On 1st November, Volume 56 (23) of Deep-Sea Rearch II has appeared. PDFs of 17 publications on results of the French project Biozaire, in addition to an obituary, can be downloaded from the website sciencedirect.com. Articles deal with benthic organisms from microbes to megafauna and the environmental setting, including geology and sedimentology of the Congo River fan.

Congratulations to Myriam Sibuet and Annick Vangriesheim for an interesting, beautiful and comprehensive volume.