Past Projects
March 2011- August 2012
Pacific Voyagers
support Vessel
http://pacificvoyagers.org/
filming base for
'our Blue Canoe'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR_nk7ZEKcE
2010 - South Pacific, - Raivavae, Tahiti,
Cook Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Fiji,
- Support vessel for five
double hulled traditional
Polynesian vaka.
2009 - NZ Subantarctic - Auckland
Islands
winter-time southern right
whale research expedition to place
satellite tags and collect
biopsy samples
2008 - NZ Subantarctic - Auckland
Islands
sealion research team
2008 - NZ Subantarctic - Campbell
Island
- albatross research
team
2007 - NZ Subantarctic - National
Geographic
Magazine - whale expedition
2007 - Great Australian Bight
- NHNZ/ Discovery
Channel - bluefin tuna
documentary
2006 - Galapagos - Edinburgh
University climate research,
coring fossil corals.
2006 – Fiords of Southern Chile - Otago
University dolphin survey. We
spent six weeks in search
of the
Chilean dolphin, recording
sightings of whales and dolphins
between the Beagle Channel and
Puerto Montt.
2006 – Antarctic
Peninsula - we
spent February dodging ice in
search of unclimbed peaks.
2005 – Southern Ocean. We
sailed from New Zealand to South America. A voyage of 32
days in the
Furious Fifties with no sign of
other human life. We provisioned in
Chile and the Falkland Islands, for an
expedition to South
Georgia and Tierra
del Fuego.
2004 – Fiji and Tonga working
alongside scientists from Albany
State University, New
York, collecting
coral cores for climate
research.
2003 – Fiji and Southern
Gilbert Islands (Kiribati) with Arizona State University climate
scientists. Drilled
underwater for coral cores and used
the flying boat to survey and
photograph the reef.
2003 – Samoa and Tokelau
Islands - Logistical
support for SPREP (South Pacific
Region Environmental
Programme) survey and education
team. Teaching conservation - Back
to New
Zealand via Tonga.
2002 – Subantarctic,
Snares Islands BBC
Natural History documentary
expedition, filming
“Wild
Australasia”
Outstanding diving, with penguins,
sea lions and fur seals in the
crystal clear waters of the Southern
Ocean.
2002 – Auckland
Islands in New Zealand’s
subantarctic- midwinter filming
expedition- penguin documentary
for NHK of Japan.2001 – Antarctic
Peninsula. NHK (Japan) film-crew joined us in
Ushuaia, Argentina.
We spent five weeks in Antarctica, diving and filming
icebergs from the flying dinghy.
2001 – Chilean
Fiords, Tierra del
Fuego, Magellan Strait and Patagonia, photographing
glaciers from
the flying boat.
2000 – The
Northwest Passage – Dodging sea-ice in the west
and icebergs in the Baffin Sea,
we succeeded in crossing from the
Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean by
this infamous Arctic route.
2000 –The Aleutian Islands, Alaska; four
months making a documentary about the
Aleutian chain
for Natural History NZ Ltd and
PBS Oregon.
1999 – Cook
Islands
and the tiny Line Islands in the mid Pacific Ocean; nine
weeks collecting coral
samples for an Edinburgh University
climate study.
1999 – Stewart
Island (New
Zealand)
Natural History NZ charter, to film an octopus
documentary.
1998 – Ashmore
Reef in the Timor
Sea; filming a sea-snake
documentary for TVNZ’s Natural History.
We sailed from New
Zealand to Lord Howe
Island then inside the Great
Barrier Reef to Darwin.
1998 – Northern
Territory of Australia, filming
a documentary called Menacing Waters.1997 – Auckland Islands,
in New
Zealand’s Subantarctic. An Auckland Unversity research
expedition
studying Southern Right Whales.1996 – Auckland Islands and Campbell Island 7 weeks filming a TVNZ Natural
History documentary about Southern Right
Whales, “The Lost Whales”.
1995 – South Pacific from New
Zealand’s Subantarctic to Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu,
Solomon Islands and Australia’s Great
Barrier Reef to Tasmania and back to Fiordland in the
South Island
of New Zealand- nine
months filming the TV series "Deep
Blue."
1994 – New
Zealand’s Subantarctic Auckland and Campbell Islands- Evohe
was chartered by Fiordland
Ecology Holidays for
trips and various
research
voyages.
1993 – The South Seas. A
Cambridge University expedition. Cook Islands - a bathymetric survey of the
lagoon at Tongareva (Penrhyn).The
project included work on Rakahanga,
Manihiki and Palmerston atolls all
part of an ocean level study.
1992 – Marquesas Islands of French
Polynesia - BBC Natural History-
filming "Nomads of the Wind”.
we then sailed via the Cook Islands, Niue to Tonga , Minerva Reef and the
Kermadec Islands filming a
TVNZ natural history documentary about
reef fish.
1990-92 – Circumnavigation
-
From New Zealand
to Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon
Islands to
Papua New Guinea and Darwin, Australia. Then Indonesia - Timor,
Bali and Java, on to Borneo, Singapore,
Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and across
the Indian Ocean to
Djibouti, then through the Red Sea to
Saudi Arabia, Egypt and through the Suez
Canal into the
Mediterranean, then over the Atlantic to
the Caribbean, Panama, Ecuador,
Galapagos and French
Polynesia where we started the BBC
“Nomads” film.
1989 – Tasman Sea - Three
weeks spent scouring the sea for Asian pelagic
drift-netting vessels. Far from
pleasant but it contributed to
Earthtrust’s (Hawaii) successful anti-driftnet
campaign.
1988 – Cook
Islands. Under
charter to the Cook Islands government, Evohe became a temporary
Inter-island Trader.
1987 – Costa Rica was our base. From there
operated dive charters to Cocos Island.
1985/1986 – Sail
training, from
the UK across
the Atlantic to Venezuela and the
Caribbean. We were all
trainees.
1984 – We
prepared Evohe for a
world voyage with no idea
that it would last for 24
years.......So far.
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