The-ancient-Great-Barrier-Reef

[Image of Rob Beaman, Marine Scientist, appears on screen]

Narrator: Rob believes that particularly with the advent of the multibeam SWOF Mapper there’s never been a better time to be a marine scientist.

[Image of a computer generated 3D maps appears on screen]

[Image changes to show a piece of scientific marine equipment being lowered into the ocean]

There’s just so much we’re discovering about the ocean.

[Image changes to show crew members preparing scientific marine equipment on deck]

Here we have the Great Barrier Reef that everyone knows and loves and millions of people use, and yet, not even 50-kilometres away there’s this entirely different landscape that we had no idea about until 2007.

[Image changes to show photos of Rob and his colleauges]

That was the work of Southern Surveyor.

[Image changes to show text: Available from CSIRO Publishing and bookstores October 2015 above the CSIRO Publishing logo and alongside the title page of a book entitled Southern Surveyor, Stories from onboard Australia’s Ocean Research Vessel, Michel Veitch]