Past
Projects
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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Stephen Kafka has
sailed Evohe on research
expeditions and
documentary filming projects
around the world for
more than 20 years |
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Alex,
the racing sailor in the family
spent much of his childhood on the boat
and is now an
Offshore Captain |
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