The book LE LIVRE DES TEMPETES - A BORD DE L'ABEILLE FLANDRE by photographer Jean GAUMY and writer Herve Hamon was published in France by Editions du Seuil, 2001. The book won the 2001 Nadar award for the most powerful photography book of the year. During long periods over the year , Gaumy and Hamon have shared the daily life of the tugboats ABEILLE FLANDRE and ABEILLE LANGUEDOC. Chartered by the French state, the sea tugboats "Abeille Flandre" and its sister ship the "Abeille Languedoc" are used for naval and civilian salvage and rescue operations and with a bollard pull of 160