Quiet on board please: science underway

Southern Surveyor is Australia’s grand old lady of scientific sea expeditions. Operated by the CSIRO through the Marine National Facility Marine National Facility, she has been a research vessel for 22 years and has served Australia’s scientific community well, having carried out 111 Marine National Facility voyages and chalked up an astonishing 481,550 kilometers of travel. That’s equivalent to going around the equator 12 times – further than the distance from Earth to the Moon!