mon océan & moi

Ocean color satellites travel around the Earth at an altitude of about 700 to 800 km.

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)

Underwater glider (Photo : David Luquet)

Jellyfish Aequorea aequorea  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Dinoflagellate Ceratium azoricum (Photo : Sophie Marro)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Profiling float (Photo : David Luquet)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : David Luquet)

Acantharia (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Squid larva (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Copepode Sapphirina iris  (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Jellyfish Leuckaztiara octona (Photo : Fabien Lombard)

Instrumented buoy (Photo : Emilie Diamond)