Deployment Opportunities

South Africa

Contact point:


Johan Stander

Senior Manager, South African Weather Service
johan.stander@weathersa.co.za
Tel +27 12 367 6047
Address
Private Bag X 197
Pretoria, 0001
South Africa

 

Potential ship deployment opportunities :

Potential area, ship routes

South Atlantic Ocean, South Indian Ocean
Cape Town - Gough Island/Tristan da Cunha
Cape Town - Antarctica Cape Town - Marion Island
AX-18 (Cape Town - Buenos Aires)
Time period, regularity

- Updated August 2009 -

Gough Deployment Voyage September-October 2009
SANAE deployment voyage January/February 2010
Marion Island in April/May 2010.
Polarstern - Routine stop on the way to Antartica from Bremerhaven (not stopping at Cape Town in 2009)

Routine: Sept, Dec-Jan, late Feb. for fishing vessels (Falklands, Tristan da Cunha)
Type of ship (e.g. VOS, research ship, navy ship)

Research/relief vessels,
fishing vessels
Availability of crew onboard (none, minimal, moderate, high) Possible (not for fishing vessels)
Whether technician(s) can embark the ship (needed for floats, XBTs, moored buoy servicing) Possible (not for fishing vessels)
Whether the ship can stop (needed for moored buoy servicing) Possible (not for fishing vessels)

Tristan da Cunha from fishing vessels - Throughout the year

Potential air deployment opportunities: No

Example of buoy deployment opportunities:

Deployment plans for 2007.

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