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Guest speakers will accompany many of our tours and add to your enjoyment of the areas you are visiting through a series of talks and informal discussions on board. Either as a specialist on the area or in a specific field, their onboard talks will bring an added dimension to the tour, complementing the guides who will share their local knowledge with you during your excursions. With backgrounds in areas such as music, art history, maritime history and archaeology, they will truly bring to life the sites and experiences of your journey. Whether during an informed evening lecture on the life of Mozart, whilst accompanying you ashore to the ruins of Ephesus, or standing on deck watching a calving glacier, their knowledge will help you to make the most of your journey.

Our expedition cruises are led by a highly experienced expedition team, including guest speakers. To fully appreciate many of the diverse and remote regions that are visited on our expedition cruises, the staff onboard are one of the most important aspects of the trip and help you understand all that you see. For each voyage, we carefully select the best experts in their field who will lead you every step of the way with their knowledge and enthusiasm. These may include ornithologists, naturalists, marine biologists as well as Zodiac drivers and expedition leaders. Through onboard briefings, informal presentations, whilst accompanying you ashore and on Zodiac excursions, they will share their in-depth knowledge of the wildlife, landscape and natural and cultural history of the region.

On the majority of our small ship and river cruises you will be joined by a Cruise Director and you will be accompanied by one of our experienced Tour Managers when undertaking one of our escorted land tours. Our Cruise Directors and Tour Managers have many years of experience and are in daily contact with our London office to ensure the smooth operation of your holiday. The daily programme is in their capable hands and whenever possible they will host daily briefings to provide you with information on the next day’s activities. 

  • Alan Hardwick

    Alan Hardwick

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

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  • Alice Forrest

    Alice Forrest

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

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  • Andrea Machacek

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

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  • Brent Pikolas

    Brent Pikolas

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

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  • Brian Seenan

    Brian Seenan

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

    His first rol...

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  • Cameron Walker

    Cameron Walker

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

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  • Chantal Cookson

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

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  • Cheli Larsen

    Cheli Larsen

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

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  • Colin Baird

    Colin Baird

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

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  • Colin Munro

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

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  • Conrad Weston Hernandez

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

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  • Craig Morton

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

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  • Craig Ward

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

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  • Damon Ramsey

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

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  • Daniel Stavert

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

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  • David Riordan

    David Riordan

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

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  • Dean Opie

    Dean Opie

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

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  • Dmitri Banin

    Dmitri Banin

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

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  • Dorothy Robertson

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

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  • Dr Chris Edwards

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

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  • Dr Merel Dalebout

    Merel Dalebout

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

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  • Dr Susan Currie

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

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  • Edward Creek

    Edward Creek

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

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  • Emmarentia Hansen

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

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  • Ethan Brown

    Ethan Brown

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

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  • Gary Pearcey

    Gary Pearcey

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

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  • Genna Roland

    Genevieve Roland

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

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  • Gerard Baker

    Gerard Baker

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

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  • Graeme Snow

    Graeme Snow

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

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  • Guy Esparon

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

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  • Hannah Lawson

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

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  • Helen Ahern

    Helen Ahern

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

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  • Ian Bullock

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

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  • Ian Pringle

    Ian Pringle

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

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  • Ignacio Marino

    Ignacio Marino

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

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  • Jake Morrison

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

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  • James McClelland

    James McClelland

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

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  • Jamie Watts

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

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  • Jane Thomson

    Jane Thomson

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

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  • Jane Wilson

    Jane Wilson

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

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  • Jeff Reynolds

    Jeff Reynolds

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

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  • John Kernan

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

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  • John Rodsted

    John Rodsted

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

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  • Joselyn Fenstermacher

    Joselyn Fenstermacher

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

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  • Julia Benson

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

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  • Karen Velas

    Karen Velas

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

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  • Karin Lundstrom

    Karin Lundstrom

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

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  • Kevin Morgan

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

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  • Kevin Treacher

    Kevin Treacher

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

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  • Kristine Hannon

    Kristine Hannon

    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...

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  • Kristy King

    Kirsty King

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

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  • Lea McQuillan

    Lea McQuillan

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

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  • Malcolm Pringle

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

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  • Michael Bowen

    Micheal Bowen

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

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  • Michael Brown

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

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  • Molly Anthony

    Molly Anthony

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

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  • Nicola Hewson

    Nicola Hewson

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

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  • Nicola Kulesza

    Nicola Kuleska

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

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  • Pamela Le Noury

    Pam Le Noury

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

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  • Phanor H Montoya-Maya

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

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  • Phil Todd

    Phil Todd

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

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  • Phoebe Olsen

    Phoebe Olsen

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

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  • Pierre Malan

    PIerre Malan

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

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  • Pierre Thomas

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

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  • Professor James Floyd

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

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  • Ragnar Hauksson

    Ragnar Hauksson

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

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  • Rebecca Hodgkiss

    Rebecca Hodgkiss

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

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  • Rebecca Minett

    Rebecca Minett

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

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  • Samuel Riley

    Samuel Riley

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

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  • Scott Thompson

    Scott Thompson

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

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  • Seb Coulthard

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

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  • Simon Cook

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

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  • Steve Todd

    Steve Todd

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

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  • Steve Traynor

    Steve Traynor

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

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  • Sue Flood

    Sue Flood

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

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  • Sue Forbes

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

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  • Tina Todd

    Tina Todd

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

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  • Tom Collier

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

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  • Tom Hiney

    Thomas Hiney

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

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  • Tony Crocker

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

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  • Wendy Malan

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

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