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On the 21St June 2007 the idea of the marine expedition was conceived. We can’t believe that over a year later we would have the privilege of hosting the launch function at the Victoria Junction Protea Hotel in Cape Town that would officially see us heading off two days later for the beginning parts of [...]

Well as you can imagine with 3 days left till we leave for 2 years, there is a lot of paperwork and admin to finish. Apart my complete lack of knowledge regarding car engines and the inability of Toyota to provide us with an engine manual, I have been studying the engine with intense concentration, the good news is I think I [...]

Well time is counting down rather fast. We leave on the 25th of August, leaving us just a few days to ensure all our ducks are in a row. Unfortunately there is a lot of work ahead of us. Some good news is that Protea Hotels has kindly sponsored our send off cocktail party on [...]

We were lucky to be hosted by the South African Shark Conservancy on the 2nd and 3rd of August 2008. Linda and I jumped at the opportunity at filming this positive initiative towards marine and more specifically shark conservation. The SASC office is housed in the scenic old harbour in Hermanus. The weather held out and we [...]

Both Linda and I would like to thank Otto Stehlik for his significant financial contribution towards the Marine Resource Expedition. We are so excited and grateful to his incredible generosity. We look forward to taking the challenge of the expedition and keeping everyone informed of the good the bad, the pretty and the ugly. The [...]