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Team Malizia has deployed an Argo float from Malizia - Seaexplorer during The Ocean Race 2023 in order to collect rare data from this remote part of the Ocean.

From the South Atlantic Ocean, 05 February 2023

UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

. At 1450 hours UTC on 4 February 2023, Team Malizia deployed the Argo float from 

near to Brazil (25°30' S, 32°00' W) - the location and its path can be viewed 

, who is skippering Leg 2 of The Ocean Race, replacing 

 for this leg, commented: “I studied Oceanography at University and therefore having the opportunity to 

help scientists better understand the state and condition

 of our Ocean is really interesting for me. Boris and I deployed a surface drifter during the Transat Jacques Vabre 2019 and Boris also deployed an Argo float during the Vendée Globe 2020-21. It is really 

 considering the benefit the data is providing to the scientific community and the climate operational centres.”

 weighing about 20 kg, has been deployed in a specific zone determined by scientists and their scientific needs. It will stay around this region for 4-5 years and will 

automatically send temperature, salinity and pressure data from the top 2,000 m

 of the Ocean back home every few days. The float was provided by the 

, Ship Coordinator at OceanOPS, commented: “We have been working with Boris Herrmann and Team Malizia for many years, it is great that teams like this are willing to help and contribute to scientific knowledge. These instruments are helping scientists to fill in critical observational gaps and collect crucial data in very remote areas. This partnership is 

 especially as these race vessels travel “off the beaten path” and are therefore able to deploy Argo floats in remote areas.”

Like around 4000 others at the global scale, the Argo profiling float Team Malizia deployed will measure 

temperature, salinity and pressure profiles down to 2,000 m

. Every time the float surfaces, it will 

 to an international data centre where they are 

 for forecasters, climate researchers and other users. During Leg 3 of the race, the team will deploy

 who attend the team’s My Ocean Challenge workshop and 

 who are studying marine sciences. The idea is to unite and excite the younger generation around science and ocean data. 

, an automated laboratory, capable of measuring and transmitting valuable Ocean surface data like CO2 to their partners at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) and Ifremer. In 2020/21 Boris Herrmann collected the 

first-ever nonstop data lap of the world's Ocean

 and also the most data collected by one vessel in a year. The team intends to continue this tradition by completing another lap of the world in data for The Ocean Race. 

 on the sails of their 60-foot IMOCA race yacht with the mission to inspire ambitious climate action around the world. With their scientific programme the team can go a step further and really contribute to the understanding of our Ocean, the impact man made CO2 has on our Ocean, the interdependence of climate and Ocean and where the limits lie.

Team Malizia is strongly supported by its 

: the Yacht Club de Monaco, EFG International, Zurich Group Germany, Kuehne+Nagel, and MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, Hapag-Lloyd, and Schütz. These partners band behind Team Malizia to support its 

A Race We Must Win – Climate Action Now!

 mission, each of them working towards projects in their own field to innovate around climate solutions.