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The Aka Pygmies : a threatened freedom.

Par teddy, jeudi 28 février 2008 à 18:05.


Granted as “Intangible Cultural Heritage” by UNESCO, the Pygmies are considered the first inhabitants of Central Africa. In the past, they covered the whole rainforest located in the southwest of the country, searching for wild mushrooms, edible roots and game animals. Throughout their history, the pygmies have developed highly specific skills related to hunting, dancing, music and pharmacopoeia. In recent years, globalization has begun to catch up to them, making this nomadic people a more sedentary agricultural population settled around cities and villages. Still mostly unknown to most inhabitants of Central Africa, the Aka attempt to preserve a traditional way of life while modernizing and liberating themselves from the slavering grip of Bantou families. Caught between inequitable trade and pure exploitation working on villagers’ plantations, these Aka Pygmies have also become the focus of all the monotheist proselytes.

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Pêche à la langouste dan le petit port de Centuri (Cap Corse)

Par teddy, jeudi 28 février 2008 à 15:26.


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The slaves of the sea

Par teddy, mercredi 27 février 2008 à 11:36.


Ten years after the “moratorium” which prevented people from fishing cod in Newfoundland, the flotilla of trawlers fit for sea-fishing has almost completely disappeared. “Grande Hermine”, a 65-meter long trawler began her career in St Pierre and Miquelon on big shoals around 20 years ago. It was the ultimate chapter of an adventure which lasted for over three centuries. The whole history of fishing in Normandy, Brittany, the Basque Country and of course Saint Pierre et Miquelon was built around trawler fishing and their departures for the Newfoundland shoals. The seamen have known for a long time that they are the last representatives of a profession which is doomed. They usually go fishing above the polar circle, in the Barents Sea where the Norwegian coast guards keep them under strict control. There they are fishing, from 12 to 18 hours a day, 7 days a week, spending two to three months on some of the most hostile seas in the world, attracted by the “white gold” but above all passionate about a job that most of them have been doing since they were teenagers.

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CAP CORSE, IMMERSION ON THE ANCIENT WINE TRAIL.

Par teddy, mercredi 27 février 2008 à 11:03.


Discovered by 34 m depth off the Corsica Cape, the wreck « Western Giraglia 2 » is what one could commonly call a " pinardier". These Roman ships sailed about the 1st century after JC; they transported bulk-wine in big earthenware jars from 2.000 to 3.000 liters called dolia. Although it probably suffered from trawling activity, the wreck offers at least 3 undamaged dolia, very few amphoras (some Dressel 2-4 of Tarraconaise) as well as an important part of its hull in place.

The importance of this wreck falls under the series of the wrecks with dolia discovered in the North-Western Mediterranean but still relatively badly known. Tankers of which the marketing activity, mainly established between the Augustan era and the 1st century after JC, was located between Italy, Spain and Gaulle. From an economic standpoint, the study of these wrecks enables to highlight a novel mode of transport for which the stamps found on the dolia reveal that it was set up by a family of ship-owners located at Minturnes (in southernmost Latium), the Piranis. On about fifteen wrecks with dolia discovered, very little indeed offered part of their hull in good state and very little were ransacked and published in an exhaustive way.

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Printemps du jazz... (Nîmes)

Par teddy, dimanche 17 février 2008 à 21:28.


Archie Shepp.

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The shipwrecks of La Natiere : a Major French excavation site

Par teddy, samedi 16 février 2008 à 12:59.


Discovered at the end of 1994 or in the spring of 1995 by spearfishermen, the site of La Natiere was kept secret and some looting occurred for nearly a year until an enquiry by DRASSM, -the Department of Underwater Archaeological Research- led to its discovery being officially declared in September 1995. A pre disturbance survey was carried out in 1996 by Archaeologists from DRASSM and since 1999 the site has been the subject of a vast scientific study, becoming the largest underwater archaeological excavation project in France in the last ten years.

The site of La Natiere, named after the reef where it lies, is located on the eastern side of the main shipping channel into the Port of St Malo, a north Breton town, famous in France for its rich Maritime history, especially the activities of its corsaire ships in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Because of the tides, the depth on site varies between 8 and 18 metres, It is continuously scoured by violent currents, which originate in part from the large tidal range of up to 10 metres, and also because the hydroelectric tidal barrage of the Rance Estuary nearby confuses and accentuates the local current patterns. The rocks of La Natiere are amongst the most dangerous of the shallows and rocky outcrops which ring the entrance to St Malo. They are made even more hazardous by the currents that swirl around them and also by the fact that they frequently lurk just below but rarely break the surface during the year. They are in fact a veritable ship trap. Ones’s characteristic of this site is the remarkable state of preservation of the remains. This is in part a product of the topography of the rocky slope which has protected the wrecks against the effects of the swell, and more recently against the activity of fishing boats. Additionally, the nearby presence of a very active river probably meant that the wrecks were quickly covered and protected by silts.

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Vanikoro: looking for Lapérouse...

Par teddy, vendredi 15 février 2008 à 12:49.


On March 15th, 1788, after two and a half years of navigation through many oceans, the expedition led by Jean-François Galaup, count of Lapérouse ended in a violent storm below the cliffs of the island of Vanikoro in the Solomon archipelago. In April, 2005, the biggest expedition ever organized to look for Lapérouse since Dumont Durville in 1827, landed on the island of Vanikoro. In the same spirit as the century of enlightenment, Vanikoro 2005 was a multidisciplinary expedition of scientists embarked aboard Jacques Cartier, a French naval vessel. Archaeologists, a geometrician, geophysicist, entomologist, linguist, writer, painter, doctor, dendrochronologist, so many specialists, all united around the same purpose, to investigate the «mystery of Lapérouse». During the wreck of 1788, both expedition vessels, «l'Astrolabe» and «La Boussole» sank, one on the site known as «la fausse passe», (the false paasage) and the other one on the site known as «la faille» (the rift). It is on the vessel contained in this rift that the researches essentially concentrated this year. One of the key questions whose answer depended on successfully identifying the wreck was whether Mr. De Lapérouse was one of the survivors who lived for several months on the island after the wreckings. Only the sailors who were aboard the ship which ran aground on the false pass would have been able to survive; the violence of the wreck in the rift leaves no doubt as to the disastrous fate of its crew. So the discovery, this year of a sextant signed by M. Mercier supported the hypothesis that the wreck in the rift is probably «La Boussole» the flagship commanded by Lapérouse. Other navigational instruments such as the azimuth compass, as well as personal objects belonging to the scientific staff such as the astronomical telescope belonging to Lepaute d' Agelet the astronomer, show that this expedition was equipped with all the latest examples of 18th century technology.

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Underwater Photography

Par teddy, jeudi 14 février 2008 à 16:19.

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La série "RENDEZ-VOUS A PANARIVO !" exposé au festival PHOTO DE MER 2010

Par teddy, mardi 5 février 2008 à 15:38.


Le reportage de Teddy Seguin réalisé dans le canal du Mozambique en 2008 sera présenté dans la sélection officiel du prochain festival de la photo de mer du 9 avril au 2 mai à Vannes.

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