Our Onboard Experts

Initially trained as a biologist Alan spent several years after university working in fish farming and learnt t...

Passion for the natural world and the creatures who inhabit it has led Alice on a range of incredible adventure...

Born in Salzburg/Austria Andrea has worked four years as Project Manager organizing events and incentive projec...

Brent joins the Expedition team after nearly two decades of exploring wild Alaska as a guide, naturalist and ca...

Born in Scotland, Brian graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in Geology. 

His first rol...

Cam was lucky enough to grow up with lots of family adventures tramping and sailing, which installed his passio...

Chantal was born in Suffolk very near the sea and now lives in Northumberland where her husband farms and when ...

Cheli is a seasoned veteran when it comes to exploring the rich, breathtaking nature and animal life of the eve...

Colin grew up on the west coast of Canada and developed a love for the sea at an early age, sailing and scuba d...

Colin is a freelance marine biologist and photographer, with a strong interest in underwater photography. Origi...

Conrad Weston is a Second Generation costarrican.  Conrad has been involved in ecotourism since 1986 in So...

Craig is from Glasgow, which he has called home for almost his entire life. However, he has taken every opportu...

Craig Ward is a marine professional; a dive instructor, zoologist and ship’s captain who holds a BSc from...

Damon’s personal aim in life is to combine his loves of nature and travel into a career, and experience a...

Daniel Stavert is a naturalist, historian and outdoor guide from the Blue Mountains, Australia. Working in Aust...

Dave grew up in the forests of central New York State in the USA, and developed an interest in the great outdoo...

Australian born & bred Dean has been employed in the Firefighting Service as a Senior Officer for over 33 y...

Born in Moscow, Russia, Dmitri studied biology at Moscow State University (MSU) where he completed his Ph.D. in...

Born and bred in Melbourne, Australia Dot has a love of the outdoors, adventure and travel. The past twenty yea...

Chris Edwards, a native of Scotland, graduated from the University of Glasgow. He then worked for the British A...

After undergraduate studies majoring in Botany, Merel completed her PhD in Ecology...

Susan was born and brought up in North East England. After obtaining her Bachelor of Science degree in Geology ...

Ted Creek has always been fascinated by wildlife and the water and studied marine biology and oceanography at t...

Emma (Emmarentia) Hansen was born and raised in the stunning Lowveld area of Mpumalanga, South Africa, very clo...

Ethan lives in Vancouver, Canada, where he spent much of his youth exploring the vastness of southern British C...

Gary served in the Royal Marines Commandos for 22years. Originally from Portsmouth...

Born and raised in leafy Hertfordshire, Genna has been swapping the fields and woods of England for more exotic...

Gerard Baker has 25 years of experience in polar regions, having worked on several Antarctic research stations ...

Better known as Snowy, Graeme is originally from Adelaide, South Australia, and has a professional background i...

Guy Esparon was born in the Seychelles and migrated to Australia in 1971, where he spent 30 years living betwee...

For the past twelve years Hannah has divided her time between working on expedition cruise ships as a wildlife ...

Helen joins us from Queenstown, nestled in the heart of the Southern Alps of New Zealand.  Her family has ...

Ian Bullock is a British biologist who lives in St Davids, Pembrokeshire, on the south-western seaboard of Wale...

Iain was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and grew up in a small village in neighbouring Fife. He now lives in Linco...

Ignacio Marino – or Nacho - was born in Ushuaia, the capital city of Tierra Del Fuego Antartida e Islas D...

Jake has always loved life on the water; he began driving boats when he was 5, landed his first job at a marina...

James is a British Conservation Biologist who was bitten by the travel bug whilst carrying out research on cora...

Jamie is a marine ecologist and expedition leader, who works and spends as much time as possible in earth&rsquo...

A Nova Scotian “Bluenose”, Jane Sproull Thomson grew up by the sea, learning to swim perforce when ...

Jane was born and raised in Australia. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Scienc...

