glider

Le planeur sous-marin - glider from mon océan et moi on Vimeo.

The glider. Ther glider measures the properties of the ocean without moving propeller. It can go up to 1 km and carry out missions for several months and several thousand miles..

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Dinoflagellate Ceratium praelongum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant la structure de flottaison en surface (© Stareso)

Larva of decapod crustacean (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Siphonophores Forskalia formosa (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Trimaran of INSU

Diatom genus Chaetoceros (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Rosette used to collect seawater samples during a scientific cruise in the South Pacific Ocean. During the austral summer, the amount of chlorophyll a is so low that the water becomes deep blue, almost purple. (Photo : Joséphine Ras)

Krill (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

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The Glider

Dinoflagellate Ceratium ranipes grd mains (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Phytoplankton bloom observed by the ocean color sensor MODIS onboard NASA satellite Terra in May 2010. The bloom spreads broadly in the North Atlantic from Iceland to the Bay of Biscay - Source : NASA's Earth Observatory (http:/earthobservatory.nasa.gov)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Prélèvements d'eau des mésocosmes pour analyses, lors de l'expérience menée en Corse en juin/juillet 2012 (© A. Ree, PML)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)