“More than one hundred years ago, in 1898, Prince Albert 1st of Monaco made the first of a series of four voyages to Spitzberg, which had not been explored until then. The ties which bind the Monaco Oceanographic Museum to the Arctic accordingly date back to the expeditions of its founder, which still today bear witness to the changes in the climate and the urgency of protecting the marine environment. It was therefore quite natural that the Monaco Oceanographic Museum supports the Antognellis, with whom it shares the ambition to make known the oceans, in order that they may be loved and protected.”

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 Following this presentation, the Oceanographical Museum of Monaco organized on Tuesday, May 25 and this at 48 hours of our departure, a press conference in our honor, in the prestigious building relooké in the 100 years honor of the Museum.

After a cordial presentation of the Director, Mr Robert Calcagno, the press was interested in our program during a good part of the morning.

Possible contacts with the media then were considered and could be remotely during the course of the program 2010.