join us on 3 June 2025 at Casa Delauze to write a new page of solidarity and action to preserve our blue planet.
Book your table today: contact us: partners@pure-ocean.org
A great way to say thank you and support ocean research at the same time!
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Votre soutien en action : des tests polaires pour l'océan !
Good progress for the Citizen into Science project! This summer, it was around Greenland that Christophe Van Dongen and the crew of the SY Cavalou put Oceanovox’s VOX-1 satellite box to the test. This polar expedition, a pioneering example of participatory science, initiated the collection of oceanographic data by citizens in this remote region.
Did you know that there are around 14,000 pleasure craft on the high seas every year, compared with just a hundred or so scientific campaigns? This is where Citizen into Science really comes into its own: bringing together yachtsmen and scientists to collect oceanographic data that is essential for preserving our oceans.
Supported since 2023, this Ifremer project is proving its worth. Thanks to the VOX-1 satellite box developed by OceanoVox, yachts can now automatically monitor weather conditions on the high seas, while being tracked in real time via nano-satellites. The VOX-2 box, currently under development, will enable surface water analysis (salinity, phytoplankton, temperature, etc.) to be added.
The results will be fed into the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) and will help to create a ‘digital twin’ of the ocean, for a better understanding of its evolution.
Tests in polar environments are a key step towards exploring areas that are still inaccessible and gaining a better understanding of our ocean.
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Yesterday we had the pleasure of visiting Pauline and Fanny, winners of our 2024 call for projects, in their laboratory at MIO (Institut Méditerranéen d’Océanologie).
Their mission is fascinating:
🧬 To understand the role of oceanic microorganism diversity in climate regulation.
🔦 To shed light on the crucial issues facing the deep ocean.
The ocean, our planet’s true blue lung, sequesters a portion of atmospheric CO2 through the “biological carbon pump.” This process, essential to climate regulation, depends on the richness and abundance of plankton, but how it works in the abyss remains largely unknown.
💡 Thanks to your support, Pauline, a PhD student in microbial oceanography is exploring this mystery by sequencing the DNA of deep-sea plankton, while Fanny, a scientific mediator and PhD student in environmental psychology is studying how society perceives and interacts with these oceanic microorganisms.
What a pleasure to have been able to get as close as possible to science by visiting their laboratory. A big thank you to Pauline and Fanny for this moment!
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What better way to end the month of November than alongside 250 Pure Ocean Lovers!
Thursday November 28 was Ocean Night, a unique moment shared with our partners, sponsors, ambassadors, families and friends, to teach you more about the ocean, discover our actions and the progress of our projects.
🎥 We were honored to broadcast our first Pure Ocean documentary: HIDDEN SECRET. Directed by Clément Pourtal and Jérôme Brousse (The Blue Quest). This virtual voyage to the Aegean highlighted several Pure Ocean projects, made possible thanks to your support. Together we set out to discover the Mediterranean’s treasure trove: coralligenous. We were amazed to see such magnificent images!
Another highlight: our ambassador Ainhoa Leiceaga told us about her special bond with the ocean, on which she has surfed since childhood. It was an inspiring testimony that stirred the emotions – thank you, Ainhoa!
Thank you all, your smiles and support made this evening exceptional, and warmed our hearts. Until next year!
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