13 December 2009

2009 1st scuba stamp


The year's first stamp to feature a scuba diver is this issue, released 1st January, from the French Southern & Antarctic Territories (Terres Australes et Antarctiques Françaises - TAAF) on the MACARBI (Monitoring environnemental en Antarctique basé sur l'étude des structures CARbonatées de Bivalves) Project - Antarctic environmental monitoring based on study of bivalve carbonate structures. The stamp shows a silhouetted diver on the way down to harvest bivalves for the project experiments.

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