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🇫🇷 "Dans le nouveau format d’entraînement, la seule règle, c’est qu’il n’y a pas de règle."

Retour sur l'audition Ă  huit clos de l'@amiralVandier (@MarineNationale) devant l'@AN_Defense sur le #PLF2023.

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🇫🇷 "Le remplacement des patrouilleurs outre-mer est lancé avec la production de six nouveaux POM. Le premier d’entre eux, l’Auguste Bénébig, sera déployé en Nouvelle-Calédonie. Le 2e, qui est encore en construction, le sera en Polynésie française et le 3e à La Réunion." Image
🇫🇷 "Le sous-marin nucléaire d’attaque (SNA) #Suffren est en opération dans l’Atlantique. Le réacteur nucléaire du Duguay-Trouin, deuxième de la série, a divergé pour la première fois le 30 septembre." @amiralVandier
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Check out this beautiful *giant* siphonophore Apolemia recorded on #NingalooCanyons expedition. It seems likely that this specimen is the largest ever recorded, and in strange UFO-like feeding posture. Thanks @Caseywdunn for info @wamuseum @GeoscienceAus @CurtinUni @Scripps_Ocean
For more about these amazing creatures and their bewildering formations ("The whole thing looks like one animal, but it’s many thousands of individuals which form an entity on a higher level”) check out one of our previous @instagram posts: instagram.com/p/B9CXpzmBp-6/
Most frequent question so far: "How big is it?" we don't have exact size, but the #ROV pilot used #SuBastian and its lasers to estimate the size: this siphonophore’s outer ring measured in at 15m (49ft) diameter, so just that ring *alone* seems to be approximately 47m (154ft)!
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