Ons team

Oceanwide staff

De poolgebieden zijn wat we doen. Van onze deskundige expeditiegidsen tot onze onberispelijke bemanning en ons veelzijdige kantoorpersoneel, het OEX-team is er helemaal op gericht om u de grootst mogelijke ervaring van de Noordpool, Antarctica en het sub-Antarctische gebied te geven. Doorgewinterde passagiers van onze eigen epische reizen, brengen we niet alleen een liefde voor de exotische poolwereld met ons mee, maar ook een gecombineerde rijkdom aan expertise die ongeëvenaard is door welke andere pooltouroperator dan ook. Ga met ons mee op een van onze avontuurlijke reizen en laat ons met je delen wat er allemaal te zien, te doen en te ontdekken valt in de meest afgelegen grenzen van de aarde.

Expeditie personeel

  • Hans Verdaat
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: Dutch

Hans his fascination for nature and traveling has been present all of his life. From a young age on he has been a birder and fascination with the polar regions caught him during one of his birding travels to the North of Norway.

After his study Coastal Zone Management he started working on the Dutch island Texel as a field researcher for the marine research institute of Wageningen University. In his research he specialises in seabirds and marine mammals.

Since 2004 he has participated in scientific research projects in the Antarctica, Caribbean, West-Africa, Spitsbergen and European waters. He has always been fascinated with the polar regions and has participated in several scientific expeditions both to the Arctic and Antarctic.

In 1999 he started working as a (birding) guide. The last years he has combined his research job with guiding & expedition leading for Oceanwide Expeditions.

In his free time Hans is a keen nature photographer and an active member of the team supporting the international development of the citizens science platform Observation.org

  • Chris Long
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: 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.

  • Philipp Schaudy
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: Austrian

Philipp Schaudy holds a Master’s Degree in Physical Geography and has studied in Austria, Iceland, and Svalbard. A restless traveler, adventurer, and alpinist, he’s always loved the outdoors.

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  • Florence Kuyper
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
  • Pippa Low
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: British
  • Marcel Paul
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
  • Adam Burke
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: British
  • Claudio Ghiglione
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: Italian
  • Rinie van Meurs
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
  • George Kennedy
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: Australian
  • Eduardo Rubio
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: Guatemalan
  • Ali Liddle
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: British
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  • Sara Jenner
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: British
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  • Adam Turner
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: British
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  • Jan Belgers
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
  • Christian Engelke
  • Functie: Expedition leader
  • Nationaliteit: German

Activiteit personeel

  • Henrik Enckell
  • Functie: Dive Team Leader & Advisor
  • Nationaliteit: 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
  • Functie: Dive Team Leader and Advisor
  • Nationaliteit: British

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

Kapiteins

  • Ernesto Barria
  • Functie: Captain
  • Nationaliteit: 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.

A beach guard by the age of 16, Ernesto’s favorite sport when he was young was swimming. When he finished high school, he moved to Puerto Montt, one of the most important ports in Chile. There he started his studies to become a merchant marine officer.

By his graduation in 1991, he’d already begun to sail on different vessels around Puerto Montt.

Ernesto became first officer of Antarctic Dream in 2005, beginning by navigating in Antarctica and later the Arctic. In 2011 he obtained the rank of captain, and in 2015 he was chosen as the best officer of the Chilean merchant navy.

Ernesto became a captain for Oceanwide Expeditions on Ortelius in 2013.

When he’s not working, Ernesto loves to travel around Chile with his family. He enjoys scuba diving, swimming, cycling, and photography, which has become his favorite hobby.

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  • Evgeny Levakov
  • Functie: Captain
  • Nationaliteit: 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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  • Joachim Schiel
  • Functie: Captain
  • Nationaliteit: German

Born near the German city of Cologne, Joachim Schiel grew up some distance from the coast. His first contact with vessels came from the yearly sailing trips he made with a youth group on the Baltic.

  • Arthur Yakovlev
  • Functie: Captain
  • Nationaliteit: Russian
  • Remmert Koster
  • Functie: Captain
  • Nationaliteit: Dutch

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  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
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  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
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  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
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  • Functie: CXO - Head of Expedition Operations
  • Nationaliteit: British
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  • Functie: Managing Director
  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
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  • Nationaliteit: German
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  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
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  • Nationaliteit: Austrian
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  • Nationaliteit: American
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  • Functie: Director Sales | Arctic program
  • Nationaliteit: German
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  • Functie: Senior Marketing Manager
  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
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  • Functie: Staffing and Operations Advisor
  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
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  • Functie: International Sales Manager
  • Nationaliteit: Chilean
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  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
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  • Functie: Antarctic Program Manager
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  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
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  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
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  • Functie: Staffing Manager
  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
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  • Functie: Director
  • Nationaliteit: Dutch
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