Culture – 4 chapters
According to UNESCO, there are around 3 million shipwrecks that sleep peacefully at the bottom of our seas and oceans. With the second largest marine area in the world, France has decided to go to war against the plunder of the remaining wrecks. But is it even possible? For almost a year, OCEAN71 Magazine led a lengthy investigation that took us at the heart of the French authorities and the ocean looters.
Every summer, the oysters’ consumption in Arcachon bay is threatened by the presence of a micro-seaweed, revealed by biological and chemical tests. The oyster farmers accuse theses analysis of not being entirely accurate. The real reason would be a much more dangerous pollution situation, mostly linked to human activities.
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia is known as one of the greatest natural wonders on Earth. Nonetheless, the reef has been for the past decade under series of environmental, touristic, industrial and commercial aggressions that threaten its existence. OCEAN71 Magazine has decided to investigate in order to understand what would justify to talk one day about the Great Barrier Reef in past tense.
