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.
- 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.
- Florence Kuyper
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
Florence is a world traveler with a passion for the polar regions, remote nature, deserts, history, and nomadic peoples.
- Adam Burke
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Jan Belgers
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Christian Engelke
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: German
- Sara Jenner
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Claudio Ghiglione
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Italian
- Adam Turner
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Eduardo Rubio
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Guatemalan
- Pippa Low
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Philipp Schaudy
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Austrian
- George Kennedy
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Australian
- Chris Long
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: New Zealander
- Ali Liddle
- Funktion: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Rinie van Meurs
- 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
- 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.
After finishing school, serving in the military, and working a few different jobs, he started an apprenticeship in boat building. It was not long, however, before he realized he would rather work on vessels at sea than in the shipyard.
So in 1998, he started his sailing career on tall ships. Over the following years, he sailed during the summer and attended nautical college in Enkhuizen during the winter. This led to sailing on many different vessels all over the world before he became a captain in 2006.
He first sailed to Svalbard in 2009 and instantly fell in love with the Arctic, preferring to sail in the far north ever since. He has been on Rembrandt van Rijn since 2017, making voyages in Northern Norway, Svalbard, and East Greenland.
When Joachim is not sailing the polar regions, he likes to go hiking and diving in the warmer areas of the world.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ernesto Barria
- Funktion: Captain
- Nationalität: Chilean
- Evgeny Levakov
- Funktion: Captain
- Nationalität: Russian
- Toni Salo
- Funktion: Captain
- Nationalität: Finnish
Büro
- Bas Jumelet
- Funktion: Assistant Hotel Operations Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Femke Wolfert
- Funktion: Staffing Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Alexandra den Dikken
- Funktion: Senior Graphic Designer
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Gabi Merten
- Funktion: Reservations for the German speaking market
- Nationalität: German
- Florian J. Piper
- Funktion: Director Sales | Arctic program
- Nationalität: German
- Adam Turner
- Funktion: CXO - Head of Expedition Operations
- Nationalität: British
- Marissa Medrano
- Funktion: Accounting
- Nationalität: American
- Kees Matthes
- Funktion: Nautical Superintendent
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Franklin Braeckman
- Funktion: Antarctic Program Manager
- Nationalität: Belgian
- Marina Joglar
- Funktion: Reservations, North-America
- Nationalität: American
- Sasha Rachkova
- Funktion: Online Marketeer
- Nationalität: Russian
- Michael Frauendorfer
- Funktion: Hotel Operations Manager
- Nationalität: Austrian
- Erik Hageman
- Funktion: CFO
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Nyrée Siereveld-Verstraete
- Funktion: Account Assistant
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Grace Vidal
- Funktion: Reservations, North-America
- Nationalität: American
- Elza Back
- Funktion: Account Assistant
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Teun van ‘t Verlaat
- Funktion: Technical Superintendent
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Dorine van Boekhout
- Funktion: Reservations
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Ko de Korte
- Funktion: Consultant
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Marie Rose Porreca
- Funktion: Reservations, North-America
- Nationalität: American
- Loraine van Huizen
- Funktion: Online Marketeer
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Danique van Burken
- Funktion: Senior Marketing Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Stefan Pruimboom
- Funktion: Staffing and Operations Advisor
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Maria del Pilar Fernandez
- Funktion: International Sales Manager
- Nationalität: Chilean
- George Janes
- Funktion: Senior Copywriter
- Nationalität: British
- Karin Toornstra
- Funktion: Reservations
- Nationalität: Dutch
- John Yeh
- Funktion: Sales Representative China & South Asia & Oceania
- Nationalität: Chinese
- Toto Vermue
- Funktion: Sales Accountmanager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Michel van Gessel
- Funktion: Director
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Sebastiaan Schijf
- Funktion: Financial Controller
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Majanda Fens
- Funktion: Reservations Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Andreas Diesing
- Funktion: Key Account Manager for the German speaking countries
- Nationalität: German
- Piet Vink
- Funktion: Managing Director
- Nationalität: Dutch