For its fourth and final mission of 2022, the Octopus Foundation team returned to the shores of Lake Neuchâtel, in Switzerland. The main objective of these 10 days was to study the underwater remains of a pile-dwelling village from the Final Bronze Age (850 BC), under the scientific direction of Neuchâtel archaeologist Fabien Langenegger. This…
Since 2018, the Octopus Foundation has had the privilege of working in the Ionian Islands, for a better understanding and protection of the Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus). Remember, in the beginning, we had the crazy project of installing electronic equipment on a Greek coast, to autonomously and continuously observe the rare pinnipeds of this…
The operational team of the Octopus Foundation continues to explore the Swiss lakes. After the three archaeological missions carried out in Lake Neuchâtel between 2019 and 2020 to study three wrecks in danger, we are back in Switzerland, more precisely in Geneva. And the purpose of this first mission in Lake Geneva is to initiate…