Southern Surveyor [electronic resource] : Stories from Onboard Australia's Ocean Research Vessel
Michael Veitch2015
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'The deepest trenches, highest mountains, biggest earthquakes, most explosive
volcanoes are all associated with these places. We're discovering things all the
time.' For ten years, the RV Southern Surveyor represented the vanguard of
Australian marine science. On over 100 voyages, this former North Sea fishing
trawler with her distinctive blue and white livery carried scientists and
technicians across the Southern, Pacific and Indian oceans as well as the waters
off northern Australia. She conducted physical, chemical, geological and
biological investigations and deployed state-of-the-art instruments to map vast
unexplored tracts of the seafloor. Over the course of a year, prior to her final
voyage, Michael Veitch interviewed the Southern Surveyor's former captains and
crew, support staff and scientists. The result is a warm, engaging and sometimes
dramatic account of their adventures - finding sunken WWII shipwrecks and
swirling coastal vortexes, 'undiscovering' islands an...
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Author:
Michael Veitch, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : CSIRO PUBLISHING, 2015
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (272 pages,)
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781486302666
Language:
English
BRN:
434588
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