🎃 Amid all the horrors of the moment, we preferred to spread a wave of sweetness for Halloween 💦
Here are some of our favorite sea monsters – 100% cute, 0% scary!
🔥 The Hypselodoris picta, a flamboyant sea slug, draws its toxicity from the sponges it eats, a true chemical shield against predators.
🐴 The pygmy seahorse, masters of camouflage, are so tiny they could fit on a fingernail.
🐑 The nudibranch “Shawn the Sheep,” a star of tropical reefs measuring barely 5 mm, ingests chloroplasts from the algae it eats. The result: it can perform photosynthesis.
🐡 The pufferfish, looking like an adorable little baby, is actually 1,200 times more toxic than cyanide!
🦎 The axolotl, the eternal one, capable of regenerating its limbs, organs, and even parts of its brain!
Because even in the midst of horror, nature remains full of beauty. 🌊💙
Can we still save corals in the face of global warming?
According to the latest Global Tipping Points Report from the University of Exeter, tropical coral reefs are dying on a massive scale.
➡️ Today, at +1.4°C, we have already crossed the critical threshold.
If we don’t reduce our emissions and reach +1.5°C, coral reefs will have a more than 99% chance of tipping, a point of no return for these essential ecosystems.
It is urgent to find more systemic and long-term solutions.
❌ There’s no point in transplanting doomed corals.
At Pure Ocean, we support scientific approaches that rethink reef restoration from the ground up:
💡 Reef Reborn: boosting coral reproduction with a lipid cocktail to increase larval survival rates. This also makes them more resilient to warming – UTS
🪶 Birds on Sticks: strengthening reefs by restoring the entire ecosystem, from corals to seabirds. More birds = more nutrients = healthier, more resilient corals – University of Essex
🧬 SymbioSwap: the first step in coral death is the loss of symbiotic algae due to heat. This project investigates whether warm-water algae could offer hope for the adaptation of temperate corals, such as those in the Mediterranean – University of Perpignan
🐠 Yaf Keru Impact: heat sensitivity is worsened by human pressures and destructive fishing practices. Yaf Keru Impact shows that by choosing more sustainable methods (no dynamite, no cyanide), reefs and the services they provide can come back to life – Planète Mer
🧭 It’s time to activate positive tipping points.
Every innovation, every project, every donation can help tip the balance in the right direction.
👉 Support the science that helps reefs adapt to climate change.
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Yesterday, we teamed up with the living, and it was a great collective victory!
What a joy to be part of this buzzing ecosystem of ideas and energy, where scientists, companies, and committed actors come together around a shared conviction:
Protecting nature means drawing inspiration from it.
Congratulations to Alain Renaudin and the entire Biomim’expo team for an outstanding organization – 1,300 participants, 130 exhibitors, 80 speakers, all in perfect symbiosis with life.
Thank you to everyone who visited the Pure Ocean booth to engage, play, and marvel during our three ocean quiz sessions, raising awareness among both young and old.
And a huge thank you to Planète Mer and Mickaël Racine, leader of the Yaf Keru Impact project, for his passionate discussions on coral restoration in Raja Ampat.
It was also a great opportunity to meet our partners, patrons, and project leaders, like our booth neighbors Rougerie Tangram, showcasing the Floating Reef. Our whole circle of Pure Ocean Lovers was gathered.
Together, we continue to team up with nature to shape the future.
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What if our emotions changed the way we understand science?
Today, we visited the leaders of the MICROCEAN project, supported by Pure Ocean since 2024, for an experience as immersive as it was scientific 💡
🧠 Their mission: to make the essential role of plankton in climate regulation understandable—a topic that can sometimes feel distant or complex.
But what if we approached it differently… through emotion?
That’s exactly the goal of their experimental event EMOCEAN:
👉 studying the impact of emotional conditioning on the assimilation of ocean-related scientific data.
In other words, do we learn better when we feel?
We dove into a sensory and scientific journey: images, sounds, videos, infographics, hands-on activities… and even a magical moment of marine bioluminescence! ✨
Followed by a questionnaire to share our impressions and contribute to their psychological science study.
👏 Congratulations to Fanny and Pauline, PhD students at the Laboratory of Social Psychology (LPS) and the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO), for this inspiring and innovative project.
📅 Want to participate? The EMOCEAN experience is open to the public until October 31 at the CUBE, on the Aix-en-Provence campus.
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The equivalent of a 10 m × 5 m swimming pool completely filled with waste 🤯. That’s HUGE! Imagine if all of that had ended up in the ocean…
💙 Thank you to all the companies that took part in the La Goutte Bleue Challenge during European Sustainable Development Week!
This year, over 2,600 employees mobilized to take concrete action for the ocean, collecting 80,000 liters of waste before it reached the sea. An exceptional effort that shows we must act collectively against this real threat. 🙌
💧 As you know, every second, 250 kg of plastic flows into the ocean. A cleanup may seem small compared to the scale of the problem—and reducing single-use plastic remains a priority. But these actions are essential: they raise awareness, engage your teams, and turn them into agents of change. 👏 A huge thank you to:
Arcanes, Carmila, Capsum, Cacatoès, CMSO Crédit Mutuel Sud-Ouest, CBRE, IBM Paris, IBM Marseille, IBM Belfort, IBM Toulouse, PROMAN and its 249 agencies, Société Générale, Naama.
💡 Thanks to your commitment, we turn an environmental emergency into collective, concrete action.
➡️ Let’s keep up the momentum! You can organize a La Goutte Bleue cleanup all year round. Interested? Get in touch!
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Mission coral: saving one of the planet's most precious marine treasures.
In Raja Ampat, Indonesia, coral reefs are still biodiversity gems… but they are under threat.
Mickael Racine, a PhD student in marine ecology at Planète Mer / University of Montpellier, closely monitors the restoration of these reefs alongside local communities.
With the Yaf Keru Impacts project, he analyzes coral health, fish diversity, and the impact on local populations, demonstrating that protecting reefs also ensures food security for the inhabitants.
👉 A dive into a unique ecosystem, where science and communities work hand in hand.
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Pure Ocean is proud to welcome a new duo of committed ambassadors!
Audrey Ogereau & Erwan Le Roux, skippers on Ocean Fifty, combine experience and passion to defend our ocean.
Audrey, a mechanical engineer and Olympic sailor, grew up on the water and has an unending thirst for challenges. As European Hobie Cat 16 vice-champion and Women’s America’s Cup competitor, she brings energy, technical expertise, and boldness to this exceptional duo.
Erwan, two-time winner of the Route du Rhum and multiple winner of the Transat Jacques Vabre, is an iconic figure in ocean racing. With an outstanding track record, he embodies performance, mentorship, and commitment.
Together, they are more than just a team: they represent a powerful human adventure, driven by a common goal – to push their limits while raising awareness about the urgent need to protect the ocean.
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