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Evohe
 a 25m steel  expedition vessel 

South pacific vaka trip june 2010




Dusky sound 2008 from helicopter
the vessel has accommodation for 12 passengers and 8 crew. It is well suited to transporting & supporting research & filming expeditions to remote locations around the world and carries a comprehensive list of equipment  including two aluminium  RIB  tenders and  two Bauer dive compressors as well as a two-man flying dinghy

Past Projects

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.
marumaru atua
galapagos marine iguana
slow progress through ice
2009 southern right whale expedition
deck
king penguin south georgia 2005


evohe  is a  surveyed  commercial  vessel,  licensed to carry passengers.  Vital  systems  such as  engines  and  generators are duplicated,  providing added safety and  reliability. She is the veteran of  many expeditions  including a successful  transit of the  Arctic via the Northwest Passage
Te Matau A Maui & Hine Moana Rarotong May2010           flying antarctica Feb 2001

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