Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK
Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Surface chlorophyll a concentration in the Mediterranean Sea.
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Crab Zoea larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophores - The longest animals on the planet
Cousins of corals, siphonophores are colonies of specialized individuals called zoids. Some catch and digest their prey, others swim, or lay eggs or sperm.
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-Jacques Pangrazi)
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Tunicata Pyrosoma (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Appendicularia Oikopleura dioica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)