Die freundlichen und hilfsbereiten Mitarbeiter unserer Verkaufs- und Reservierungsabteilung stehen Ihnen zur Verfügung. Sie beantworten Ihnen alle relevanten Fragen zu Ihrer Reise, dem Reiseziel und den Oceanwide Expeditions-Schiffen. Sie alle waren auf einer oder mehreren Expeditionsreisen in der Arktis und Antarktis und haben die wunderbaren Polarregionen kennengelernt. Bereits seit Jahren arbeiten sie mit großer Begesiterung für Oceanwide Expeditions.
Unserer Mitarbeiter
Expedition staff
- Claudio Ghiglione
- Function: 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.
Interested in science and nature since he was young, Claudio has a bachelor’s degree in marine environmental science, a master’s degree in marine science, and a PhD in earth, environmental, and polar sciences.
For several years he worked as a polar researcher, focusing mainly on the South Pole. His objective was to analyze and evaluate information used for ecological modeling and possible scenarios related to global warming. During the academic career, he actively takes part in scientific expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica.
In 2017 he started working as a full-time Oceanwide guide. Claudio uses his photos to tell stories and draw attention to animals and the environment. In 2019 he published a book entitled Polar Lights.
- Florence Kuyper
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
Florence is a world traveler with a passion for the polar regions, remote nature, deserts, history, and nomadic peoples.
- Adam Turner
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
Since Adam was young, he dreamed of working in the Antarctic like his uncle, who had worked there in the late 1980s.
- Ali Liddle
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Marcel Paul
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Philipp Schaudy
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Austrian
- Hans Verdaat
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Rinie van Meurs
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Christian Engelke
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: German
- Sara Jenner
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Jan Belgers
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Pippa Low
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: British
- Eduardo Rubio
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nationalität: Guatemalan
Activity staff
- Henrik Enckell
- Function: 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
- Function: Dive Team Leader and Advisor
- Nationalität: British
Michael began diving in 1980, training with the Royal Navy in Portsmouth Harbour.
Captains
- Joachim Schiel
- Function: 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.
- Toni Salo
- Function: 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.
- Arthur Yakovlev
- Function: Captain
- Nationalität: Russian
Arthur Yakovlev was born in Petrozavodsk, the capital and largest city of the Republic of Karelia, in northwestern Russia.
- Evgeny Levakov
- Function: Captain
- Nationalität: Russian
- Ernesto Barria
- Function: Captain
- Nationalität: Chilean
- Remmert Koster
- Function: Captain
- Nationalität: Dutch
Office
- Marie Rose Porreca
- Function: Reservations, North-America
- Nationalität: American
- Dorine van Boekhout
- Function: Reservations
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Grace Vidal
- Function: Reservations, North-America
- Nationalität: American
- Toto Vermue
- Function: Sales Accountmanager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Gabi Merten
- Function: Reservations for the German speaking market
- Nationalität: German
- Maria del Pilar Fernandez
- Function: International Sales Manager
- Nationalität: Chilean
- Piet Vink
- Function: Managing Director
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Loraine van Huizen
- Function: Online Marketeer
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Florian J. Piper
- Function: Director Sales | Arctic program
- Nationalität: German
- Erik Hageman
- Function: CFO
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Ko de Korte
- Function: Consultant
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Marina Joglar
- Function: Reservations, North-America
- Nationalität: American
- Franklin Braeckman
- Function: Antarctic Program Manager
- Nationalität: Belgian
- Sebastiaan Schijf
- Function: Financial Controller
- Nationalität: Dutch
- John Yeh
- Function: Sales Representative China & South Asia & Oceania
- Nationalität: Chinese
- Andreas Diesing
- Function: Key Account Manager for the German speaking countries
- Nationalität: German
- Elza Back
- Function: Account Assistant
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Teun van ‘t Verlaat
- Function: Technical Superintendent
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Karin Toornstra
- Function: Reservations
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Adam Turner
- Function: CXO - Head of Expedition Operations
- Nationalität: British
- Nyrée Siereveld-Verstraete
- Function: Account Assistant
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Stefan Pruimboom
- Function: Staffing and Operations Advisor
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Michel van Gessel
- Function: Director
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Alexandra den Dikken
- Function: Senior Graphic Designer
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Femke Wolfert
- Function: Staffing Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Kees Matthes
- Function: Nautical Superintendent
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Danique van Burken
- Function: Senior Marketing Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch
- Majanda Fens
- Function: Reservations Manager
- Nationalität: Dutch