During the cruise of MSM105 at several stations off Namibia benthic investigations were carried out in January and February 2022. The data contains the abundance, biomass and species number we found during this cruise between 18 and 27°South. The water depths sampled were between 25 and 2060 metres. Methods used: van Veen grab, box corer and multicorer, sieved 1 mm, fixed with formalin and sorted in the laboratory, microscopy, taxonomic identification, counting and weighing of the species