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Team Sanya aim to complete the first stage of Leg 2 after being forced to take refuge in Madagascar due to a rigging failure, they announced today.

Le sixième concurrent de la Volvo Ocean Race a annoncé hier qu'il allait boucler à la voile la première partie de l'étape 2. Team Sanya avait cassé un hauban dans l'océan Indien et est en escale technique à Madagascar.

Tôt ce lundi, Team Sanya a constaté une avarie sur son gréement et fait route vers un port au sud de Madagascar pour évaluer les dommages et élaborer un plan de secours. Personne n'a été blessé à bord et les équipiers sont sains et saufs.

Team Sanya suffered damage to part of their rigging early on Monday and are heading to a port in southern Madagascar in order to assess the damage and make a repair plan. No one has been injured and the crew are all safe.

For the second time in two legs, Team Sanya are facing a test of resource and resolve just to continue in the race but for skipper Mike SANDERSON there is no doubt they will be back ready to pounce in time for Leg 3.

As part of the anti-piracy measures introduced for Leg 2 from Cape Town to Abu Dhabi and Leg 3 to Sanya, China the boats will enter a 'Stealth Zone' on their way to the secret safe haven port.

Team Sanya est arrivé aujourd'hui à Madagascar. Course suspendue pour hauban cassé, l'équipage va y organiser la réparation de son gréement. Ou comment 11 marins de la Volvo Ocean Race débarquent sur le territoire malgache.

CAMPER have snatched the lead from Groupama and PUMA have slipped into second place as a high intensity and high stakes game of cat and mouse is unfolding as the fleet edge towards the Indian Ocean.

It is a nervous time for Team Telefónica's navigator Andrew CAPE having "rolled the dice" and laid his bet on a course that has placed his team in the lead, but also at one end of a major split in the fleet.

It has been a case of go, stop, go, stop for the frustrated fleet overnight as all six teams race to chase down the same high speed front, but on varied courses now stretching 200 miles across the Indian Ocean.

PUMA's Mar Mostro held the slimmest of leads on the first night of Leg 3 Stage 2 on Sunday with the entire fleet split by just 2.90 nautical miles.

After spending most of Leg 1 alone and with no opportunity to change the situation Franck CAMMAS and his men racing Groupama 4 are enjoying every moment of their well-earned lead, which could deliver a Leg 2 victory.

La Volvo Ocean Race modifie son parcours en Océan Indien pour échapper à la piraterie.

China's new manned submersible finished the first ocean expedition of its operation stage, according to Science and Technology Daily.

The microbial communities of the hydrothermal Scaly-foot Snails (SFSs) from independent hydrothermal vent fields have not been investigated in depth. In this study, we collected SFSs from two different hydrothermal environments located on the Central Indian Ridge (CIR) and the Southwest Indian Ridge (SWIR), the Kairei and Longqi vent fields, respectively. Additionally, one SFS collected from the Kairei vent field was reared for 16 days with in situ deep-sea seawater. The epibiotic and internal samples of SFSs, including ctenidium, esophageal gland, visceral mass, shells, and scales, were examined for microbial community compositions based on the 16S rRNA gene. Our results revealed significant differences in microbial community composition between SFSs samples collected from Kairei and Longqi vent fields. Moreover, the microbial communities of epibiotic and internal SFS samples also exhibited significant differences. Epibiotic SFS samples were dominated by the bacterial lineages of Sulfurovaceae, Desulfobulbaceae, Flavobacteriaceae, and Campylobacteraceae. While in the internal SFS samples, the genus Candidatus Thiobios, affiliated with the Chromatiaceae, was the most dominant bacterial lineage. Furthermore, the core microbial communities of all samples, which accounted for 78 ∼ 92% of sequences, were dominated by Chromatiaceae (27 ∼ 49%), Sulfurovaceae (10 ∼ 35%), Desulfobulbaceae (2 ∼ 7%), and Flavobacteriaceae (3 ∼ 7%) at the family level. Based on the results of random forest analysis, we also found the genera Desulfobulbus and Sulfurovum were the primary bacterial lineages responsible for the dissimilarity of microbial communities between the SFS samples collected from the Kairei and Longqi vent fields. Our results indicated that the microbial lineages involved in the sulfur cycle were the key microorganisms, playing a crucial role in the hydrothermal vent ecosystems. Our findings expand current knowledge on microbial diversity and composition in the e