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Figure 48. A sea bottom dredge designed by Jacques Picard in 1961 at theMarseille Marine Station and first used in the Bay of Marseille. This wasmeant to sample the fauna living in the sediments covering the seafloor. Thisinstrument is similar to a box dredge or deep sea anchor dredge. It was firsttested in 1961 in the Bay of Marseille. (Image credit: Oceanographic Museum of Monaco | Y. Berard)