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)
Annelid worm (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Les mésocosmes attirent les poissons ! (© Stareso)
Gelatinous plankton Pelagia and Ctenophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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.
Velella - Planktonic Vessels
Colonies of polyps transported by prevailing winds, velella drift at the surface of warm seas.
Copepode Sapphirina iris (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
The various components of a profiling float type PROVOR
Jellyfish Pelagia noctilica (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.
Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)
Diatom genus Rhizosolenia (Photo : Sophie Marro)