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A new ambassador joins the Pure Ocean adventure!
A new ambassador joins the Pure Ocean adventure!
Nous sommes fiers d’accueillir Thibault Dauvillier, entrepreneur audacieux et passionné de la mer, parmi nos ambassadeurs. Depuis ses premiers bords sur les côtes bretonnes à l’âge de 8 ans, la voile ne l’a jamais quitté. Moniteur dès 16 ans, il a rapidement goûté à la compétition avant de mêler sa vie professionnelle à sa passion pour le large.
Aujourd’hui, il se lance un défi de taille : participer à la Mini Transat 2025, une traversée de l’Atlantique en solitaire !
Ses années passées à naviguer sur tous l’océan lui ont ouvert les yeux sur l’urgence de protéger notre planète bleue. C’est pourquoi à bord de son bateau ALLEZ-HOP, il portera fièrement les couleurs de Pure Ocean lors de cette grande aventure, pour sensibiliser à l’urgence de préserver l’océan et soutenir la recherche scientifique.
Un grand merci à Thibault pour son engagement ! 🙏
C’est grâce à nos ambassadeurs et ambassadrices que nos messages rayonnent et inspirent à l’action.

[RE]immerse yourself in the magic of the Gala de l’Océan ✨
Deep into the magic of the Gala de l'Ocean
Glittering eyes, shared laughter, an unforgettable atmosphere, and a single goal: to protect the Ocean.
Here’s a look back at this unique evening on the shores of the Mediterranean, where more than 250 leaders made a commitment to science and the living world.
👉 Watch the video of the Gala de l’Océan 2025!
Strong emotions, suspended moments, knowing smiles… It was simply magical.
And above all: €63,000 raised thanks to your generosity, to fund scientific projects for the benefit of the Ocean.
Thank you to everyone who makes this possible. You’re wonderful 💫
We can’t thank you enough:
Allegoria Studio | Anova Hôtel et Spa | Artefacts Music | Bel- Air Fine Art | Blue Wave Project | Borg Marseille | Bruno Fabre – Collection le Manifeste Jaune | CATLANTE Catamarans | Cédric Rouzé | Chanel | Crédit Mutuel Arkéa | EMCG | Festival à la Bonne Mère | Florent Touchot | FROJO 1854 | Gas Bijoux | Greta Boato | JM Ranaivoson | La Casa Delauze | Lauranne Schied | Le Saule Pleureur | Le Treizième Homme | Ludovic Gerard | Lulli | Yonathan Chamla & Romain Rudondy (Maison R&C) | Mahn Kloix | Marie- Kell de Cannart | Marie- Kell de Cannart | Marie- Kell de Cannart Kell de Cannart | Marie Lacoste | Matthieu Jalibert | Milhe et Avons | Nathalie Simon | Nikola Karabatic | Odile Moulin | Olympique de Marseille | Orient Express Racing Team | PICXCELL – Groupe PICOURT | Protocole Agency | Roland Paix Traiteur | Sébastien Arcouet | SeventyOne Percent | SOLIVE | Sophie Barranes | Sophie Salerno | Thalie Testot-Ferry | Tony Viacara | Violette Dorange | Yohan Brandt |
Birds with 20% of their weight in plastic
Birds with 20% of their weight in plastic
On an isolated island, far from any human activity.
These are the frightening findings of the latest mission by the Adrift Lab, who are behind the SynSen project, which we have been supporting for several years. This field season on Lord Howe Island, 600km off the coast of Australia, was one of the toughest: the seabirds studied were literally full of plastic. Up to 20% of their total weight. One of them had even ingested 800 pieces of plastic!
These shearwaters, migratory birds that travel between Australia and Japan every year, became so heavy that they could no longer return… or even leave. Tragic. And yet it’s only part of the problem.
📉 This invisible pollution is slowly killing us.
The SynSen project is studying the impact of microplastics on DNA and cellular ageing, in relation to a disease recently identified by the team: plasticosis, a cellular disorder caused by plastic, comparable to cancer.
⚠️ What these birds are experiencing is a warning, backed up by incontrovertible data: our way of life is threatening the health of all living beings – including our own.
➡️ It’s high time we took this pollution seriously and adopted genuinely effective measures. Fast fashion, single-use plastics, over-consumption: all these practices are fuelling a system that is running out of steam, to the detriment of living things. How far will we go?
Many media outlets have covered their work – The Washington Post, ABC News, CNN… – but it’s still not enough. We’re counting on you to take these messages even further!
🙏 Thank you to the researchers on the ground. Thank you to our partners. Thank you to the sponsors who make this research possible.





