Expedition and Research Charters

TIAMA is available for charter all year round. We mainly operate in the Southern Ocean south of New Zealand and Australia or south of southern South America during the summer months. For the other months of the year we sometimes voyage in warmer climates in the South Pacific region, please have a look at Charter Options for our current program.

MAIN AREA OF OPERATION: New Zealand, South Pacific, Southern South America, Antarctic and Sub Antarctic and the Arctic regions (on request worldwide). Tiama is available for all voyages as described . Unscheduled voyages will be accommodated where possible on request.

Bookings

For bookings contact us direct via fax, phone or e-mail. We can also advise on your personal travel plans and accommodation to get to and from departing and arrival points.

Logistics

We are available to assist and organise any aspect of your travels or expedition requirements. Please contact us directly to discuss your plans.

We are in the middle of our busy season, The boat has undergone yet another  mayor refit this winter adding to the new engine installation we did last winter. She  now has a 160 HP Yanmar engine driving a 3 bladed Variable pitch Hundasted propeller, most of the  installation  was done by Whiting Power in  [ Read More ]

It has been the biggest year to date and top of the list was our 5 week trip to the Balleny Islands at 66 degrees 50 minutes south. They are on the NW corner of the Ross Sea, mainland Antarctica and 1,200 miles due south of New Zealand.

A total of 12 trips to the Sub Antarctic, including 2 trips to Macquarie island which is half way down between NZ and the Antarctic. Its a small long skinny island in the middle of the Southern Ocean with so many penguins on some of the beaches that you can not see the end of the colonies.

In all we did 9 trips south, We had the normal succession of weather systems that you expect for these latitudes, although we did encounter one rather large wave that took out the Port wheelhouse window, this was a bit of a dramatic moment, but no serious damage was done and after some temporary repairs Tiama carried on in a safe and sound manner.

The incredible progress that we have made on the Kiunga imbak campaign and the ground work that we are having on RH are a tribute to the org, to our supporters, and particularly the many wonderful people who have worked with us on the campaign over the last three months. The success that we are having belongs to us all.

The new millennium started well for us with a charter to the Antipodes. The Antipodes are some of New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic islands. The job involved us filming the first sunrise of the new millennium and it was a spectacular one. We then beamed the image out live onto the internet via a huge inmarsat-B mounted on the aft deck especially for the occasion (which looked rather silly).

On the 4 of June Henk departed from Puerto Monttt, Chile with Tiama heading for Australia (a 7500 mile voyage across the “big pond” pacific ocean) with brief stops in Easter Island, Pitcairn, the Cooks island and Fiji. Bunny and Ruby rejoined Tiama in the Cook Islands in July and we arrived here in Cairns, Australia on 7 August.

Our first season working in the Antarctic Peninsula and the Cape horn region has finished. We are now in Puerto Montt a small port in southern Chile, the gateway to the Chilean channels that lead south to Cape Horn.

We’re have returned from our first Antarctic expedition. We arrived back in Ushuaia the night of Feb. 4th after beating our way up the Beagle for the last five hours. It was an adventure for all on board Tiama.

On November 4 we depart Auckland, New Zealand with 8 on board to set sail across the Southern Ocean for Ushuaia, Argentina. The ages of our crew range from our 10 year old daughter to our 63 year old mate David, mostly New Zealanders with…

Tiama’s maiden voyage – we managed to achieve all our objectives. This included a first recorded landfall on Cheeseman island collecting geological specimens for the Auckland Museum, for the purpose of dating the islands.