Vessel capability

NIWA's vessels are world-class environmental monitoring and research platforms.

NIWA’s brand-new research vessel, Kaharoa II, was officially christened by Minister Judith Collins today. 

The 2022 Tonga volcanic eruption triggered the fastest underwater flow ever recorded.

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

RV Tangaroa induction videos for voyage participants and contractors.

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

Kaharoa is capable of working throughout New Zealand's EEZ and further afield.

NIWA operates about 30 other Maritime New Zealand-certified vessels based at Bream Bay, Auckland, Hamilton, Rotorua, Turangi, Wellington, Nelson, Greymouth, Tekapo, Christchurch, and Dunedin.

RV Tangaroa is New Zealand’s only ice strengthened and dynamically positioned deep-water research vessel.

Find out how you can have access to NIWA's research vessels to carry out marine research voyages.