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She is terrified of sharks but can’t wait to swim with them.
Former Howick College scholars Inka Pleiss and Ethan McCormick can’t wait to take off on a Blake Expedition to the Kermadec Islands aboard HMNZS Canterbury.
Blake Expeditions is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for young New Zealanders to be part of an adventurous ocean voyage with the Royal New Zealand Navy. Delegates travel to remote and environmentally-significant areas such as the Kermadec and Sub-Antarctic Islands to explore the most remote and bio-diverse spots on the planet
Excited about swimming with sharks and discovering fish and birdlife they’ve never seen before, the Blake Expeditions provides an opportunity to learn from world-class scientists and environmentalists while undertaking research.
The information is gathered using a range of sophisticated equipment including multi-beam echo sounder sonar, high accuracy GPS , sound sensor, shore mounted tide gauges, and computers and navigation software to interface sensors together andrecord datasets. Jimmy van der Pauw, who is leading the survey team with LINZ senior hydrographer Bradley Cooper, and data scientist Eva Lichtenburg-Cloo, said the best part of the survey was finding unexpected seafloor features.
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The sub-sea survey team of data scientist Eva Lichtenburg Cloo, left, Discovery Marine Ltd lead hydrographer Jimmy van der Pauw and Land Information NZ senior hydrographer Bradley Cooper. As an der Pauw guides the
Māori woman first Royal NZ Navy representative to have moko kauae
5 Feb, 2021 04:10 PM
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Melanie Huata-Lucas, 32, becomes the first Māori woman in the Royal New Zealand Navy to have a moko kauae, an ancestral marking on a woman s chin.
NZ Herald
By: Te Rina Triponel, Māori Affairs Reporter
Melanie Huata-Lucas - who last year became the first representative of the Royal New Zealand Navy to have a moko kauae - says she hopes to encourage other wahine Māori sailors to be confident in their identity.
The 32-year-old received her moko kauae after 13 years of service with the Navy as a sailor and events co-ordinator. She is now transitioning into a new role as marae events and protocol manager for the Navy.