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World’s Best Expedition Cruise Line 2022
It is with great delight that we announce we have been nominated for World’s Best Expedition Cruise Line at the second annual World Cruise Awards.
Oceanwide participates in fourth annual Cleanup for Sarah
During Cleanup for Sarah, we encourage our staff and followers on social media to join us in removing litter from nature areas. These efforts are meant to continue the spirit of Sarah’s work with Clean Seas, a campaign she led to remove plastic waste from the Arctic as well as reduce the use of plastics aboard Arctic cruise vessels.
Hondius begins her Arctic season, with other ships to follow
Oceanwide’s Polar Class 6 vessel Hondius set sail from her homeport Vlissingen in the Netherlands on Sunday, delivering passengers to her first Arctic voyage of the season.
Oceanwide Expeditions Continues Charity Donations Based on Passenger Reviews
Some years ago, we made an offer to our former passengers: For every review they left on our website, we would donate €5 to a charity of their choice. This resulted in donations to four excellent nature conservation organizations, and we were happy to continue the tradition this year.
Introducing our new Science Basecamp program
For polar travelers with a particular bent for science, we have designed an all-new Science Basecamp program that explores such fascinating topics as geology, marine biology, glaciology, and macro-photography.
Cleanup for Sarah continues
Cleanup for Sarah began in 2019 and takes place every year on June 16, Sarah’s birthday.
Vote for World’s Best Expedition Cruise Line 2021
We are delighted to announce that we have been nominated for the World’s Best Expedition Cruise Line 2021 award at the inaugural event of the World Cruise Awards
Bolster Investment Partners acquires a minority stake in Oceanwide Expeditions
Amsterdam/ Vlissingen, 17 December 2020, Bolster Investment Partners acquires a minority stake of 25% in Oceanwide Expeditions, specialist and market leader in expedition cruises to Antarctica and the Arctic. Bolster will support Oceanwide Expeditions in realizing its growth ambitions.
Help Us Win with Your Vote
After winning last year's award, we could not be more pleased to be nominated for the thirteenth time
Oceanwide Expeditions enhances safety protocols in response to Covid-19
Oceanwide Expeditions is innovating a series of new safety protocols to assure the health and wellbeing of its guests continue to take top priority during voyages.
Oceanwide Removes Local Waste in Memory of Sarah Auffret
Oceanwide Expeditions joined numerous people around the world in the AECO-organized waste removal effort known as Cleanup for Sarah on June 16, her birthday
Oceanwide Expeditions donates excess supplies to local food bank
Dutch polar travel operator Oceanwide Expeditions has donated the excess food stocked aboard its ships to Food Bank De Bevelanden in the Netherlands.
Out of Antarctica, into the Outbreak
On the morning of March 18, Oceanwide vessels Plancius and Ortelius were returning north across the Drake Passage, bound for Ushuaia after Antarctic expedition cruises.
Oceanwide Five-Time World Travel Award Winner
Oceanwide Expeditions was named the 2019 World’s Leading Polar Expedition Operator at the World Travel Awards gala held on November 28 in the Sultanate of Oman.
Our Third Consecutive Landing at Snow Hill Island
For the third time in as many years, Oceanwide Expeditions has achieved helicopter landings at Snow Hill Island, hiking our passengers to the rarely visited emperor penguin colony there.
Publieksdag Expedities Spitsbergen 2015/2020 - Poolshoogte nemen!
Een nieuwe grote Nederlandse wetenschappelijke expeditie naar Spitsbergen staat weer in de steigers. Na het grote succes van SEES 2015 zullen in augustus 2020 vijftig wetenschappers en vijftig ‘anderen’ afvaren naar Edgeøya, Spitsbergen.
WE CAN DO IT, WITH YOUR VOTES!
To our delight, Oceanwide Expeditions has been nominated as World’s Leading Polar Expedition Operator at the 2019 World Travel Awards.
Oceanwide Expeditions cleanup removes 1,000 kg of plastic from Svalbard
Thirteen Oceanwide guides and 50 passengers removed roughly 1,000 kg (2,200 pounds) of plastic from the beaches of Svalbard last week, about half the weight of an average car.
Oceanwide Expeditions’ “Wild, Wild South” video an Adventure in Motion finalist
Oceanwide’s short video, “Wild, Wild South: Falklands, South Georgia, Antarctica,” has been selected as a finalist in the sixth annual Adventure in Motion competition, hosted by Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) in partnership with AFAR.
Oceanwide guides dedicate beach cleanup to Sarah Auffret
Last week guides and passengers of an Oceanwide Expeditions voyage to the Arctic cleaned plastic off a Svalbard beach in memory of Sarah Auffret, an environmental agent for the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO) who died in Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 on March 10.
Our New m/v Hondius Makes Its Maiden Arctic Voyage
Today we celebrate the maiden Arctic voyage of our new ship, m/v Hondius. After more than two years from conception to construction, this newest member of our nautical family has finally left home.
