Mission Serpentine

France-Russia: more than 35 years of scientific collaboration

Back in 1969 was the first oceanic cooperation program between France and Russia and it was related to a field trip. This geosciences project was a milestone in the fruitful exchanges and group program between URSS, later Russia, and France.

The Professor Logatchev had a stopover in Brest in 2004 to give evidence of this old and still active collaboration between the two countries.

For 35 years, the aim of this collaboration has been to better understand the deep ocean as well as the ocean/mantle relations, to count out potential mineral resources and to understand the ecology of hydrothermal systems mineral resources and a preservation of the environment.