Data Trawler

Data Trawler

The Data Trawler is a portal to query and download public data from CSIRO voyages and projects. Data types include underway, multibeam, CTD, Hydrology, catch composition and specimens, gravity, wildlife observations and sub-bottom profile data. There are links to the Marlin metadata catalogue, deployments, reports, science publications and maps.

To obtain data, you will be required to enter an email address which can be done at anytime from a data download page. To access custodian data, please use the login form on the right.

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Latest voyage of the
RV Investigator.

Voyage: IN2026_V05 [details]

19° 42.0' S    154° 38.3' E
31-Aug-2026 02:00 UTC.
(25 mins ago)

View track using the Near Real-time Underway Data (NRUD).
View the RV Investigator blog for voyage news.

Data types
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Search for File Downloads - from CSIRO voyages and other surveys, data types, formats (e.g. csv, netCDF, Matlab...) etc.

Search for deployments - from CSIRO voyages, by voyage/survey, type of deployment, gear used etc.

Search for events - from the RV Investigator voyages, by survey, equipment, comments etc.

Source/Vessel/Platform List - sorted by Vessel, Mooring, Model etc. with drilldown to surveys and data.

List of Projects of over 1,500 projects with drilldown to surveys and data.

Use this form to search for Specimens and Types. The 'Search for taxa/voucher' is not case sensitive and numbers in [] are the number of records.
Search for taxa / voucher
Ships
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(range from 0 to 5000)

Need to find when or where the ship was?

Use the Ship Location tool to query by time and/or position from underway data collected since 1985.

Find out how close the ship was to a particular point.