Second Life for "Planet Solar"

Great to see that a great and successful prject like the Planet Solar will have a further life and making a difference on its way.

Planet Solar, a Swiss-based initiative founded in 2004, made headlines earlier this year after completing the first circumnavigation of the world in a boat powered only by solar energy. The MS Tûranor Planet Solar is the largest solar vessel ever built, and contains state of the art technology in the field of composite manufacturing and storage of solar energy.
The leaders of Deepwater Project aim now to deploy the ship to carry out a unique scientific measurement campaign along the Gulf Stream. This current is one of the significant regulators of climate, but the dense saline and cold waters that activate deep-water currents remain relatively unexplored. Any disruption affecting zones of deep-water formation could have vast repercussions for global climate. As a result, Deepwater Project intends to identify and document even subtle changes in the behavior of the ocean-atmosphere interface along the course of the Gulf Stream.
The unique measurements provided by this kind of expedition have never been collected at such a scale.
The more we delay taking essential decisions, the harder it will be to cope with the impact of global
warming

Read more: http://www.unige.ch/environnement/index/Deepwater_project.pdf