When the news broke at about 8:30 am on Friday morning we all started staring at each other at our Paris office. Chemical tanker YM Uranus, carrying 6,000 tons of pygas said to have been involved in collision with bulk freighter Hanjin Richzad. Both vessels were heading north, the former to Amsterdam and the latter [...]
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Exclusive – Oil hell in Nigeria, a Frenchman talks
Pierre* is an officer in the French merchant navy as there are thousands across the world. Yet, after a six-month mission to Nigeria, he returns with a first hand account. The experience of a man who has worked in the very closed oil world in the Gulf of Guinea. Pierre was not laid off. He [...]
Procida – wonder of the Mediterranean
Here are a few pictures of this island we visited during our 2009 expédition, and for which I came back for a French weekly magazine. Procida is a jewel of a kind that is now difficult to come by the Meditterranean sea. A dreamlike setting, inhabitants that nothing, or close to nothing comes to [...]
America’s Cup – Deception in the high seas
On February 8, Alinghi and BMW-Oracle will enter the 33rd edition of the legendary competition. Behind the two sea monsters, two businessmen have been waging a merciless war for two years. An investigation on murky waters. For the past two days Jean-Antoine Bonnaveau has been mad with impatience. Carrying his camera around his neck, a [...]
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Wally, the new stars of the seas
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