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Jun 6, 2021 · The Gaualofa was gifted to Samoa by Okeanos Chief Executive Officer Dieter Paulmann and his wife in 2012 when Samoa celebrated its 50 th anniversary of independence, Tuatagaloa said. “This day marks nine years since the boat was gifted by Dieter Paulmann and his wife to Samoa,” he said.
Dieter Paulmann formed two teams of ‘noisebusters’ with marine biologists, acousticians, cameramen and veterinarians based in Halifax and London for immediate autopsy of stranded whales. The hugest success of ‘noisebusters’ though was the intervention they made to RIMPAC, the world’s largest marine maneuvre with 200 vessels, of which ...
Jan 14, 2018 · In 2012 Gaualofa was gifted to the Samoa Voyaging Society by Okeanos Foundation for the Sea founder by Dieter Paulmann and his wife Hanna. I got the chance to speak with Schannel Fanene van Dijken, President of the Samoan Voyaging Society and who works for Conservation International Samoa.
It is hard to say if it was a coincidence, fate or both at the same time when in 1990, Okeanos founder Dieter Paulmann encountered a white sperm whale and was the first ever to film this encounter. Diving with this magnificent and legendary whale in a group of fifty sperm whales changed his life for sure.
To appreciate where we are today, is to know where we have come from Faafetai Faafetai tele Okeanos - Foundation for the Sea Susuga Dieter and Hannah Paulmann for the Gift of Gaualofa mo...
In June of 2012, Gaualofa was gifted to SVS and Samoa by Okeanos founder, Dieter Paulmann and his wife Hanna. Our va’atele has already sailed more than 40,000 nautical miles – a distance further than a circumnavigation of the globe!
Okeanos. – Foundation for the Sea. A fabulous seventy per cent of the earth is covered by oceans. They are the fascinating and mysterious heart of our planet and the powerful lungs that make human life on land possible. Despite their seeming inexhaustibility, our oceans are fragile systems, finite and vulnerable.