Published on January 3, 2025 at 10:41 p.m. / Modified on January 3, 2025 at 10:45 p.m.
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Throughout the tenth edition of the Vendée Globe, the most prestigious of nautical races, “Le Temps” will offer an immersive story by journalist Virginie Troussier, who will navigate between strategy, trajectory, weather conditions and confidences from participants. A series designed as both a sporting and philosophical exploration of the relationship between the sailor and the ocean.
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A Vendée Globe is 360 degrees of sea. The physical sensation, for sailors, sometimes to the point of oppression, of a perfect, absolute, immutable circle, which permanently envelops them and moves with them. It is the world that surrounds them, the one that they have chosen, and they are nothing more than winds, currents, swells, waves in search of the next one, a wake without a trace. The impression, if on-board computers did not exist, and if the geography of certain countries was not drawn digitally, of sailing in an endless ocean.
This week, some browsers took the true size of the globe. The earth has surfaced. Detections of icebergs, which measure between 60 and 100 square meters, have been reported north of the Antarctic Exclusion Zone. A significant event, especially since the last sailor to have seen an iceberg during the event was Samantha Davies, in 2008. In a state of alert, the race management immediately informed the skippers and remains mobilized to provide updates. regular day.
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