Scientific diving in France: an overview of the current practices in science
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- Date de publi. : 14/05/2023
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Auteurs :
Régis HocdéGérard ThouzeauSophie BourquinLaurent BorelMathieu CoulangeJean-Pierre FéralÉric FeunteunStéphan JacquetPhilippe Le BrasLine Le GallSébastien LegrandPhilippe LenfantMario LepageCaroline PlayGilles SaragoniQuentin Schull
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Organismes :
MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation - MARBEC
Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR)
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Centre Camille Jullian - Histoire et archéologie de la Méditerranée et de l'Afrique du Nord de la protohistoire à la fin de l'Antiquité
Centre recherche en CardioVasculaire et Nutrition = Center for CardioVascular and Nutrition research
Hôpital Sainte-Marguerite [CHU - APHM]
Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
Biologie des Organismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques
Centre de Géo-Écologie Littorale
Centre Alpin de Recherche sur les Réseaux Trophiques et Ecosystèmes Limniques
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité
Département des Recherches Archéologiques Subaquatiques et Sous-Marines [Marseille]
Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditérranéens
Ecosystèmes aquatiques et changements globaux
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Centre de Formation et de Recherche sur les Environnements Méditérranéens
MARine Biodiversity Exploitation and Conservation - MARBEC
Résumé : The French National Committee for Scientific Diving (CNPS) takes on different tasks including acting as an observatory of occupational scientific diving practices and innovations (Thouzeau et al., 2019). Since 1991 in France, scientific diving has been recognized by law as an occupational sector and is therefore regulated with the aim to reduce the hyperbaric risk. Currently, French scientific diving encompasses many fields such as life sciences and ecology, geosciences, social & cultural sciences including archeology, health & food, engineering sciences, energy... Due to the existence of overseas territories - with France's maritime spaces representing the world's second largest exclusive economic zone - French territories display an extensive variety of submarine habitats. Furthermore, the historical richness of scientific diving in France has led the French scientific diving community to be involved in all oceans worldwide. All subaquatic ecosystems, from the polar regions to the tropical belt, from drowned karsts to freshwater and high altitude lakes, including mesocosms and artificial structures are studied by diving scientists. On top of the traditional diving methods (apnea, open circuit and hookah) scientific diving benefits in recent years from the use of closed-circuit rebreathers but also from combining CCR and saturation methods, which greatly enhanced the study of the mesophotic zones. In light of the diversity of environments, disciplines and scientific issues, scientific divers are continuously innovating to perform outstanding research. This presentation will outline the recent work of the last decade highlighting the importance of scientific diving in science (in France).Thouzeau G., Hocdé R., Beurier J.-P., Coulange M. et al. (2019). The French National Committee on Scientific Diving (CNPS): a key actor for developing scientific diving in France. 5th European Conference on Scientific Diving (ECSD), Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland, Apr 2019, Sopot, Poland. pp.61-62, doi:10.23708/fdi:010076263
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Hocde-et-al-2023 - Poster ECSD7 - Scientific diving in France an overview of the current practices in science vDef.pdf
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