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RV Investigator is a 94-metre ocean research vessel capable of delivering up to 300 research days each year. The vessel has impressive scientific capabilities and a wide range of laboratories and facilities.

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Investigator

RV Investigator is a 94-metre ocean research vessel capable of delivering up to 300 research days each year. The vessel has impressive scientific capabilities and a wide range of laboratories and facilities.

  • Building Investigator
  • Fish
  • RV Southern Surveyor
  • Voyages

Solenosmilia coral reef with unidentified solitary yellow corals.

Exploring Australia’s ‘other reefs’ south of Tasmania

In the cold southern oceans, underwater mountains support deep-sea reefs.

Piping hot marine research delivered to your door

Four years of piping hot marine research delivered to your door is dropping knowledge bombs to change your world.

A school of orange fish swimming near the bottom of the ocean

Cooee! Sound-testing 1200 metres beneath the waves

We're using an echolocator to watch the daily migration of sea life rise up from depths to feed at dusk and then return back to the depths at dawn. But some fish have oil-filled bladders rather than a gas bladder making their reflection weak and difficult to count. That's where our special camera comes in.

Albatross with plastic soft drink bottle

‘Heartbreaking’ discovery of human trash 100km off Tasmanian coastline

Scientists discover birds toying with a party balloon and plastic bottle, with a soft drink can spotted 1,000 metres down on the ocean floor — sights described by researchers as "heartbreaking".

Eyes on the deep sea: the coral that thrives in the dark

We are surveying deep-sea coral reefs growing on underwater mountains to deepen our understanding of these extraordinary marine communities.

Explainer: how the Antarctic Circumpolar Current helps keep Antarctica frozen

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, or ACC, is the strongest ocean current on our planet and is vital for Earth’s health because it keeps Antarctica cool and frozen.

Underwater map of seamounts

Investigator blows the lid on underwater volcanoes

The volcanic lost world is not a myth, we’ve seen it!

Whale, whale, whale, what do we have here?

Scientists on our research vessel Investigator were treated to a spot of whale watching over the weekend.

group of king penguins in antarctic landscape

The cold and the beautiful: five cool things we’ve been up to in Antarctica

Australia and Antarctica go way back. 96 million years, in fact. Lately, we’ve played a key role in some of the biggest scientific discoveries in Antarctica.

In the middle of the Southern Ocean with Investigator’s science team

Avoiding that sinking feeling at sea

With Day of the Seafarer focusing this year on mental health and well-being, we are shining a beacon on life at sea on Investigator and how our seafarers mentally prepare for their time among the waves.

PHOTO: The RV Investigator was in the Antarctic last summer. (Supplied: Marine National Facility)

Teachers live-streaming science from the high seas into their classrooms

A group of Australian school teachers and educators are heading home after a week on the high seas beaming lessons back to shore.

RV Investigator probe reveals Bass Strait shipwreck after ‘chance encounter’

Scientists on RV Investigator, while scanning the bottom of Bass Strait in a "lawn-mowing" operation, have discovered an 1890 shipwreck and uncovered more than they expected.

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