UNOC is over. But the fight for the ocean, NO
The UNOC is over. But the fight for the ocean, NO
The ocean has suddenly appeared on the public agenda in recent days. At long last!
But how long will it remain visible? How long before it again becomes the forgotten item on our political, economic and media agendas?
And yet the study by Utopies, published this week in Le Monde, makes no bones about it:
‘The ocean is still largely absent from corporate strategies, even though 40% of jobs in France depend on the marine environment’.
The figure is staggering.
⛔ To see the ocean as a “secondary” issue is to ignore the extent to which it underpins our value chains, even far from the coasts.
⛔ If we fail to measure our impact on marine environments, we are unwittingly contributing to their degradation.
👉 The time is right. Awareness must not be allowed to fade with the end of a summit. But how?
A simple starting point: today, less than 3% of the world’s research budgets are devoted to the oceans.
Even though it covers more than 70% of our planet, regulates our climate, absorbs carbon, generates oxygen and feeds billions of people. This imbalance speaks volumes. It reflects the invisibility of the ocean in our collective priorities – economic, political, scientific. We protect poorly what we understand little. And we understand little about what we neglect to look at.
Given this situation, there is one thing we can do: support research.
Funding science means strengthening our collective resilience and combating misinformation, by favouring knowledge, transparency and proof over approximations and slogans.
At Pure Ocean, this is our commitment.
To support science, to make the link between knowledge and action, and to involve the economic players in this dynamic. Because protecting the ocean starts with understanding it.
So, will you let the ocean be forgotten again?
➡️ Support the ocean, support research: https://www.pure-ocean.org/soutenez-nous/

What can we learn from the 3ᵉ United Nations Ocean Conference?
What can we learn from the 3ᵉ United Nations Ocean Conference?
From 9 to 13 June 2025 in Nice, 175 States, 64 Heads of State, 115 ministers and more than 12,000 delegates* met to discuss crucial issues for the ocean.
✅ Encouraging progress :
🔹 Acceleration of ratifications of the BBNJ Treaty for governance on the high seas,
🔹 Launch of the Neptune Mission, which will bring together oceanographic expertise and the best technologies, including space technology, to invest in useful knowledge that is freely accessible to all parties. It will provide the essential knowledge base for the implementation of the ‘BBNJ Agreement’.
🔹 A total of €8.7 billion committed over the next five years by philanthropists, private investors and public banks, in support of a sustainable and regenerative blue economy.
🔹 Against plastic pollution, 96 countries have signed the declaration ‘Nice wake up call for an ambitious plastics treaty’, ahead of the negotiations to be held in August 2024 in Geneva.
➡️ Given the urgency of the situation, however, these decisions remain insufficient and still lack binding force, particularly with regard to Marine Protected Areas, bottom trawling and Deep Sea Mining.
🤞 While political commitments remain too timid, civil society, scientists and other committed players have been able to make a noise and show their strength. A real source of hope with an unprecedented mobilisation!
For our part, the Pure Ocean team was fully mobilised ⤵️
🏊♂️ Watch The Sea For Pure Ocean: a committed sporting challenge to link performance and conscience,
🙌 A speech by David Sussmann at the Blue Economic Finance Forum,
🤝 A side event at Plage Beau Rivage with our sponsors, partners and project leaders: a link, meaning and action.
🐋 3 highlights at La Baleine :
Presentation of the Floating Reef project
Conference on plastic pollution and the projects we support
Screening of our documentary HIDDEN SECRET
👥 And above all, hundreds of meetings!
The UNOC has shown that while the political will still needs to be strengthened, the mobilisation of civil society is stronger than ever. We leave determined to carry the voice of science to protect the future of us all. 👊
*unocnice2025.org figures












