One of Australia’s best non-fiction writers Michael Veitch has interviewed the men and women who worked on board CSIRO’s Marine National Facility research vessel Southern Surveyor, to produce an engaging and sometimes dramatic account of their adventures.

The book includes a chapter on Dr Robin Beaman from James Cook University, a marine geoscientist who discovered vast ancient drowned coral reefs not far from the Great Barrier Reef.

You can purchase the book from CSIRO Publishing.