Expedition diaries
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Another sailing-yacht cruise for oceanic plankton
In March–April 2026 our Laboratory organised another oceanic plankton expedition aboard a sailing yacht. The Eldorado cruise was the fourth in a series of…
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Sailing–Motor Schooner Eldorado, October 2025 — Atlantic Ocean
Across the Tropical Atlantic — Notes from the Third Expedition Despite the Ministry of Science’s continued lack of understanding of the importance of biological…
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67th cruise of the R/V Akademik Ioffe: studying the deep-sea plankton of the Atlantic
According to the Maritime Doctrine of the Russian Federation, one of the key goals of national maritime policy is the preservation of marine ecosystems…
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The 64th cruise of the R/V Akademik Ioffe has ended
Continuing our long-running series of studies on oceanic zooplankton, we launched the 64th cruise of the R/V Akademik Ioffe in October 2023. Although the…
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1st cruise of the sailing yacht “Amazon”, Mindelo (Cape Verde) – Itajaí (Brazil), Part 3
Part 3. Is it worth the trouble? At this point, or perhaps earlier, the reader will ask: why can we not go on specially…
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1st cruise of the sailing yacht “Amazon”, Mindelo (Cape Verde) – Itajaí (Brazil), Part 2
Part 2. In the tropical ocean. A force-3 gale and a wind of 10–15 m/s were our pilots as we left the bay of…
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1st cruise of the sailing yacht “Amazon”, Mindelo (Cape Verde) – Itajaí (Brazil), Part 1
Part 1. How the 2nd cruise of the yacht “Basileus” became the 1st cruise of the yacht “Amazon” The expedition began briskly and cheerfully.…
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Sailing yacht “Basileus”, 1st cruise. Part 4
Now that everything has ended well and we are in Moscow, I can calmly reconstruct the events from conversations with our diplomatic mission, the…
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Sailing yacht “Basileus”, 1st cruise. Part 3
The last dash to Mauritius is done. The weather did not spoil us, but we still took 5 more deep-sea stations, 13 in total…
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Sailing yacht “Basileus”, 1st cruise. Part 2
So, the first and longest part of the expedition is done. We have taken 8 deep-sea stations (24 samples in the 0–200, 200–1000 and…
