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A SHIP AT THE HEART
IN OF HISTORY
SIGHT
The following speakers detailed their personal rela-
tionship with ALDEBARAN and how their daily lives
“The oceans force us to think are linked to knowledge of the oceans. The founder's
and act differently and to think daughter, Marina Schweikert, project manager at
in new ways”. Landkreis Lüneburg, spoke movingly about the histo-
Elisabeth Mann-Borgese, ry of the ship, which once sat in the family garden in
founder of the International the heart of a village in the Black Forest, a long way
Oceans Institute from the oceans!

Carsten Spieker, Director of the GEA Group, a Ger-
man engineering company, recalled the arrival of the
ALDEBARAN in front of the German Parliament: "It
was just after German reunification when the Parlia-
IN ment was in Bonn. A crane lifted the boat to place it
at the foot of Parliament. The aim was to create awar-
FIGURES eness and visibility, and we succeeded! ".

■ Over 30 years old (1992), Finally, Marion Koch, Technical Director of the sus-
■ 100,000 nautical miles, tainable boat-building company Innovation Yachts,
■ More than 500 projects, and Michael Maass, Vice-President of Sustainability
Solutions Sea, discussed the carbon and ecological
■ 10,000 minutes of footprint of the maritime sector in the ocean.
broadcasting.