Locating offshore observations -- Seabed imaging by sonar and lidar -- Seismic exploration at sea: a theoretical background -- Seismic data acquisition at sea -- The marine gravity field -- The Earth's magnetic field at sea -- Heat flow -- Investigations of the sea floor using electrical methods -- Seabed exploration using radiometric methods -- Geophysical observations in offshore boreholes -- Deep-sea geophysics and the changing geometry of the oceans -- Studies of the oceanic lithosphere: the sedimentary cover -- Studies of the oceanic lithosphere: the crustal basement and upper mantle -- Investigations of divergent and transform continental margins -- Studies of subduction zones.