how the French Navy will try to recover Kevin Escoffier on Jean Le Cam’s boat

November 30, 2016, off the Kerguelen Islands. Launched into a high-speed duel around the globe, Armel Le Cléac’h and Alex Thomson, alone on their monohull, experience the harshness of the Indian Ocean. And roaring mythical 40ths, “that awful cauldron that the sea has become», As Loïck Fougeron, an author-navigator in love with the great South, so aptly told it. Limited until then to our imagination, the reality of this other world then invites itself into our lounges thanks to the Nivôse surveillance frigate, which came to meet the first two of the Vendée Globe. The splendid and spectacular images captured by the Panther helicopter, testify to the harshness of the elements in these hostile regions.

Responsible for monitoring the maritime areas under French sovereignty in the Indian Ocean (Reunion Island, Mayotte, the French Southern and Antarctic Lands) and for combating illegal activities at sea (drug trafficking, illegal fishing, etc.), the Nivôse is found again, four