RV Investigator’s delivery team!
Posted: September 17, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Australia's Marine National Facility, Delivery voyage, RV Investigator Leave a commentHere’s a great photo of the team that delivered RV Investigator into its home port of Hobart.
#winner #RVInvestigator #shipselfie!
Posted: September 11, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Australia's Marine National Facility, Delivery voyage, RV Investigator Leave a commentTo mark the arrival of Australia’s new Marine National Facility research vessel, Investigator, into Hobart, we ran a social media competition, involving taking a snap of Investigator, with selfies strongly encouraged!
There were some great entries…
…and there was a stand out winner!
Toni Moate and Dr Brian Griffiths on 936 ABC Hobart!
Posted: September 10, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Australia's Marine National Facility, Delivery voyage, Future Research Vessel Project, RV Investigator Leave a commentYesterday was abuzz with media interviews and lots of people braving the windy and wet weather in Hobart, to come down to the waterfront and see the arrival of Australia’s new Marine National Facility research vessel Investigator.
One of the interviews Toni Moate and Dr Brian Griffiths did was with Ryk Goddard on 936 ABC Hobart on the Breakfast Show.
You can listen to the ABC’s audio file via SoundCloud here:
Investigator pulls up alongside at the CSIRO wharf in Hobart
Posted: September 9, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Australia's Marine National Facility, Delivery voyage, RV Investigator Leave a commentThe weather wasn’t too kind to us this morning for the arrival of Australia’s new Marine National Facility research vessel, but that didn’t stop us all heading out on launches or onto the wharf to watch as Investigator pulled alongside for the first time, into its home port of Hobart.
RV Investigator heading up the Derwent River!
Posted: September 9, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Australia's Marine National Facility, Delivery voyage, RV Investigator 1 CommentThe excitement is growing in Hobart with Australia’s new Marine National Facility research vessel Investigator on the home stretch of its delivery voyage.
Earlier this morning Ulrich Engelke, a Senior Research Scientist in Cognitive Informatics Digital Productivity and Services at CSIRO spotted RV Investigator at the mouth of the Derwent River.
Investigator arrives in Hobart tomorrow!
Posted: September 8, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Delivery voyage, RV Investigator Leave a comment
Come down to our Hobart site tomorrow and greet the ship.
The long wait is over. We’ve cleared a spot at the wharf for the arrival of Investigator into Hobart tomorrow morning and I can tell you we’re excited!
We’re expecting the ship at the wharf of our Hobart site at 10am.
If you’re in Hobart, come down and help celebrate Investigator’s arrival. Plus, we have a competition and prizes:
PHOTO COMPETITION
Send us your best snap of Investigator as it comes into Hobart harbour for a chance to win a AND a tour of Investigator for you and three friends later this year. Use #RVInvestigator when posting your image to Twitter or Facebook, or email it directly to us at by 5pm Tuesday 9 September. Winners will be announced Wednesday at midday. Creative selfies with Investigator are highly encouraged.
If you’re not in Hobart, don’t fret, you can follow all the action on Twitter at as we live-tweet the arrival. A few us will be going out to greet Investigator in a small flotilla!
And just to whet your appetite, we captured Investigator on the way here as it went round the south west corner of Western Australia a few days ago:
RV Investigator underway to Hobart!
Posted: September 5, 2014 Filed under: Home | Tags: Australia's Marine National Facility, Delivery voyage, RV Investigator Leave a commentAustralia’s new Marine National Facility research vessel, Investigator, is on the way to its home port of Hobart, in Tasmania.
One of the support staff on board snapped these fabulous photos at sunset.
