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Ross Sea Environment and Ecosystem Voyage 2019
From 8 Jan - 27 Feb 2019, RV Tangaroa undertook a six-week research voyage to Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. -
Voyage image galleries
View a selection of images from our many ocean research voyages. -
2018 - OBS Recovery
VoyageThe 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. -
RV Tangaroa
FacilityRV Tangaroa is New Zealand’s only ice strengthened and dynamically positioned deep-water research vessel. -
Applying for vessel time
Find out how you can have access to NIWA's research vessels to carry out marine research voyages. -
RV Ikatere
FacilityA versatile inshore vessel, RV Ikatere is equipped with high-precision multibeam and sub-bottom profiler transducers for surveying and mapping the seabed. -
RV Kaharoa
FacilityKaharoa is capable of working throughout New Zealand's EEZ and further afield. -
Other vessels
FacilityNIWA operates about 30 other Maritime New Zealand-certified vessels based at Bream Bay, Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Turangi, Wellington, Nelson, Greymouth, Tekapo, Christchurch, and Dunedin. -
From high seas to estuaries
Feature story15 July 2016While Tangaroa might be considered its flagship, NIWA’s extensive range of maritime work could not be completed without the support vessels Kaharoa and Ikatere. -
Tangaroa made New Zealand bigger
Feature story11 July 2016Approved by the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, New Zealand was made sovereign over 1.7 million square kilometres of seafloor -
Sir Peter Blake Ambassador Fenna Beets - smooth sailing
Blog17 December 2015Setting sail on day one the weather was brilliant and the swell minimal, a good omen for what was ahead.