Expedition Sailing Vessel

We specialise in safe, reliable
expeditions to the Arctic, Antarctic
& beyond

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TIAMA is an expedition boat with a highly experienced crew, available worldwide

Henk Haazen

Skipper

We specialise in providing safe and reliable transportation and logistical support for research, filming or private expeditions to the Arctic or Antarctic or any other of the worlds  more  remote and hard to get to places.

We pride ourselves for delivering on our promises, on time and within budget while having fun doing it. Please have a look at the client feedback.

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April 2024,  FROZEN IN

By PDD Admin
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We are finally back in a place where Tiama looks the part. While we loved the time in the more temperate climates, it is really the more northern waters that hold our fascination. We are totally frozen in with few feet of ice around the boat and the reflex’s heater humming away down below. Cosy as, enjoying  the…

Tiama’s Northern European summer 2019

By Henk
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Tiama’s Adventures, Update 2019-12-27.   Alvor  Portugal Dear Friends This is a short update of our summer travels 2019, maybe they are not as exciting in the sense of going to remote colder nooks of the planet but they  are adventurous  in the that we, Bunny and I managed to go sailing together just the 2 of…
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  • August 2019 to January 2020

    By Henk
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    Tiama spent the northern summer slowly making her way south. First through the Standing Mast Route on the inland water ways of the Netherlands, then down the southern coast of England, crossing the Bay of Biscay to spend most of the winter months on the east coast of Spain and Portugal.

  • May 2018 to November 2018

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    Amsterdam to Spitsbergen via Norway Land if Ice and snow and Polar bears, what a place, endless series of Fiords and Glaciers,  lots of wildlife and really nice people onboard for the whole time We also met up with a very old friend  who has been working on a research station there for 25 years,…

  • July 2015 to May 2017

    By Henk
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      We have been steadily working our trade as a logistical support vessel for science, film and tourist  trips into the Southern ocean these last few years, for the record over the last 16 years we have done more then 170 Round trips to the Sub Antarctic islands and the Antarctic, the duration of each…

  • November 2014 to July 2015

    By Henk
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    We have had the busiest Souther summer season to date,  working with 2 BBC film crews in the sub-Antarctic to  film the mating ritual of the Bullers Albatross when the couple first meet after not seeing each other for a year at sea plus the extreme sight and noise of thousands of small  Sooty Sheer…

  • October 2013 to October 2014

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    The most fascinating trip of this season was spending a month in the middle of winter 2014 in NW BayCampbell island as support vessel to a NIWA  Souther Right whale research program, this population had not been studied for 25 years, we managed to obtain lots of identification photographs combined  with 24 biopsy samples greatly…

  • September 2012 to June 2013

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    More good work in the NZ Sub Antarctic including follow up work with 2 dogs the check up on  the rateradication  and re-introduction of the Teal on Campbell island, the dogs did not mind the sea travel to much as long as they had somebody to play with, and made themselves at home onboard, this…

  • October 2011 to May 2012

    By Henk
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    A big season behind us, another 11 voyages to the various NZ Sub Antarctic islands, mostly research support trips including a voyage to the Antipode and Bounty islands to do a penguin count and a Salvins albatross count on the Bounty islands, the latter are very remote and not visited much, they are also called…

  • September 2010 to May 2011

    By Henk
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    A busy southern summer season  in the Sub Antarctic  10 departures and returns from NZmost souther port, Bluff. lots of interesting trips including the regular Albatross  research support voyages for the NZ National institute of Water and Atmosphere (NIWA) and providing logistics support for a voyage  to Campbell island for  the biology department of the University of Otago. We also undertook a 2 week voyage to the Auckland islands undertaking…

  • September 2009 to May 2010

    By Henk
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      We had another  long and intersting  season working in the NZ Sub Antarctic, starting with 20 day charter to the Snares working with the Salvins albatross  and then a one month long survey of the Auckland islands looking for yellow Eyed Penguins, this was the fist time such a  survey was carried out, the Auckland islands are the last bastion for these endangered species  this was early…

  • September 2008 to May 2009

    By Henk
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    Back to the  NZ sub Antarctic for another  series of 12 science, research  and logistical support  voyages for the NZ Dep of Conservation and the National institute of Water and Atmosphere.It has been a good summer with Tiama and her crew working hard but also having fun, and lots of interesting work being done by…

  • September 2005

    By Henk
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    Tiama spent 6 months working out of the Port of Bluff as support vessel for 6 scientific expeditions, including on memorial, 5 week expedition to the Balleny islands in the Antarctic.

  • July 2005

    By Henk
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    Tiama’s skipper Henk Haazen spend 6 weeks as the mate on the 73 foot expedition sailing vessel Pelagic Australia in an attempt to sail true the North west Passage over the Top of Canada and Alaska from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, due to unusual heavy Ice conditions we had to turn back half way true, it was a scouting mission, laying the ground work to take Tiama through this passage in the near future.

  • December 2003

    By Henk
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    Tiama spent 4 months working for the New Zealand department of Conservation carrying out a variety of tasks in support of their conservation and research programs, including being the main support vessel for an unprecedented 2 week long research dive operation in the Auckland islands.

  • April 2003

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    Tiama Sailed from NZ to Papua New Guinea and worked there for 3 months on the Fly and Bamu river, working for the Greenpeace forest campaign on invitation of the local land owners to try stop illegal logging operations on there Tribal lands by Malaysian logging companies. We sailed 1200 miles on the rivers penetrating deep into the remaining PNG rainforest.