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Sailing for climate protection
The fastest data collector in the world
Regatta sailor Boris Herrmann has installed a mini-laboratory on his high-tech yacht Seaexplorer - and transmits information to ocean researchers during his races. The data helps to improve climate models.
At first, Toste Tanhua had no idea who was standing in front of him. The biogeochemist had just given a lecture on his marine research in a large lecture hall at Kiel University when the man approached him. He introduced himself as a regatta sailor and spent a lot of time on the oceans throughout the year. If there was interest, he said, he would be happy to have a measuring device installed in the ship. Toste Tanhua still has to smile today when he tells this story from 2018: I m a sailor myself, he says, but I really didn t recognize him at that moment. He only realized later at home that it was Boris Herrmann, Germany s best-known sailing athlete, who had just offered to work with him.