Our peeps (em)powering science at sea

This World Maritime Day, we look at women who (em)power the science on our research vessel Investigator.

Finders keepers! What our Investigator found on its Coral Sea journey

RV Investigator has returned to port after a voyage of discovery in the Coral Sea. Researchers uncovered rocks, coral, volcanoes and a potential shipwreck.

Our Investigator voyages through Coral Sea to map seafloor and unlock seabird secrets

Researchers on board our RV Investigator are surveying seabirds in the Coral Sea to see which parts of the ocean are used by different species.

Every week is science week on RV Investigator!

In the wake of National Science Week, we check in with our research vessel Investigator on a voyage in the Coral Sea.

The (ocean) floor is lava: RV Investigator’s Coral Sea voyage

Most of the ocean floor and what goes on down there is pretty much a mystery. This is where the RV Investigator's new research voyage in the Coral Sea could help.

SS Federal’s watery grave studied in bid to solve century-old mystery

The resting place of SS Federal, which sank with no survivors in 1901, has been a mystery for years — now authorities have confirmed its location, following some help from recreational divers.

A picture of a Corallimorpharia

Dungeons and Dragons and fish: an abyssmal adventure

It’s World Oceans Day and we’re going to drag you down into the abyss, where we can determine if truth really is stranger than fiction.

CSIRO researcher Karlie McDonald onboard RV Investigator at night wearing PPE gear.

From oceanic critters to the oceanic frontier: our researchers navigating the Indian Ocean

Our researchers are aboard RV Investigator, travelling along an Indian Ocean route that was last studied 60 years ago, looking at how the oceans have changed with the climate.

Dropping a line in the Indian Ocean

Sixty years after the first major study of the deep, unknown waters of the Indian Ocean, a team of scientists on our RV Investigator are returning to see what’s changed.

What happens now we’ve found the site of the lost Australian freighter SS Iron Crown, sunk in WWII

Finding shipwrecks isn’t easy – it’s a combination of survivor reports, excellent archival research, a highly skilled team, top equipment and some good old-fashioned luck. But that’s just what happened with the recent discovery of SS Iron Crown, lost off the coast of Victoria in Bass Strait during the second world war.

Long-lost shipwreck found off Victorian coast, 77 years after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine in WWII

Thirty-eight people died when SS Iron Crown was sunk by a Japanese submarine during World War II. Its underwater grave has now been discovered 77 years later.

Fill up on fish & ships with RV Investigator

In 1876, SS Queensland sank off Wilsons Promontory in Victoria, after colliding with the steamer Barrabool. In 2019, RV Investigator is using the wreck of SS Queensland to give us higher quality maps for safe navigation ahead of a program of historic shipwreck surveys in the area.