Vessels

A six metre-long autonomous trimaran fitted out with a NIWA echosounder is being used as part of an innovative research collaboration.

Eurofleets+ aims at providing, integrating and improving access to key research vessels and associated major equipment.

This campaign brings together two Eurofleets+ Infrastructures, the RV Tangaroa and the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) from Sweden’s University of Gothenburg (UGOT).

Fisheries researchers combine technologies to collect more data at a lower cost.

RV Tangaroa induction videos for voyage participants and contractors.

NIWA’s flagship research ship Tangaroa returned to Wellington yesterday after cutting short an international scientific voyage taking place off the east coast of New Zealand.

Sustainability of Hoki fisheries in the Cook Strait

From 8 Jan - 27 Feb 2019, RV Tangaroa undertook a six-week research voyage to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean.

View a selection of images from our many ocean research voyages.

The RV Tangaroa is assisting in New Zealand’s largest ever deployment of seafloor earthquake recording instruments in a bid to learn more about the earthquake behaviour of the tectonic plates beneath the east coast of the North Island.

A versatile inshore vessel, RV Ikatere is equipped with high-precision multibeam and sub-bottom profiler transducers for surveying and mapping the seabed.