After celebrations in Perth the Lady Amber will continue its journey to Hobart to meet with the Argo officials from CSIRO.
Activities will include participation in the Global Water Experiment and presentations a subsurface profiling float of the Argo programme, implemented under the auspices of UNESCO.
The Argo network makes a major contribution to the Indian Ocean Observing System and will assist scientists better udnerstand and be able to predict the Ocean's dynamics.
Recently a South African education sailing ship, Lady Amber, has been enlisted to deploy the Argo floats in parts of the Southern Indian Ocean which are otherwise seldom visited by research or cargo vessels.
Its Hollywood unit, Warner Bros, saw a 4% dip in revenues in the October-December period as the theatre releases of the Hobbit and Argo in the period failed to match the impact of the home release of the last Harry Potter film and the Batman Arkham City game a year ago.
The first Argo floats were deployed in late 1999, and by November 2012, Argo had collected its millionth profile of temperature and salinity, twice the number obtained by research vessels during all of the 20th century. 120, 000 new profiles are collected every year, at the impressive rate of 1 profile approximately every 4 minutes.
The IOC supports the JCOMM-OPS office in Toulouse which coordinates the deployment of the over 3400 Argo floats throughout the world oceans and 1250 surface drifters.
"This is like the most memorable aspect of the Oscars, " the "Argo" director said.
Bill and I a couple of weeks ago went to see the movie Argo, and if you haven't gone to see it, I commend it to you.
The prize came a day after Argo won the top honour at the Producers Guild Awards, the winner of whose best film prize often goes on to win best picture at the Oscars.
My guess is that the fight between Argo and Lincoln is causing partisans in both camps to rank their preference at the top of their ballots and then rank the other film much lower, while a lot of voters in both camps are probably placing Silver Linings Playbook within their top three films.
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The episode was made famous again this year by the release of the hit movie "Argo, " loosely based on the real-life drama.
The truth - which Argo artfully obscures - is that the cover story was never tested and in some ways proved irrelevant to the escape.
The cast prize at SAG adds some weight to the Oscar prospects for "Argo, " though the guild honor has a spotty record at forecasting eventual best-picture winners.
Time Warner did benefit from the home releases of "Argo" and "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" and from a new studio tour in London tied to the "Harry Potter" franchise.
Unlike the six Americans who hid with the Canadian ambassador who were the focus of "Argo, " Limbert was one of the 52 Americans held -- and tortured -- by Iranians for 14 months.
"This film, which will be a big production, should be an appropriate response to the ahistoric film 'Argo, '" said Ataollah Salmanian, the director of the Iranian film, according to Mehr.
Now, after a year of operations in the Indian Ocean for Argo Australia, under UNESCO, and JCOMM, the Lady Amber will be making landfall in Perth Australia, where she will be greeted by our Perth Regional Programme Office and Australia's CSIRO.
Organisers described the 40-year-old as "a multi-dimensional artist" who had "come into his own" with the release of Argo, his third film as director.
Last week the BBC World broadcast a special GOOS and Argo episode of the "Earth Reporters Sea Change".
The SAG cast win came a day after "Argo" claimed the top honor from the Producers Guild of America, whose winner often goes on to claim best picture at the Academy Awards.
The awards momentum positions "Argo" for a rare feat at the Feb. 24 Oscars, where it could become just the fourth film in 85 years to be named best picture without a nomination for its director.
Soon after the remote camera mounted on Ballard's undersea robot, Argo, spotted the vessel's massive boiler on the ocean floor, Ballard was calling ABC, NBC and CBS from his ship's radio.
The film's producers said they had expected fellow Oscar best-picture nominee "Beasts of the Southern Wild" to win the top Spirit Award and that they have no expectations of winning the big prize at the Oscars, where Ben Affleck's CIA thriller "Argo" is the best-picture favorite.
The hotel's eighth-floor Stardust Room was featured in "Argo, " the Iran hostage drama that won this year's Oscar for best picture.
The hotel's eighth-floor Stardust Room was featured in "Argo, " the Iran hostage drama that is one of this year's best picture nominees.
The company began selling "Argo" by way of digital download while Oscar buzz was at its hottest, weeks before the movie's release on DVD.
In Argo, the Oscar-winning film about the rescue, Mendez is played by Ben Affleck, who wore tweed in the movie.
Before Argo, the temperature and salinity of the subsurface oceans could only be measured from ships or fixed point moorings.
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