Pierre Quiroga, Pure Ocean ambassador, signs a superb performance by finishing 2ᵉ of the famous Transat Café L’Or in an Ocean Fifty.
Alongside Gaston Morvan, the two skippers of the WeWise Sailing Team crossed the Atlantic carrying the Pure Ocean colors high.
A remarkable human and sporting adventure ofdaring, mastery and passion for the ocean.
Bravo Pierre and Gaston! We’re very proud of you.
On the island of Pantelleria, Agnese Riccardi, PhD in marine ecology at the Polytechnic University of Marche, is investigating the disappearance of seagrasses, sponges, and gorgonians that structure Mediterranean seabeds.
🌿 With the PANTHER project, her team restores these key species to bring coastal habitats back to life and offer a future to local fishers. 3D photogrammetry, scientific monitoring, and community involvement make science a tangible lever for resilience.
👉 To learn more, discover Agnese on video!
On Wednesday, December 3, Pure Ocean invites you to Ocean Night, an evening where scientific research and emotion come together.
This year, our focus is Brazil:
Indeed, our Pure Ocean Documentary takes you to the heart of Northeast Brazil, where Meire Costa is reviving seaweed farming to heal the ocean and bring new life to coastal communities. This is the Regen Ocean Farms project, one of our 2024 award winners.
Flor do Mar is a testament to innovation and resilience, reminding us that ocean regeneration is possible and that every initiative can become the starting point for global change.
A documentary produced by ZEKEFILM promises to combine science and emotion to showcase the impact of this innovative project!
During this journey, we will also take a moment to review our work: presenting past actions, the progress of projects supported by your donations, and inspiring testimonials.
In short, a wonderful evening for Pure Ocean Lovers to close the year together.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025.
Registrations: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-nuit-de-l-ocean-2025-1734409177539 – Please note, ticket sales will close two days before the event. In case of cancellation, please notify us before this deadline.
A huge thank you to our generous patron Banque Populaire Méditerranée (BPMED) for hosting us at their premises.
Reserve your evening!
🎃 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. 🌊💙
👉 And you, which is your favorite “sea monster”?
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.
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.
And you, will you join the team?
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.
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!
Discover our two stars on video: passionate skippers, united by the desire to combine performance and commitment.
“The ocean is a space of freedom, adventure, and resources that must be better protected, regulated, and understood.”
Their next challenge: the Transat CAFÉ L’OR – Route du Café!
Departure this Sunday, October 26, from Le Havre, heading to Martinique aboard the Ocean Fifty trimaran Koesio!
Thank you, Audrey & Erwan, for carrying our colors in this legendary race!
The entire Pure Ocean team will be cheering you on, full speed ahead to Martinique!
Ten days later, the emotion is still there… Thank you all for this incredible day!
14 boats, 200 participants, and over €8,000 raised to support ocean research.
Thank you to everyone for your energy, your smiles, and your commitment.
We look forward to seeing even more of you next year to sail with us!
Thank you Jérome Brousse for the video.
