The ships

Between 2003 and 2005, the Australian Institute of Marine Science vessel RV Lady Basten will do six cruises and spend 120 days at sea collecting video, sled and sediment samples.

The Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries vessel, FRV Gwendoline May, will spend 90 days at sea in the same period collecting scientific trawl samples from appropriate zones.

RV Lady Basten. Photo: CRC Reef	FRV Gwendoline May. Photo: CSIRO