Ocean science yacht Tara departs Cape Town



9:42 PM Mon 6 Sep 2010 GMT
'Tara journeys' .
The French-flagged 36metre superyacht, Tara, once owned by murdered New Zealand yachtsman Sir Peter Blake, has just left Cape Town as part of her three year world voyage. The Tara, a 120 ton aluminium hulled schooner, wants to find the answers to some key questions about our oceans, with concentration on ocean plankton. 'We are going to Ascension Island -- we'll be there in one month and then in Rio in the middle of October,' Captain Olivier Marien told AFP reporters shortly ahead of the yacht's departure. 'We have a busy schedule on the way so we will make several ...


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