RV Investigator is a highly advanced research vessel with a broad range of scientific equipment to support marine scientists in the following disciplines:
– oceanography and climatology.
– fisheries, marine ecosystem and marine environmental research.
– a wide range of marine geosciences.
– multi-disciplinary marine research.
It will replace the current Marine National Facility Research Vessel, the 66-metre Southern Surveyor.
[mappress] Subsea World News Staff, February 25, 2013