Pelagia - Fearsome Jellyfish Mauve jellies move in droves, their nasty stings feared by swimmers.
Siphonophores (Photo : Fabien Lombard)
Carte de la camapagne du navire oceanographique James COOK
Le trajet du bateau sur fond couleur de la mer.
Dinoflagellate Ceratium gravidum (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium carriense var volans (Photo : Sophie Marro)
Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)
Dinoflagellate Ceratium tripos (Photo : Sophie Marro)
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)