Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Large rosette sampler used in the "World Ocean Circulation Experiment". This rosette has 36 10-liter Niskin bottles, an acoustic pinger (lower left), an "LADCP" current profiler (yellow long tube at the center), a CTD (horizontal instrument at the bottom), and transmissometer (yellow short tube at the center). (Photo : L. Talley)
Deployment of a profiling float (Photo : Jean-JacquesPangrazi)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium falcatum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)