All crew, scientists and Greenpeace team join the vessel in Port Wellington in time for dinner, store their gear and are assigned cabins.
The deck and technical crew work down to the wire to ensure all equipment is ready to go and we depart Wellington at 2200, in time to skip some incoming weather, and transit overnight to Marlborough Sounds.
The plan is to “wet test” the underwater cameras and put them through their paces, before we head out into the deep ocean.
Meet the team
Kat Goddard: (left) marine scientist and lecturer based in Northland, New Zealand. She is the lead scientist on board and led on designing the seamounts survey in collaboration with other scientists.
Ellie Hooper: (right) that’s me, the expedition lead from Greenpeace Aotearoa. I’ve worked on the oceans campaign at Greenpeace since 2019.
Dr Paige Maroni: (front) polar and deep-sea molecular biologist, specialising in the discovery and documentation of remote marine biodiversity. She will be leading on the work to identify species of the deep while onboard the Greenpeace voyage.
John Murphy: technical lead on the Seamounts Expedition
Grant Oakes, campaign operations advisor from Greenpeace International
And we’re off
We’d love you to follow us on our journey to uncover the secrets of the deep sea.
