Die Polarregionen sind unser Metier. Von unseren erfahrenen Expeditionsführern über unsere tadellose Crew bis hin zu unserem vielseitig qualifizierten Büropersonal - das OEX-Team ist darauf bedacht, Ihnen die Arktis, Antarktis und Subantarktis so nah wie möglich zu bringen. Als erfahrene Passagiere unserer eigenen epischen Reisen bringen wir nicht nur unsere Liebe zur exotischen polaren Welt mit, sondern auch eine Fülle von Fachwissen, das von keinem anderen Polarreiseveranstalter übertroffen wird. Begleiten Sie uns auf eine unserer abenteuerlichen Reisen, und lassen Sie uns mit Ihnen teilen, was es in den entlegensten Gebieten der Erde alles zu sehen, zu tun und zu erforschen gibt.
Unserer Mitarbeiter
Expeditionspersonal
- Marcel Paul
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
Marcel has been a passionate traveler since his teens and has led hiking groups in Austria, Switzerland, England, Wales, and Scotland. His travels have brought him to over 65 countries on all seven continents.
Due to his interest in ice, cartography, exploration, history, and photography, the polar regions have always fascinated him. Starting with his first trip to Svalbard in 2011, he felt connected with the area’s nature and remoteness. It was then that he first became interested in being a polar expedition guide.
Marcel joined the SEES expedition to Edgeøya in 2015, participating in various research there. In 2016 he worked as a field assistant at Ny Ålesund, and since 2017 he has been working as a polar guide in the Arctic. He began guiding in Antarctica the following year.
Spending half the year as an Oceanwide guide, Marcel devotes the rest of his year to traveling with his wife and their dog. He lives in the Netherlands and Slovakia.
- Sara Jenner
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
For as long as Sara can remember, she has had a passion for travel and for finding the wildest and most remote places on Earth.
- Chris Long
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: New Zealander
Chris grew up as a part of New Zealand’s remotest family two long days hike from the nearest road at a place called Gorge River.
- Jan Belgers
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Ali Liddle
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Adam Turner
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Eduardo Rubio
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Guatemalan
- Florence Kuyper
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Hans Verdaat
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Rinie van Meurs
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Pippa Low
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Philipp Schaudy
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Austrian
- Claudio Ghiglione
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Italian
- George Kennedy
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Australian
- Christian Engelke
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: German
- Adam Burke
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
Aktivitätspersonal
- Henrik Enckell
- Funktion: Dive Team Leader & Advisor
- Nationalität: Swedish
Henrik is an experienced dive leader, rebreather instructor trainer, and one of the first dive masters to bring tourists diving in Antarctica.
Henrik has been diving for over 25 years and teaches all levels of recreational and technical diving up to Advanced Trimix CCR.
He runs the IART (International Association of Rebreather Trainers) Regional Office for Northern Europe and is a member of the IART Board of Advisors.
Henrik is a keen wreck diver and has been involved in deep-wreck expeditions all over the world. Some of the interesting wrecks he has visited are the WW2 disasters General von Steuben and Wilhelm Gustloff in the Baltic as well as the HMS Victoria ("the vertical wreck") at 145 meters (475 feet) off the Lebanese coast.
His interest in both the ocean and space has engaged him in projects with the European Space Agency (Mars500 Project) and SeaSpace Exploration and Research Society (Project Poseidon), among others.
He has a military background, having served in peace keeping and enforcing missions in the Middle East and former Yugoslavia.
He has been leading dive expeditions in Antarctica and the Arctic for almost 20 years in remote and challenging waters, many of which have never been dived before.
Henrik holds an M.Sc. Degree in Electrical Engineering and works in the automotive industry when not traveling the polar regions.
He has lived and worked in Tokyo for two years but currently lives in India with his wife, three teenage daughters, and five-year-old son.
- Michael Green
- Funktion: Dive Team Leader and Advisor
- Nationalität: British
Michael began diving in 1980, training with the Royal Navy in Portsmouth Harbour.
