Mission CALLIOPE 23.1 Upgrades French Navy Seabed Operations
From 23 May to 3 June 2023, as a continuation of the CALLIOPE mission in October 2022, the Navy conducted its second seabed control operation. This mission, which took place…
BSAM Seine Watches Over Mediterranean Approaches
The main mission of the crew is to ensure the permanence of maritime safety while coastal pleasure and yachting traffic has become denser, during events such as the Cannes Film…
ORION 23 – Task Force 471 Put to the Test
It is between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Sunday March 5, a few dozen nautical miles from Toulon. A FREMM engaged in the ORION 23 exercise is the victim…
Collecting Plankton for Scientific Purposes From a Navy Vessel
From February 20 to 23, 2023, the Rhône metropolitan support and assistance building (BSAM) hosted scientists from the Plankton Planet project and the Ocean Institute of Sorbonne University for four…
Maritime Surveillance Mission for Loire
As soon as its operational upgrade (RANO) was confirmed, the metropolitan support and assistance vessel (BSAM) Loire , crew B, went off Corsica and the Gulf of Lion, for a…
Joint Training Between Loire and Abeille Méditerranée
It is in this context that the Loire has dedicated a long training of towing of the high seas with the Abeille Méditerranée recently arrived in its new port base…