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
- Adam Turner
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
Adam was brought up in the countryside of Essex, England. He began sailing at the age of nine and by 12 was already working on the local river.
By the age of 16, he had a small fishing boat and was working on boatyards, taking tourists to see local seal colonies and helping out on the local lifeboat.
Adam later joined the British Armed Forces and was posted in Northern Ireland and elsewhere in the UK. He also served in Kenya as a boat operator. In 2002 Adam joined the police and spent several years on a specialist unit working across the UK with his search dog, Charley.
Since Adam was young, he dreamed of working in the Antarctic like his uncle, who had worked there in the late 1980s. In 2014 Adam left the police to work as a boating officer for the British Antarctic Survey at King Edward Point, South Georgia, where he spent just over a year.
Adam studied at Middlesex University and often gives lectures on history. In 2017 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society while working as a guide and consultant.
In 2020 Adam began working fulltime for Oceanwide Expeditions as their field operations manager. He holds a commercial masters certificate and instructs in several marine disciplines. Adam enjoys diving, climbing, kayaking, and other outdoor activities.
- Claudio Ghiglione
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Italian
Claudio was born in Italy in 1983. He is a nature photographer, expedition guide, and marine ecologist specializing in the polar regions.
- Hans Verdaat
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
Hans’s fascination for nature and traveling has been present throughout his life. From a young age, he has been an active birder traveling across Europe, studying coastal zone management in the Netherlands and in Norway.
- Philipp Schaudy
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Austrian
- Marcel Paul
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Ali Liddle
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Christian Engelke
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: German
- Chris Long
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: New Zealander
- Pippa Low
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Adam Burke
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Florence Kuyper
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Eduardo Rubio
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Guatemalan
- Rinie van Meurs
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
- George Kennedy
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Australian
- Sara Jenner
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Jan Belgers
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
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
- Remmert Koster
- Funktion: Captain
- Nationalität: Dutch
Remmert Koster was born in the Netherlands, and from a young age he was convinced he would become a captain.
After completing nautical college, he sailed general cargo ships for several years before switching to heavy-lift ships, transporting such loads as offshore platforms, Dutch Royal Navy vessels, submarines, parts for petrochemical plants, dredgers, cranes, and other such items.
Since 2016 he has captained passenger vessels, starting with two mega-yachts and later becoming a captain with Oceanwide Expeditions on its Polar Class 6 vessel, Hondius.
Remmert is married and lives with his wife and her daughter in an old farmhouse in north Holland. When he’s not busy renovating the house, he likes to cook, travel, and spend time with his family and friends.
- 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.
- Joachim Schiel
- Funktion: Captain
- Nationalität: 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.
- Ernesto Barria
- Funktion: Captain
- Nationalität: Chilean
- Evgeny Levakov
- Funktion: Captain
- Nationalität: Russian
- Arthur Yakovlev
- Funktion: Captain
- Nationalität: Russian
Büro
- Grace Vidal
- Funktion: Reservations, North-America
- Nationalität: American
- Marie Rose Porreca
- Funktion: Reservations, North-America
- Nationalität: American
- Ko de Korte
- Funktion: Consultant
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Toto Vermue
- Funktion: Sales Accountmanager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Sebastiaan Schijf
- Funktion: Financial Controller
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Kees Matthes
- Funktion: Nautical Superintendent
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Nyrée Siereveld-Verstraete
- Funktion: Account Assistant
- Nationalität: Dutch
- John Yeh
- Funktion: Sales Representative China & South Asia & Oceania
- Nationalität: Chinese
- Michel van Gessel
- Funktion: Director
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Gabi Merten
- Funktion: Reservations for the German speaking market
- Nationalität: German
- Alexandra den Dikken
- Funktion: Senior Graphic Designer
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Dorine van Boekhout
- Funktion: Reservations
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Franklin Braeckman
- Funktion: Antarctic Program Manager
- Nationalität: Belgian
- Danique van Burken
- Funktion: Senior Marketing Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Karin Toornstra
- Funktion: Reservations
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Erik Hageman
- Funktion: CFO
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Marissa Medrano
- Funktion: Accounting
- Nationalität: American
- Femke Wolfert
- Funktion: Staffing Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Piet Vink
- Funktion: Managing Director
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Elza Back
- Funktion: Account Assistant
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Marina Joglar
- Funktion: Reservations, North-America
- Nationalität: American
- Loraine van Huizen
- Funktion: Online Marketeer
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Teun van ‘t Verlaat
- Funktion: Technical Superintendent
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Stefan Pruimboom
- Funktion: Staffing and Operations Advisor
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Adam Turner
- Funktion: CXO - Head of Expedition Operations
- Nationalität: British
- Maria del Pilar Fernandez
- Funktion: International Sales Manager
- Nationalität: Chilean
- Florian J. Piper
- Funktion: Director Sales | Arctic program
- Nationalität: German
- George Janes
- Funktion: Senior Copywriter
- Nationalität: British
- Andreas Diesing
- Funktion: Key Account Manager for the German speaking countries
- Nationalität: German
- Bas Jumelet
- Funktion: Assistant Hotel Operations Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Sasha Rachkova
- Funktion: Online Marketeer
- Nationalität: Russian
- Majanda Fens
- Funktion: Reservations Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Michael Frauendorfer
- Funktion: Hotel Operations Manager
- Nationalität: Austrian