Voyages

A team of scientists spent 21 days investigating the unexplored Bounty Trough

Kaharoa Voyages KAH 2303 & 2306

In 2023, RV Tangaroa undertook a 45-day voyage to the Southern Ocean and Ross Sea (TAN2301) between January 11 and February 24, 2023.

A NIWA led voyage from 9 April to May 2022 to the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano in Tonga.

You’ll be blown away by what these women in science are doing onboard RV Tangaroa in the Tasman sea!

The NIWA research ship Tangaroa was chartered by the Ministry of Primary Industries to survey the hoki fishery on the Chatham Rise during January 2022.

Kaikōura Canyon reveals its muddy secrets

RV Tangaroa has sailed to the Macquarie Ridge to under charter by Australia’s CSIRO Marine National Facility to recover ocean bottom seismometers and acquire multibeam sonar and sub‐bottom profile data in the Macquarie Island region.

Underwater Remotely Operated Vehicle helping scientists collect the latest earthquake data.

RV Tangaroa undertook a 45-day voyage to the Southern Ocean and Ross Sea in January-February, 2021.

This month-long fisheries trawl survey on the RV Tangaroa, aims to estimate the relative abundance of hoki, hake, ling and other middle depth fish species in the Southland and subantarctic areas.

The 2020 voyage provided an opportunity to progress ongoing studies into the ecological and sedimentological impact and recovery following the 2016 Kaikōura Earthquake.