The mission of the research ship Belgica is the exploration of the marine ecosystem of the North Sea. The marine scientists on board use the journey home, which takes several days, to dry out their samples of marine sediments in the ICP incubator in the so-called wet laboratory.
The predecessors of today’s marine scientists and geologists in the Antarctic Today’s Belgica had a famous predecessor. Belgian officer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery set off with her in the year 1897 on the first research trip to the Antarctic, the so-called Belgica expedition, during which island