This Summer we have been
working out of the friendly port of Bluff, NZ southern
most port, for 12 separate voyages into
the Southern Ocean, including 2 voyages to Macquarie
for the BBC, most of the work has been science and
research support voyages, we also took the designer of
Tiama, Alan Mummery for a 12 day trip to Auckland
and Campbell island, the season ended with a charter
for the NZ Geological and nuclear sciences
institute conducting a geological survey of the Wild
Fiordland coastline.
September 2006- April 2007 Tiama has had anopther busy
summer working in the Sub Antarctic islands 12
separate expeditions over a 7
month period, most of the work has been as
support vessel to the NZ government dept of Conservation
(DOC) and the NZ national institute of water and
Atmosphere (NIWA)with a notable expedition to
the Auckland islands supporting the White Capped
Albatross work carried out by NIWA. we also were
the support vessel during Jack Finns attempt
at circumnavigating the Auckland islands by kayak to
raise awareness for the hemophiliac
foundation.
September 2005- April 2006
Tiama spend 6 months working out of the
Port of Bluff as support vessel for 6 scientific
expeditions, including on memorial, 5 week
expedition to the Balleny islands in the Antarctic.
this was a Bio diversity/diving expedition for
the NZ Ministry of fisheries, We were the first
small boat to reach the island in 27 years. and
the first small boat ever to stay there for 10
days and carry out a major scientific survey
of the islands. Click
here for the full story...
July
2005-September 2005:
Tiama's skipper Henk Haazen spend 6 weeks on the
Expedition vessel Pelagic Australis in an attempt
to pass through the famous North West Passage, crossing
over the top of Canada and Alaska from the Atlantic
to the Pacific Ocean. Due to abnormal heavy ice
conditions we had to turn back about half way
through, but it laid the foundations for a Polar
circumnavigation with Tiama in the near future.
November
2004-April 2005:
Tiama spent 6 months working in the
NZ sub Antarctic islands visiting all of the islands at least once, and most of
them 2 or 3 times, working for the NZ National
institute of Water And Atmosphere (NIWA) and for
the NZ Dep of conservation supporting their on-going research programs including a 2 week dive charter to the remote Bounty and Antipode
islands. We were also the support vessel
for a 12-day Wildlife Photography expedition
to the Auckland and Campbell islands.
December
2003-March 2004:
Tiama spent 4 months working for the New
Zealand department of Conservation carrying out
a variety of tasks in support of their conservation
and research programs, including being the main
support vessel for an unprecedented 2 week long
research dive operation in the Auckland islands.
April
2003-august 2003:
Tiama spent 3 months working deep in the
jungle of Papua New Guinea, sailing 1200 miles
on the Fly and Bamu rivers, working with the local
landowners against Malaysian logging companies
who were carrying out illegal logging operations
in their tribal lands.
January
2003 - March 2003:
Tiama spent the southern summer sailing in Fiordland
National Park, after which we spent one
month in the NZ sub-Antarctic working with the
NZ Department of Conservation as a logistic support
vessel for their historic survey of the Auckland
Islands.
April
2002 -September 2002:
Tiama again participated in a highly successful
Peace Flotilla protesting against MOX Plutonium
shipments transiting the Pacific. The flotilla
stopped the ships for a day mid -Tasman.
January
2002 - February2002:
Tiama spent the southern summer working amongst
the New Zealand sub Antarctic islands as
support vessel for a kayak and photographic expedition.
December
2000 - April 2001: Tiama sailed
from Australia to participate
in a peace flotilla against plutonium fuel
shipments through the Pacific. Tiama was one
of 8 sailing boats from New Zealand and Australia
sailing out into the mid Tasman in February
2001 to form a symbolic chain of protest and to promote a nuclear free
Tasman. This was followed by a months tour
to key southern ports of Australia for
Greenpeace.
December
2000 - April 2000:
Tiama's skipper
worked with Greenpeace on a floating ice
camp on the Beaufort sea in the Arctic conducting
a protest against a new offshore oil development
by BP
December
1999 - January 2000: a
charter over the new year to the Antipode
Islands,-part of New Zealand's sub Antarctic islands
in the Southern Ocean. This was part of a project
that involved being in a place that would see the
sunrise of the new millennium first and sending emails
from Tiama using the energy from that first sun of
the new millennium.
August
- October 1999:a
3 month charter working along the Australian Great
Barrier Reef from Cairns to Brisbane.
February
- March 1999: a 5 week voyage through the Chilean Patagonian
Channels and then back across the Pacific.
January
- February 1999: From
Ushuaia, Argentina we undertook a 5 week expedition
to the Antarctic, with six Australian climbers.
November
- December
1998: For her maiden
voyage we crossed the Southern Ocean from New Zealand
rounding Cape Horn exactly 12 months to the day since we
had launched the boat back in New Zealand.