Jeff Reynolds is a marine biologist out of Victoria British Columbia, where he also studied. Jeff began his car...

John Kernan has been working in the expedition cruise industry for the past 25 years as a lecturer, naturalist,...

John’s career spans 40 years in the photographic industry. Originally trained as a commercial photographe...

Joselyn’s extensive travels to all seven continents and the long list of var...

Julia grew up in the city of Bristol and moved to London where she spent many years working as a financial cont...

Karen has spent the last 15 years working on bird conservation projects, including working as the Lead Project ...

Born on the west coast of Sweden, travel and adventure has always been the compass of Karin’s life. Her i...

Kevin Morgan is a naturalist with a passion for wildlife and a master’s degree in oceanography, who has w...

Kevin served in the Royal Marines for 12 years which took him all over the world working in some of the most ar...

Kristine is a true example of how it is never too late to find the job of your life. She was born and raised on...

From New Zealand, Kristy grew up on a dairy farm which is where her love of animals and the outdoors was born. ...

Lea McQuillan is a marine biologist who has a keen interest in plants, birds and m...

Malcolm Pringle is a lifelong ornithologist, wildlife enthusiast and an accomplished dingy and keelboat sailor ...

Mike was born in South London, and from an early age wanted to join the Military, at 16 Mike joined the Royal M...

An all round naturalist and a photographer since his teens, Mick’s particular passion is for sea birds an...

Molly has held a deep love and fascination for the ocean from a very young age, and her lifelong dream to work ...

Nicola began her career on expedition ships back in 2009, since then she has compl...

Nicola was born in Nottingham, England, her love of the outdoors and adventure began on the countryside home sh...

Coming from South Africa, Pam is a marine scientist, PADI dive instructor, zodiac skipper and sailor, and has w...

Phanor H Montoya-Maya is a marine biologist, diving instructor and Coral guru hailing from Colombia. His love f...

Living in the Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand, he has had a long association with the ocean. Phil has worked ...

Phoebe Olsen grew up in a small fishing village on the rugged south coast of Ireland. There she was never far f...

Pierre is an all round naturalist who trained as an oceanographer and marine biologist and has more than forty ...

Pierre was born in Ghent Belgium and at the age of seven moved to Kinshasa, Zaïre, with his family. After ...

A native of Scotland, Professor James Floyd, has recently retired as District Geologist after 36 years with the...

Ragnar is a native of Iceland. He graduated from the University of Iceland in 1981 with Icelandic studies as hi...

Becky is a conservation biologist who was born in the UK but spent her childhood on the move. She grew up in th...

Reba has lived and worked abroad for the past 22 years, and speaks French, Italian and Spanish fluently. Having...

Wildly passionate about the living world, Sam is an avid birdwatcher, wildlife photographer, scuba diver, ...

Scott was brought up in a small village in the Highlands of Scotland beside Loch Ness. This is where he develop...

Seb Coulthard was born in London, raised in Quito, Ecuador, and completed his higher education in England. He i...

Simon shares the same family name as the illustrious 18th century explorer, Captain James Cook. In addition to ...

Steve grew up in Tawa, a small town about 20 minutes from Wellington city. During this time he was lucky enough...

Steve enlisted in the Royal New Zealand Navy when he was just 16 years old and since has spent most of his life...

Sue Flood is a professional and award-winning wildlife and travel photographer.  Sue has been working in t...

Sue has been creating wildlife, landscape and travel photos for 20+ years, traveling to over 90 countries on al...

Living in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand when not working on cruise ships Tina runs a property maintenance...

A British naturalist who has years of experience working in conservation, ciology and guiding in some of the wo...

Tom is a self-confessed nature geek. His passion was sparked from an early age by being read Gerald Durrell sto...

Tony has spent many years living and travelling through the length and breadth of Europe, in the course of an e...

Wendy trained as a classical ballet dancer and teacher at the University of Cape Town. After dancing profession...