“Athletes for Science”: when sport and science join forces for the ocean
“Athletes for Science”: when sport and science join forces for the ocean
At Pure Ocean, we’ve always been convinced that athletes are excellent vehicles for commitment.
In contact with the ocean on a daily basis, they are the first witnesses of its degradation – and their word, followed and listened to, can change things!
At the UNOC – United Nations Ocean Conference, the Climate Sport Camp athletes launched a remarkable initiative: ‘Athletes for Science’.
Its aim? To create concrete links between top-level sport and scientific research, to better understand and protect the ocean, climate and biodiversity.
This programme already brings together 50 renowned athletes, determined to team up with the living world.
🙌 Among this amazing team? Our ambassador Ainhoa Leiceaga, of whom we are extremely proud! A champion surfer and scientist herself, she took the floor to share her commitment and experience at the launch. It was an exceptional opportunity, and one that was full of meaning and authenticity!
The project is supported by public institutions, in particular the Ministry of Sport, represented on site by Marie Barsacq, Minister for Sport, Youth and the Voluntary Sector. A number of leading figures from the world of sport and science were also present to bear witness to the strength of this collective dynamic: Anne Dos Santos (FFVoile), Flora Artzner, Arthur Le Vaillant, Armelle Courtois, Pauline Johanet, Mathieu Navillod, Marie Chauchè, Jean-Baptiste Bosson, Serge Planes, Philippe Terral, and many others.
👏 Well done to the 50 athletes involved and to all those who have supported this initiative with such conviction!





How can we protect Mediterranean marine habitats?
How can we protect Mediterranean marine habitats?
This was the big question of our intervention at the UNOC in Nice, as part of the event ‘An archipelago of solutions for the ocean, climate and biodiversity’.
📍 On 11 June, at the Whale – the green zone of the 3rd United Nations Ocean Conference – we were invited by the ocean climate platform to take part in the session:
Taking action in the Mediterranean: protect, restore, mobilise.
🎤 Charlie, our scientific coordinator, took the opportunity to present the Floating Reef project, a promising initiative supported by Rougerie Tangram, the GIS Posidonie and the Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography MIO, to restore degraded marine ecosystems.
We were lucky enough to share the stage with:
🔹 Anaïs Massé – Fondation de la Mer
🔹 Camille RICHER – BlueMove
🔹 Bruno Dumontet – MED Expedition
💬 A round table brilliantly moderated by Victor Brun of the Ocean & Climate Platform (and former leader of the Shama project! 😉)
🎥 To find out more and (re)experience this powerful moment, watch the video here!
🙏 A huge thank you to Ocean & Climate Platform and Anaïs Deprez for their invitation and trust.
#UNOC: an evening to bring people together and take action
#UNOC: an evening to bring people together and take action
On Monday evening, for our side event at #UNOC, the United Nations Ocean Conference, we were delighted to bring together our precious ecosystem for a unique evening on the Beau Rivage beach in Nice.
🤝 Passionate patrons,
🔬 Scientific project leaders,
💙 Pure Ocean Lovers always on hand…
A high point to celebrate innovation, encounters and transmission together, the pillars of our action at Pure Ocean.
These moments of exchange are essential: they fuel our energy, strengthen our convictions and remind us why we are committed to the Ocean every day.
Thank you all for your presence, your support and your infectious enthusiasm.
Your energy has reinvigorated us so that we can continue to make the voice of science ring out loud and clear for a truly protected ocean.
Watch the Sea For Pure Ocean: challenge met!
Watch the Sea For Pure Ocean: Challenge met!
This weekend, young people from the Contact Club and members of Watch The Sea completed a human and committed adventure: more than 8 km of swimming at sea between Monaco and Nice, by strength of arms and heart, guided by Watch The Sea and supported at sea by Le Chant des Voiles.
🔥 Together, these swimmers have proved that courage, solidarity and commitment can make the ocean’s voice heard and change things. Their arrival in Nice on 8 June, World Ocean Day, during UNOC 3 – the United Nations Ocean Conference, marks a powerful gesture for our blue lung. And it was all the more symbolic because it was also the birthday of one of the young participants!
🕓 In total, 6h30 of swimming spread over two days – 4h on Saturday, 2h30 on Sunday – in an admirable collective dynamic.
♻️ This observation mission enabled us to recover a lot of waste. Little pollution between Cap d’Ail and Beaulieu: an encouraging sign that some areas are becoming cleaner.
🎯 An adventure with a message: the ocean needs us.
💙 A huge thank you to :
Each participant for his or her exceptional commitment,
The Watch The Sea team for this wonderful initiative,
Le Chant des Voiles for its support at sea and its welcome on board in Villefranche harbour,
The Contact Club for its grassroots work with young people and its spirit of adventure,
And the Mairie de Beaulieu-sur-Mer for its warm welcome on Place Marinoni.
All those who supported this project, at sea or on land.
🌍 This challenge is much more than a sporting effort: it’s a collective cry of hope to protect the ocean. And it’s only the beginning.





