UMC 2024 FIELD TRIPS
This year we will have two field trip options:
1- Friday, Sept. 20, 2024 - 10:00 to 16:00
Rarotonga Muri Lagoon Private Glass Bottom Boat Cruise
with BBQ lunch - USD 75 (includes bus to pick up and drop off)
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2- Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024 - 13:00 to Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024 - 16:30
3-day excursion on the Anuanua Moana
to visit the Moana Minerals license area in the Cook Islands - USD 950
Captain Tama’s Rarotonga Glass Bottom Boat Cruise
Private world famous Muri Lagoon cruise in a tropical paradise including FRESH FISH BBQ lunch
Be entertained by Captain Tama’s and his crew on this once in a lifetime, most unforgettable experience. Watch the magical ocean through the glass bottomed boat, listen to island stories with typical Cook Island humor.
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Leap off the boat, snorkel and meet the reef fish up close and personal. Or chill out and float above the coral paradise.
After snorkeling the crew will entertain you with hilarious coconut husking demo’s as well as how to shimmy up a coconut tree. Their demonstration of 100 ways to tie a sarong will have you in stitches.
Captain Tama’s and his entertaining crew have been sharing their tropical island playground with visitors since 1992 on their award-winning Muri Lagoon cruise.
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Bring… towels, swim gear, sunscreen and camera’s… we’ll take care of everything else.
Field Trip at the Anuanua Moana
Moana Minerals Limited (MML) is sponsoring a 3-day excursion on the Anuanua Moana to visit the Moana Minerals license area in the Cook Islands where the field trip participants will have an opportunity to witness ROV and box core operations providing live footage of the seafloor and the nodules thereon and to firsthand see nodules and seafloor recovered to the vessel. This field trip will provide valuable insights into the operations of a working research vessel, and an immersive experience into the world of the Cook Islands deep ocean.
ONLY 14 spots available.
Lottery of interested parties will happen at UMC.
Proposed itinerary:
• Thursday 19th September 2024
o 13h00 – Conduct safety induction and safety drills.
o 14h00 – Depart for license area
• Friday 20th September 2024,
o 16:00 – Deploy ROV, and undertaken seafloor observations
o 23:00 – Recover ROV and secure on deck
• Saturday 21st September 2024,
o 07:00 – Deploy box core
o 11:00 – Recovery box core on deck
o 12:00 – Commence transit back to Rarotonga.
• Sunday 22nd September 2024,
o 16:00 – Dock in Avatui, Rarotonga
o 16:30 – Passengers disembark.
During the field trip, talks and demonstrations will be provided on work done in the past, facilities and equipment.
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All participants are required to:
• Be capable of moving around the vessel Anuanua Moana without assistance (i.e. medically fit).
• Be willing to share accommodation.
• Accept the duration will be 3.5 days.
• Accept embarkation and disembarkation will be in Rarotonga. The vessel will not be stopping in Aitutaki.
• Participants to sign the required indemnification forms.
• Practical, dietary restrictions can be accommodated
MML and IMMS reserves the right to deny any participants we feel we are not able to adequately accommodate.
