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Watercraft Service

Watercraft Service

To carry out its experiments, XPO provides a variety of boats to adapt to the constraints of the field.

Bouée_Esturial

The research vessel l'Esturial, a 13.65m catamaran, is specially designed and equipped to carry out fish sampling, environmental measurements and benthic sampling in estuarine or coastal areas.

The other XPO watercrafts are adapted to experiments and observations of different continental aquatic environments.

A set of nets of various mesh and dimensions, sampling frames and various sampling bottles and buckets that can be used from the boats are also available.

XPO has a team of 4 divers holding a Class I B Hyperbaric Aptitude Certificate, mention B.
Their work currently focuses on the plant communities of the lakes of Aquitaine and the instruments used to monitor their physical and chemical parameters.