Kapitäne
- Toni Salo
- Funktion: Captain
- Nationalität: Finnish
Born and raised in Turku, Finland, Toni grew up in a city with ancient seagoing traditions. He has loved sailing since he was a child, when he regularly went out with his grandfather to experience life on the high seas. Ever since, he has dreamed of sailing to far-away places and exploring the world. Toni served in a naval base near Helsinki for two years before starting his studies at Maritime University in 1999. He got his officer’s license in 2003 and spent the first ten years of his career working on cargo ships.
After many years of gaining experience, he finished his studies and got his Master mariner license in 2012. Toni moved to the expedition industry the following year and has no plans of leaving it. He loves the nature, wildlife, and delivering a great polar travel product.
Toni joined Oceanwide Expeditions in 2018. Even though he’s sailed the seven seas and loves all the new places he gets to visit, there’s still a special place in his heart for the tiny island in Finland where it all started 40 years ago.
When he is on leave, Toni enjoys reading, cycling, fishing, and photography.
- Evgeny Levakov
- Funktion: Captain
- Nationalität: Russian
Evgeny Levakov was born in a small village not far from Nerekhta, an ancient Russian town in the Kostroma region. The closest water to his village was a 15,000 square-meter pond.
- Arthur Yakovlev
- Funktion: Captain
- Nationalität: Russian
Arthur Yakovlev was born in Petrozavodsk, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Karelia, in northwestern Russia.
- Joachim Schiel
- Funktion: Captain
- Nationalität: German
- Ernesto Barria
- Funktion: Captain
- Nationalität: Chilean
- Remmert Koster
- Funktion: Captain
- Nationalität: Dutch
Büro
- Kees Matthes
- Funktion: Nautical Superintendent
- Nationalität: Dutch
- George Janes
- Funktion: Senior Copywriter
- Nationalität: British
- Bas Jumelet
- Funktion: Assistant Hotel Operations Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Adam Turner
- Funktion: CXO - Head of Expedition Operations
- Nationalität: British
- Marissa Medrano
- Funktion: Accounting
- Nationalität: American
- Danique van Burken
- Funktion: Senior Marketing Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- John Yeh
- Funktion: Sales Representative China & South Asia & Oceania
- Nationalität: Chinese
- Sasha Rachkova
- Funktion: Online Marketeer
- Nationalität: Russian
- Ko de Korte
- Funktion: Consultant
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Alexandra den Dikken
- Funktion: Senior Graphic Designer
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Nyrée Siereveld-Verstraete
- Funktion: Account Assistant
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Gabi Merten
- Funktion: Reservations for the German speaking market
- Nationalität: German
- Andreas Diesing
- Funktion: Key Account Manager for the German speaking countries
- Nationalität: German
- Grace Vidal
- Funktion: Reservations, North-America
- Nationalität: American
- Michel van Gessel
- Funktion: Director
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Femke Wolfert
- Funktion: Staffing Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Michael Frauendorfer
- Funktion: Hotel Operations Manager
- Nationalität: Austrian
- Erik Hageman
- Funktion: CFO
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Stefan Pruimboom
- Funktion: Staffing and Operations Advisor
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Florian J. Piper
- Funktion: Director Sales | Arctic program
- Nationalität: German
- Piet Vink
- Funktion: Managing Director
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Teun van ‘t Verlaat
- Funktion: Technical Superintendent
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Marina Joglar
- Funktion: Reservations, North-America
- Nationalität: American
- Sebastiaan Schijf
- Funktion: Financial Controller
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Loraine van Huizen
- Funktion: Online Marketeer
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Karin Toornstra
- Funktion: Reservations
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Maria del Pilar Fernandez
- Funktion: International Sales Manager
- Nationalität: Chilean
- Majanda Fens
- Funktion: Reservations Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Elza Back
- Funktion: Account Assistant
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Toto Vermue
- Funktion: Sales Accountmanager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Marie Rose Porreca
- Funktion: Reservations, North-America
- Nationalität: American
- Dorine van Boekhout
- Funktion: Reservations
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Franklin Braeckman
- Funktion: Antarctic Program Manager
- Nationalität: Belgian