Nuestro Equipo
Expedition staff
- Sara Jenner
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nacionalidad: British
For as long as Sara can remember, she has had a passion for travel and for finding the wildest and most remote places on Earth.
When she was only 10, she sold her favorite pink bicycle to start her travel fund.
Every birthday and Christmas, she added more to the kitty until finally, at age 18, she realized her dream of diving the Great Barrier Reef! At that moment, the travel addict was born.
Ever since, Sara has been traveling the globe in search of wild and remote places.
She has also spent many months volunteering on wildlife conservation projects to help some of our most iconic and endangered species.
Sara’s love of wildlife and the outdoors has taken her to all seven continents.
She has traveled extensively in the polar regions, including the Antarctic Peninsula, the Falklands, South Georgia, Spitsbergen, Greenland, Iceland, Baffin Island, and the Canadian High Arctic.
Back home in the UK, Sara used her knowledge to work as a polar specialist for several years, but in 2016 she joined Oceanwide Expeditions, trading life on land for a life at sea.
Sara is a keen wildlife photographer, and when she is not in the polar regions, she enjoys working as a photographic guide in Botswana, specifically the beautiful Chobe River and Okavango Delta.
- Philipp Schaudy
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nacionalidad: 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.
- Katja Riedel
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nacionalidad: German
Katja grew up in Germany, where she completed her Ph.D. in Atmospheric Chemistry.
- Jan Belgers
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Florence Kuyper
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Ali Liddle
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nacionalidad: British
- Pippa Low
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nacionalidad: British
- Rinie van Meurs
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Beau Pruneau
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nacionalidad: Canadian
- Martin Berg
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nacionalidad: Swedish
- Adam Turner
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nacionalidad: British
- Christian Engelke
- Function: Expedition leader
- Nacionalidad: German
Activity staff
- Henrik Enckell
- Function: 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
- Function: Dive Team Leader and Advisor
- Nacionalidad: British
Michael began diving in 1980, training with the Royal Navy in Portsmouth Harbour.
Captains
- Mika Erik Appel
- Function: Captain
- Nacionalidad: Finnish
Mika Erik Appel was born and raised in the town of Vaasa, Finland, where cold weather and ice was just part of daily life.
A master mariner, he holds a Bachelor of Marine Transportation degree from Aboa Mare Maritime Academy. He began his captaining career by tug towing and pushing barges in the North Sea and Baltic, later moving on to passenger vessels.
During his years in the Baltic, he gained young-ice navigation expertise. Arctic and Antarctic waters are both familiar to him, and he is an expert in multi-year ice navigation.
Prior to captaining expedition vessels, Mika spent five years as a nautical instructor and training manager in Subic Bay, Philippines. There he became an accredited IMO trainer and assessor.
Mika draws on more than 25 years of experience in passenger vessels and cruise ships, now focusing mainly on polar expedition work. His area of specialization is remote, ice-laden waters.
- Toni Salo
- Function: Captain
- Nacionalidad: 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.
- Alexander Schmidt
- Function: Captain
- Nacionalidad: German
Ali was born in Germany, where he studied geography but eventually decided to turn his passion for sailing into a profession. He pursued nautical studies in the Netherlands, specializing in traditional sailing ships as well as tall ships.
- Ernesto Barria
- Function: Captain
- Nacionalidad: Chilean
- Arthur Yakovlev
- Function: Captain
- Nacionalidad: Russian
- Evgeny Levakov
- Function: Captain
- Nacionalidad: Russian
- Remmert Koster
- Function: Captain
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
Office
- Ingrid van de Loo
- Function: Food & Beverage Manager
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Ko de Korte
- Function: Consultant
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Marie Rose Porreca
- Function: Reservations, North-America
- Nacionalidad: American
- Sietse Vonk
- Function: Purchase & logistic Manager
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Adam Turner
- Function: Field Operations Manager
- Nacionalidad: British
- Sebastiaan Schijf
- Function: Financial Controller
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Franklin Braeckman
- Function: Antarctic Program Manager
- Nacionalidad: Belgian
- Nyrée Siereveld-Verstraete
- Function: Account Assistant
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Geert Kroes
- Function: Art Director
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Loraine van Huizen
- Function: Online Marketeer
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Majanda Fens
- Function: Reservations Manager
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Alexandra den Dikken
- Function: Senior Graphic Designer
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Toto Vermue
- Function: Sales Accountmanager
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Florian J. Piper
- Function: Director Sales | Arctic program
- Nacionalidad: German
- Jeroen Blanken
- Function: Hotel Operations Manager
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Michel van Gessel
- Function: Director
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Marina Joglar
- Function: Reservations, North-America
- Nacionalidad: American
- Teun van ‘t Verlaat
- Function: Technical Superintendent
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Iris van Zalinge
- Function: Sales Accountmanager
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Andreas Diesing
- Function: Key Account Manager for the German speaking countries
- Nacionalidad: German
- Gabi Merten
- Function: Reservations for the German speaking market
- Nacionalidad: German
- Karin Toornstra
- Function: Reservations
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Ronald van Herwijnen
- Function: Technical Superintendent
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Danique van Burken
- Function: Senior Marketing Manager
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Grace Vidal
- Function: Reservations, North-America
- Nacionalidad: American
- Dorine van Boekhout
- Function: Reservations
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Elza Back
- Function: Account Assistant
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Erik Hageman
- Function: CFO
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Matt Cutts
- Function: Content Writer
- Nacionalidad: American
- Femke Wolfert
- Function: Staffing Manager
- Nacionalidad: Dutch
- Maria del Pilar Fernandez
- Function: International Sales Manager
- Nacionalidad: Chilean
- Piet Vink
- Function: Managing Director
- Nacionalidad: Dutch