His arrival in Toulon on September 28 did not go unnoticed. The Floating Instrument Platform (Flip), this former US Navy monitoring station turned scientific machine, arrived aboard the heavy package transport Happy Buccaneer on September 28 in Toulon, after a long transit from the Mexican port of Ensenada (southern California). It was then taken care … Read more
This is the recent discovery of an international team of researchers on the East Pacific Ridge, off the coast of Central America, at a depth of 2,500 meters. Tube worms, which live inside tubes that they secrete themselves. This is what an international team of researchers discovered during the summer of 2023, thanks to the … Read more
In the US stock market trading on the morning of the 28th, the market capitalization of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company led by the famous investor Warren Buffett (pictured), reached the $1 trillion range. Photo taken in May (2024 Reuters/Scott Morgan) 2024-08-28 14:28:00 #Berkshire #Hathaways #market #capitalization #exceeds #trillion #reflecting #confidence #Buffett
Consisting of the amphibious helicopter provider (PHA) Tonnerre and the Guépratte frigate, of the La Fayette kind (FLF), the amphibious group that carried out the Joan of Arc mission returned this yr to the Toulon naval base on Tuesday July 16. This, on the finish of a five-month deployment that noticed the 2 ships develop … Read more
After Cherbourg and Lanvéoc, the brand new H160 helicopters of the French Navy will perform the SPI alert (Rescue, Safety, Intervention) this week on the naval aviation base (BAN) of Hyères, within the Var. These machines, armed with the 32F flotilla, substitute the Dauphin of the 35F on this activity. Lower than a yr after … Read more
The French Navy carried out its first rescue train with one in every of its new Suffren class (SNA) nuclear assault submarines. These maneuvers, which included NATO’s NSRS system, befell final week off the coast of Toulon. For a number of days, SNA of the Suffren class, on this case the second within the sequence, … Read more
At the start of 2024, the Grand Port Maritime de Marseille presented its results for the year 2023. With the notable exception of passenger traffic, all its other activities are in decline. War in Ukraine, tensions in the Middle East, inflation… The international “deep geopolitical instability” is considered by its managers as one of the … Read more
The Kinaliada arrived on Monday, November 20 in Toulon for a three-day stopover in the French military port, noted Mer et Marine. If other vessels of the Turkish navy, such as Meko type frigates, come more or less regularly to Toulon, particularly when they are integrated into NATO naval groups, this is the first time … Read more
It indeed sports a brand new livery, the one signed by the architect Philippe Starck for the National Sea Rescue Society (SNSM). “This new graphic identity was imagined during the new fleet program but Philippe Starck adapted it from the outset to all models of the existing fleet. Thus, during technical stops of their boats, … Read more
The immense silhouette of the Utopia of the Seas, which had been growing for 14 months in form B of the Chantiers de l’Atlantique, shook in the early morning of Saturday September 16. After its launch and the opening of the hold on the Loire estuary, the giant liner, still devoid of functional propulsion, was … Read more