Several Vendée Globe skippers have agreed to launch 1 Argo float in the South Atlantic during their race around the globe. The position of the launch has been defined in collaboration with the scientists to enhance the world coverage of the existing float network. For this adventure, most of the floats have been adopted by a French school with the names of the children written on it.
The Argo floats drift and measure several parameters of the ocean including the temperature, the salinity and the oxygen of the seawater from 2000m deep to the surface.
As soon as these 10 floats identified by their international unique identifier (what we call the WMO code, a series of numbers) were launched by the skippers, as detailed in the table, they started to measure the sea parameters. This real time data has been continuously integrated into databases and is available to users through this product of the European Copernicus Marine service.
| Boat name | Skipper name | Float serial | WMO | Vidéo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| V&B MAYENNE | Maxime Sorel | AI3500-23FR008 | 1902729 | |
| SINGCHAIN | Jingkun Xu | AI3500-23FR009 | 5907135 | https://twitter.com/XJKRacingTeam/status/1863137962348683694 |
| OLIVER HEER OCEAN RACING | Oliver Heer | AI3500-23FR010 | 3902619 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugrzpm5l7d0 |
| FREELANCE.COM | Guirec Soudée | AI3500-23FR011 | 5907136 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1x9cbANbLA |
| NEXANS SOLO SAILOR | Fabrice Amedeo | AI3500-23FR012 | 6990673 | https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wdsdNrqAUbA |
| VULNERABLE 2 | Sam Goodchild | AI3500-23FR013 | 7902229 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1sMUK0gX1o |
| FOUSSIER | Sébastien Marsset | AI3500-23FR014 | 3902620 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvIOKNyMVBc |
| PAPREC ARKEA | Yoann Richomme | AI3500-23FR015 | 3902621 | https://www.youtube.com/shorts/J8Ouu67KCk8 |
| DMG MORI | Kojiro Shiraishi | AI3500-24FR001 | 3902622 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPPlpdhcIfA |
| NEW EUROPE | Szabi Weores | AI3500-24FR002 | 1902730 |
News written thanks to the support of Noé Poffa and Vincent Bernard (Ifremer, France)
To go further
- The European contribution to the Argo programme https://www.euro-argo.eu/
- The argo-day news made by Ifremer https://www.ifremer.fr/fr/actualites/argo-day-top-depart-pour-les-flotteurs-argo
- The Copernicus marine service https://marine.copernicus.eu/
