From December 22, 2021 to February 5, 2022, the 2nd stage is planned, the 60th voyage of the RV Akademik Ioffe, lasting 46 days with the departure and completion of the expedition in the port of Kaliningrad, the head of the expedition is chief researcher, DSc Elena Ivanova.

The 2nd stage of the 60th voyage of the RV Akademik Ioffe to the tropical Atlantic continues. The scientific program of the expedition includes conducting geological, geophysical, hydrophysical and hydrochemical studies of deep and near-bottom circulation and its impact on sedimentation, as well as observations of cetaceans along the way, collection of microbiological data and meteorological information in the Central Atlantic, along the route of the vessel from the port of Kaliningrad to the Vima test site - a section through the Guiana Basin (including the uplift of Ceara) - to the port of Kaliningrad.

Comprehensive research at the Vima test site is currently ongoing.