Amsterdam to Spitsbergen via Norway
Land if Ice and snow and Polar bears, what a place, endless series of Fiords and Glaciers, lots of wildlife and really nice people onboard for the whole time We also met up with a very old friend who has been working on a research station there for 25 years, Wojtek Moskal from Poland at Ny Alesund.
Tiama has had another busy summer working in the Sub Antarctic islands. Twelve separate expeditions over a seven month period.
A busy southern summer season in the Sub Antarctic 10 departures and returns from NZmost souther port, Bluff. lots of interesting trips including the regular Albatross research support voyages for the NZ National institute of Water and Atmosphere (NIWA) and providing logistics support for a voyage to Campbell island for the biology department of the University of Otago. We also undertook a 2 week voyage to the Auckland islands undertaking…
A 1-month charter to the sub Antarctic Antipode Islands south of New Zealand, filming the first sunrise of the new Millenium and broadcasting it with an Inmarsat B directly onto the Internet sending a message to 60.000 people as the first rays of the sun hit the decks.
Tiama Sailed from NZ to Papua New Guinea and worked there for 3 months on the Fly and Bamu river, working for the Greenpeace forest campaign on invitation of the local land owners to try stop illegal logging operations on there Tribal lands by Malaysian logging companies. We sailed 1200 miles on the rivers penetrating deep into the remaining PNG rainforest.
We have had the busiest Souther summer season to date, working with 2 BBC film crews in the sub-Antarctic to film the mating ritual of the Bullers Albatross when the couple first meet after not seeing each other for a year at sea plus the extreme sight and noise of thousands of small Sooty Sheer…
A 3 month charter along the Great Barrier Reef in Australia starting from Cairns to Sydney, diving, underwater filming, and campaigning against a new shale oil development on the edge of the World Heritage site.