This Monday marked a milestone day — the first international workshop dedicated to ship-whale collisions came to life with energy, commitment, and collective intelligence.

𝑆𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠, 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑠, 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑑𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑠 𝑔𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎 𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑒𝑥𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒, 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛-𝑏𝑢𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛’𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑠: 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠.

A clearly established issue, highlighting the undeniable urgency of reducing ship strikes — through innovation, cooperation, and technological progress.
Many brilliant ideas, innovative projects, and concrete solutions were presented — each more ingenious than the last — to address this growing challenge. Complex, sometimes difficult, but always necessary questions were raised to refine and improve our collective response.

We were also thrilled to reunite with our European project partners, without whom this event could not have happened — notably through LIFE – SeaDetect and SafeNav.

Special thanks to our workshop chairs, whose guidance, expertise and passion shaped the day:
Aurore Morin, Simone Panigada, Olivier Adam, and Charlotte Curé.

And above all, a heartfelt thank you to all our incredible speakers, who shared their knowledge, perspectives and solutions with impact and clarity.
Natacha Aguilar de Soto, @Léa David, Damian Foxall, Pelagos Agreement , Tim Collins, Auriane Virgili, Nino Pierantonio, Romain J., Charles Mars, Rémi Emmetière, Thomas Folegot, Arnaud Pourchez, Shaban A., Vincent CARRIER, Leila Fouda, Laurine Gounot, Pierre Beaufils, Julien D.., Loanne Pichot, Virgil Zetterlind, Jessica Scott, Lucia Bergantin — thank you for your invaluable contributions.

This event may be over, but it is only the beginning of a new collective adventure — in the race to prevent ship-whale collisions and protect marine biodiversity.

Let’s carry this momentum forward — for science, for innovation, and for life in our oceans.