Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish
Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Remote-controlled sailboat
Ciliate (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Villefranche-sur-Mer in stormy weather, winter 2011 - Photo : J.-M. Grisoni
Mollusk (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Foraminifera Ruber (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
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)
Siphonophore (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Vue sous-marine d'un groupe de mésocosmes montrant un plongeur récoltant les pièges à sediment (© Stareso)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium candelabrum var depressum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellates Ceratium platycorne var platycorne (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Diatom genus Hemiaulus (Photo : Sophie Marro)
