Nuestro Equipo

Oceanwide staff

Nos dedicamos a las regiones polares. Desde nuestros expertos guías de expedición, pasando por nuestra impecable tripulación, hasta nuestro diverso y cualificado personal de oficina, el objetivo del equipo de la OEX es ofrecerle la máxima experiencia en el Ártico, la Antártida y el subantártico. Pasajeros experimentados de nuestros propios viajes épicos, aportamos no sólo un amor por el exótico mundo polar, sino también una riqueza combinada de experiencia sin igual por cualquier otro operador turístico polar. Acompáñenos en uno de nuestros viajes de aventura y permítanos compartir con usted todo lo que hay que ver, hacer y explorar en las fronteras más remotas de la Tierra.

Personal de expedición

  • Jan Belgers
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch

Jan Belgers was born in the Netherlands and currently lives in Rotterdam. He has been working as a professional outdoor guide and expedition leader for many years.

Traveling and wilderness guiding are his passions. His work as a guide has brought him from the high ranges of the Himalayas and Andes to the extreme latitudes of Spitsbergen and Antarctica.

He took his first steps in the polar regions as a student in 1992, participating in an international winter expedition to Antarctica’s Weddell Sea. Since then he has joined several research expeditions to remote places in the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans.

Jan feels at home on the sea due to his background in marine biology, and he is one of the expedition leaders on our historic schooner, Noorderlicht.

He lectures on natural history and biology, and is a confirmed polar literature fanatic.

  • Rinie van Meurs
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch

Rinie van Meurs has been an expedition leader since 1989, leading hundreds of expeditions all over the polar regions. The Arctic island of Spitsbergen, the largest in the Svalbard archipelago, is as familiar to him as his own back yard.

  • Florence Kuyper
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch

Florence is a world traveler with a passion for the polar regions, remote nature, deserts, history, and nomadic peoples.

  • Ali Liddle
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: British
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  • Sara Jenner
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: British
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  • Eduardo Rubio
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: Guatemalan
  • George Kennedy
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: Australian
  • Adam Burke
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: British
  • Hans Verdaat
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Marcel Paul
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Christian Engelke
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: German
  • Philipp Schaudy
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: Austrian
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  • Pippa Low
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: British
  • Claudio Ghiglione
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: Italian
  • Adam Turner
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: British
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  • Chris Long
  • Función: Expedition leader
  • Nacionalidad: New Zealander

Personal de actividad

  • Henrik Enckell
  • Función: Dive Team Leader & Advisor
  • Nacionalidad: 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
  • Función: Dive Team Leader and Advisor
  • Nacionalidad: British

Michael began diving in 1980, training with the Royal Navy in Portsmouth Harbour.

Capitanes

  • Arthur Yakovlev
  • Función: Captain
  • Nacionalidad: Russian

Arthur Yakovlev was born in Petrozavodsk, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Karelia, in northwestern Russia.

At the age of 15, he started training at the Maritime College in Petrozavodsk, where he graduated in 1999. At 18 he began his career as a seaman on a dry cargo vessel.

One year later, he was promoted as third officer on the same type of vessel, and later as second officer, working on various cargo vessels until 2007.

That same year, Arthur began work as a second officer on the passenger vessel Marina Cvetaeva, now Ortelius. As of 2008 he has worked for Oceanwide Expeditions, and in 2019 became a captain on Plancius.

Arthur never dreamed that most of his career would be spent in the polar waters, but he considers this his destiny and would not have it any other way.

He is married and has a son, and during vacation he enjoys spending most of his time with his family, while also traveling and enjoying nature.

  • Ernesto Barria
  • Función: Captain
  • Nacionalidad: Chilean

Ernesto Barria was born in Santiago, Chile, into a family with strong bonds to the sea: His father, grandfather, and several uncles all share a love of the ocean.

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  • Evgeny Levakov
  • Función: Captain
  • Nacionalidad: 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.

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  • Remmert Koster
  • Función: Captain
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Joachim Schiel
  • Función: Captain
  • Nacionalidad: German

Oficina

Sede central:
Teléfono: +31 (0)118 410 410
Fax: +31 (0)118 410 417
Correo electrónico: info@oceanwide-expeditions.com
Reservas en EE.UU. y Canadá:
Teléfono: +1 800 453 7245
Fax: +1 (0)281 749 8220
Correo electrónico: usa@oceanwide-expeditions.com
  • Florian J. Piper
  • Función: Director Sales | Arctic program
  • Nacionalidad: German
  • George Janes
  • Función: Senior Copywriter
  • Nacionalidad: British
  • Toto Vermue
  • Función: USA and Canada Sales Manager
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
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  • Stefan Pruimboom
  • Función: Staffing and Operations Advisor
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Maria del Pilar Fernandez
  • Función: International Sales Manager
  • Nacionalidad: Chilean
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  • Marie Rose Porreca
  • Función: Reservations, North-America
  • Nacionalidad: American
  • Nyrée Siereveld-Verstraete
  • Función: Account Assistant
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Kees Matthes
  • Función: Nautical Superintendent
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Adam Turner
  • Función: CXO - Head of Expedition Operations
  • Nacionalidad: British
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  • Teun van ‘t Verlaat
  • Función: Technical Manager
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Franklin Braeckman
  • Función: Antarctic Program Manager
  • Nacionalidad: Belgian
  • Marina Joglar
  • Función: Reservations, North-America
  • Nacionalidad: American
  • Elza Back
  • Función: Account Assistant
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Michael Frauendorfer
  • Función: Hotel Operations Manager
  • Nacionalidad: Austrian
  • Helen de Jong
  • Función: Sales Account Manager
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Ko de Korte
  • Función: Consultant
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
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  • Sytze Posthumus
  • Función: Financial Controller
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Grace Vidal
  • Función: Reservations, North-America
  • Nacionalidad: American
  • Bas Jumelet
  • Función: Assistant Hotel Operations Manager
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Loraine van Huizen
  • Función: Online Marketeer
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Karin Toornstra
  • Función: Reservations
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • John Yeh
  • Función: Sales Representative China & South Asia & Oceania
  • Nacionalidad: Chinese
  • Femke Wolfert
  • Función: Staffing Manager
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Danique van Burken
  • Función: Senior Marketing Manager
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Gabi Merten
  • Función: Reservations for the German speaking market
  • Nacionalidad: German
  • Sasha Rachkova
  • Función: Online Marketeer
  • Nacionalidad: Russian
  • Jornt de Meurichy
  • Función: E-commerce officer
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Dorine van Boekhout
  • Función: Reservations
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Piet Vink
  • Función: Managing Director
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Marissa Medrano
  • Función: Accounting
  • Nacionalidad: American
  • Majanda Fens
  • Función: Reservations Manager
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Alexandra den Dikken
  • Función: Senior Graphic Designer
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Andreas Diesing
  • Función: Key Account Manager for the German speaking countries
  • Nacionalidad: German
  • Sebastiaan Schijf
  • Función: CFO
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
  • Michel van Gessel
  • Función: Director
  • Nacionalidad: Dutch
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