Cruise MUSORSTOM 4 

• Place: New Caledonia
  
• Participants:
  • Bertrand Richer de Forges (mission chief)
  • Alain Crosnier
  • Philippe Bouchet
  • Bernard Séret
  • Catherine Vadon
• Material used:
  • Ship: R.V. Vauban
  • Sampling tackles:
    • Warén dredge
    • Drague épibenthique
    • Drague Calypso
    • Traps
    • Beam-trawl
    • Otter-trawl for shrimp
• Stations list
  
• Results:
  • New taxa
  • Publications

Abstract

In September-October 1985, the O.V. "Vauban" has undertaken an exploratory cruise for bathyal benthos: MUSORSTOM IV. The first leg of this cruise took place in north of New Caledonia, in the Grand Passage zone, at a depth of between 150 and 750 m. The second leg explored the southern part of New Caledonia, south east of the Isle of Pines and east of the Havannah Pass.
These two cruises were very successfull. One hundred and four sampling operations have taken place.