VEMA Seamount Expedition

aboard "Emerson K" : November 9-18, 1964

  • Purpose: To test the hypothesis that marine diamonds derive from submarine "pipes" (analogous to that in Kimberley)
  • Participants:
    Prof.Eric Simpson, University of Capetown (Chief Scientist)
    Prof. Siegfried Maske, Geologist, University of Stellenbosch
    Ken Biesheuvel, Geophysicist, Anglo American Corp., Johannesburg
    Ben Oostdam, Marine Geologist, Ocean Science and Engineering, Capetown
    Allan Heydorn, Fisheries Expert
    "Doc"Dawie Pretorius, RSA Navy
    		 Dave Garisch, Geologist
    Gary Haselau, Diver/Photographer
    Gavin Blatchford, Diver/Bosun
    Henny Crous, Fisheries Assistant
    ... Dutoit, Journalist
    Jaap van Deventer, Journalist, Die Burger
    Mike Westhead, Hardhat Diver
    Master: George Fowlis
    First Mate: ... Pritchard
    Second Mate: Lt"K(l)aas" Wagenveld (Dutch)
    Hydrographer: Kees ....
    Engineer: ........(from Balikpapan)
    Prof. Simpson inspecting winch
    divers "shark" cage
  • some reports/publications (more links HERE):
    E.W. Simpson and A.E. Heydorn, 1965: Vema Seamount, Nature, v.207, n.4914, pp 249-251
    Ben Oostdam: Letter to SEAHORSE, v.1, n.9, April 1966
    [Anon.], 1967: Research on the Vema Seamount, Cape Town, Commercial Fishing Newsp. -5.
    Berrisford, C.D., 1969: Biology and Zoogeography of the Vema Seamount: a Report on the First Biological Collection Made on the Summit. Trans. Royal Soc.of South Africa 38: 387-398
    Heydorn, A.E., 1969: The South Atlantic Rock Lobster Jasus tristani at Vema Seamount, Gough Island and Tristan De Cunha.
    South African Div.Sea Fish.Inves.Rep. 73: 1-20.
    Lutjeharms, J.R.E. and A.E.F. Heydorn, 1981: The rock lobster Jasus tristani on Vema Seamount: Drifting buoys suggest a possible recruiting mechanism, Deep-Sea Research 28, 631-637
    Lutjeharms, J.R.E. and A.E.F. Heydorn, 1981: Recruitment of rock lobster on Vema Seamount from the isalands of Tristan da Cunha. Deep-Sea Research 28A, n10, p.1237
    Added 20110120: re 2008 explo 2 days R.V. G.O,. Sars:
    Flying Fish etc, 2008
    BLO fecit 20051106