Undersea Discoveries

DISCOVER THE SELDOM-SEEN POLAR UNDERSEA

BECAUSE THE UNDERSEA IS VITAL TO YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF

Antarctica, we’ve committed the technology and personnel resources to offer what no other travel company in Antarctica does—an exploration of the vivid and surprising world beneath our ship.

During the voyage, an undersea specialist will don special polar

diving gear to explore and shoot video of the Antarctic marine environment and its otherworldly creatures. You’ll get to see this amazing world on TV screens in the warm comfort of the lounge, with our undersea specialist as your guide. You’ll see what lies beneath the ice and discover strange and wonderful lifeforms. In some cases, our specialists have photographed specimens not known to scientists. See the life lived on Antarctica’s ice, and the

marine life found deep beneath the surface.

“It was the actual anniversary date of Lars-Eric Lindblad’s first expedition to Antarctica in 1966, and we’d all had a champagne toast in the lounge in his honour . After dinner, a few people noticed the sky becoming pink, then orange…and before I knew it, I was on the stern watching the fieriest sunset ofmy life—at 11:00 p.m.—the entire sky flooded with reds, pinks, yellows, and oranges across the horizon, illuminating the peaks.

Even long-time naturalists like Pete Puleston and Bud Lehnhausen said they’d never seen a sunset like that in Antarctica.”

— AMY H., Guest aboard National Geographic Explorer