Wednesday 15th October and the team has got bigger. Thirteen Indonesian colleagues joined us today, four of whom are women! Thanks to them, the number of women in the group has increased dramatically, going from 6 to 13%. What with finishing the loading of the Airaha 2 and the dhow, we had a very busy day indeed. This time the … Continue reading →

Tuesday afternoon 14th October, we load the Airaha 2. It’s an uninterrupted parade of packages of all types: small, big, fragile, solid, light, heavy, even very heavy (the floating dock that will store the oxygen bottle weighs 200 kg alone). The packages are carried on shoulders, on backs, in arms, thanks to a trolley, alone or with the help of … Continue reading →

Sunday afternoon and Monday morning, grocery shopping by bus: hundreds of kilos of rice, pasta, oil, coffee, tea, sugar, concentrated milk, biscuits, garlic, onions, herbs and spices, drinking water, without forgetting gas cooking equipment and dishes… and here is the basis for our meals. Already more than 50,000,000 roupies have been spent and it’s not finished! (translated by Lucie Bailly … Continue reading →

On Monday, early afternoon, the Airaha 2 arrived in Sorong. It moored alongside its elder brother, the Airaha.Thirty metres long, it will be able to transport most of the materials and passengers. All the rest will go on the dhow. We must prepare the zodiacs which will allow us to reach the different study sites from base camp. One of … Continue reading →

On Sunday everyone checks and sorts out the material which was in the two containers sent by cargo, one from France and the other from Jakarta. In all, 5.5 tons of equipment of all sorts to dive, climb trees, fish, collect samples… (translated by L2 ST students–Earth Sciences–group 3, UM2, France)