La Flotte océanographique française regroupe une panoplie de navires de recherche, d'engins sous-marins et d'équipements mobiles, lui donnant accès à tous les océans et mers du globe, hors zone polaire : - quatre navires hauturiers (Marion Dufresne, Pourquoi pas ?, L'Atalante, Thalassa) capables de réaliser des campagnes océanographiques sur tous les océans (hors zones polaires) ; - deux navires semi-hauturiers (Antea et Alis) réalisant des missions océanographiques de physique, chimie, halieutique, d'exploration de la colonne d'eau et de cartographie sous-marine. Ces navires opèrent en Méditérannée, dans l'océan Indien et Tropical atlantique, dans le Pacifique Sud-ouest et en Outre-mer ; - cinq navires côtiers (L'Europe, Thalia, Côtes de la Manche, Tethys II et Haliotis) utilisés en Manche-Atlantique et en Méditerranée pour des campagnes scientifiques nombreuses et variées avec une capacité à assurer un continuum de moyens entre le littoral et le hauturier ; - sept navires de station, pouvant des sorties de la journée à trois jours, pour les plus récents, répartis sur les façades maritimes métropolitaines : Antedon II (Marseille), Sepia II (Wimereux), Nereis (Port-Vendres), Neomysis (Roscoff), Albert Lucas (Brest), Planula IV (Arcachon), Sagitta III (Nice). On peut connaître leur position en temps réel sur le site de la Flotte océanographique française. Un service de visualisation web WMS est également disponible.

Raw seismic reflection data archived at SISMER, acquired: - by oceanographic vessels and national equipment managed by the French Oceanographic Fleet (FOF) - by foreign oceanographic vessels in collaboration with Ifremer - by Ifremer's historic vessels (Jean Charcot, Nadir, Suroit) operated before the FOF was set up

Raw multibeam from acoustic echosounding of the water column and archived at SISMER. These data have been acquired: - by oceanographic vessels and national equipment managed by the French Oceanographic Fleet (FOF) - by foreign or national oceanographic vessels in collaboration with Ifremer

Raw underway marine gravity data archived at SISMER, acquired: - by oceanographic vessels and national equipment managed by the French Oceanographic Fleet (FOF) - by foreign oceanographic vessels in collaboration with Ifremer - by Ifremer's historic vessels (Jean Charcot, Nadir, Suroit) operated before the FOF was set up

Raw multibeam echosouner data (bathymetric and reflectivity) archived at SISMER, acquired: - by oceanographic vessels and national equipment managed by the French Oceanographic Fleet (FOF) - by foreign oceanographic vessels in collaboration with Ifremer - by Ifremer's historic vessels (Jean Charcot, Nadir, Suroit) operated before the FOF was set up

Raw underway marine magnetic data collected : - by french oceanographic vessels and national equipment managed by the French Oceanographic Fleet (FOF) - by foreign oceanographic vessels in collaboration with Ifremer - by Ifremer's historic vessels (Jean Charcot, Nadir, Suroit) operated before the FOF was set up

Raw siescan sonar data archived at SISMER, acquired: - by oceanographic vessels and national equipment managed by the French Oceanographic Fleet (FOF) - by foreign oceanographic vessels in collaboration with Ifremer - by Ifremer's historic vessels (Jean Charcot, Nadir, Suroit) operated before the FOF was set up

Localisation of marine geological and biological samples, stored in the biology and geology ocean database managed by IFREMER (BIGOOD, BIology and GeOlogy Ocean Database).

Validated and aggregated data from current profilers measured continuously by hull-mounted ADCPs (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler).

French national archive (SISMER) of time series data, particularly current meter and thermistor data.