Wanted: Adventurous types

The SV Caliph is envisaged to be a floating classroom for students on the 12-week Master Class in Adventure.

Bay of Islands-based outdoor education business Adventure for Good has launched its prospectus and curriculum for its 12-week Master Class in Adventure and is now seeking students.

Adventure for Good spokeswoman Rebecca Moore said the company was targeting US and German students for the first intake of 20 to start the first course in January next year.

Rebecca Moore.

She said the company intended to run two further courses at the Marine Adventure Research Centre in Russell, starting in April and September.

The course costs of $25,000 per student include full board as well as a range of outdoor-related educational activities, such as fitness, outdoor safety and risk management, ecology and the environment, scuba diving, introduction to sailing and sea kayaking, as well as two one-week course-driven expeditions and one two-week expedition designed and driven by students.

Much of the education will be on the sailing vessel Caliph.

Ms Moore said course participants needed to be reasonably fit and older than 18 and have an interest in the outdoors.

"However, we have had inquiries from people of all ages," she said.

She added the course would be ideal for recent graduates and those with an interest in marine biology or a similar discipline.

The course is not NCEA-accredited but Ms Moore said the company hoped to be in the future.

Ms Moore said some course components would be outsourced, including scuba diving and marine biology and local expertise would be used when necessary.

Adventure for Good is starting a road trip around New Zealand next month, targeting foreign students already here and then heading off-shore in June.

The company is also in the process of building the Marine Adventure Research Centre.

Ms Moore said any money made from the Master Class in Adventure programme would be put into the associated charitable Expeditionary Trust for such projects as the recent deployment to the remote Temotu Province in the Solomon Islands on a relief mission after Cyclone Pam.

Adventure for Good was set up by Kerikeri adventurers and teachers Christian Pera and Chris Wallis. Winemaker Antonio Pasquale donated the land for the Marine Adventure Research Centre as well as the SV Caliph.

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