Why are we finding so many Australian shipwrecks lately? There’s one research vessel helping uncover the past
The Conversation, Other, 25/07/2024, Toni Moate and Emily Jateff
On August 23 1969, the coastal freighter MV Noongah departed Newcastle bound for Townsville with a cargo of steel and 26 crew. […] While on a research voyage to study submarine canyons off the New South Wales coast, a team aboard the CSIRO research vessel RV Investigator became the first to set eyes on MV Noongah in nearly 55 years.