- Length overall: 28.40 m
- Beam: 7.60 m
- Draught: 3.80 m
- Gross tonnage: 198.8 RT
- Net tonnage: 77.8 RT
- Classification: Bureau Veritas
- Diesel capacity: 43 m3
- Fuel consumption: 2 m3 per day in transit
- Crew: 18
- Scientists, technicians and hydrographers: 6
- Average operating speed during passages and cruises: 8 knots
- Average speed during trials: 8.5 knots
- Range: 18 days
- Freshwater ballast: 20 m3
- Wastewater ballast: 1.4 m3
- Construction: 1987
- Owner: IRD
- Scientific operator: IFREMER
- Operator: Genavir
- Flag: French 1st register
- Type: Scientific fishing vessel
- Call Sign: FHQB
- IMO number: 8806761
- Registry number: BR 683407
- Multibeam echo sounder
- Water column echo sounder
- Trawl-net sensors, SCANMAR
- Acoustic Doppler current profiler
- Thermosalinometer
- Bathythermograph
- Weather station: Batos - Météo France
- Bottom trawl net
- Pelagic trawl net
- Micronekton trawl net
- Plankton trawl net
- Dredge
The ship has a wet laboratory and a dry laboratory.
- 2 fishing winches, BOPP, 1500 m cable, 5 tonnes
- Dredging winch, hydraulic, Bopp, 4000 m cable, 5 tonnes, diameter 14 mm
- Net reel, hydraulic, Bopp, volume 2 m3
- Line winch, Bopp, 1 tonne pull
- Hydrology winch, 1000 m, 1 tonne, diameter 6.45 mm
- CTD winch, electromechanical cable, Bopp, length 5400 m, diameter 10.8 mm
- Handling winch, Bopp, 80 m, 5 tonnes
- Coring platform for piston corer
- Tender
- Container 10 ft
Network: 80 sockets, 1 Gbps
Servers and data storage: VMWare virtualization, 5 TB of storage for scientific data.
Satellite communications: Ku-band VSAT (1 m) and FBB 500.
- Clock: ACEB Sofy M90
- Radars: Furuno FAR Gyrocompass: 2 x TSS Meridian Surveyor
- GPS
- Log: double axis
- GMDSS: Sailor, zone A3
- Automatic pilot: 1 Anschutz NP60 and 1 Simrad AP50
- AIS: Debeg 3400
- Navigation echo sounders: 1 Furuno FCV1100L
- Main engine, diesel, 800 hp/589 kW, max. speed 1350 rpm
- Bow thruster, 55 hp
- Electrical power: 380 / 220 / 24 V, 120 kVA, triple phase, 50 Hz
- Gyrocompass: 2 x TSS Meridian Surveyor
- Log: Ben Galatée, single axis
- Direction finder: Taiyo TDL 1630
- GMDSS: Sailor, zone A3
- Automatic pilot: 1 Anschutz NP60, 1 Simrad AP50
- AIS: Debeg 3400
- Satellite communications: Fleet broadband 500
- VSAT