Instrument: benthic lander

A benthic lander is an autonom­ous re­search plat­form used in mar­ine re­search to take meas­ure­ments dir­ectly on the sea­floor. Benthic landers are car­rier sys­tems to which dif­fer­ent meas­ur­ing and sampling devices can be at­tached. They trans­port these devices to the sea­floor and back up again. Autonom­ous means that the lander is not con­nec­ted to the ship via a cable. It can thus work in­de­pend­ently on the sea­floor for a long period of time.