The Marion Dufresne can carry numerous containers and has a helideck.

• Environment
  • Aanderaa weather station and an acoustic resonance anemometer
  • 2 “clean” seawater systems supplying the laboratories
  • 2 continuous measurement thermosalinographs, 2 RDI acoustic Doppler current profilers (ADCP)

• Geophysics
  • Multibeam echo sounders, water column echo sounder and sub-bottom profiler
  • Analogue probe line (3.5 kHz, 12 kHz, 18 kHz)
  • Seaspy magnetometer
  • LaCoste marine gravimeter

From 2020 the Marion Dufresne will be equipped and able to deploy seismic equipment, the Penfeld penetrometer and the Victor 6000 ROV.