Always Someone Interesting to Meet

Our connection to the world’s wild places through conservation and personal relationships in far-flung locations has deep roots. For many guests that’s a compelling reason to choose to explore the planet with us. But there’s more: things are often extra interesting aboard our ships.

For example, in Galápagos, we’ve recently signed an agreement with the National Park, formalizing our ships as platforms of opportunity for science in Galápagos, facilitating research and advancing the training of young local scientists. We’ve been doing this sort of thing worldwide for decades—helping researchers, like James Balog of the Extreme Ice Survey study glacier retreat, and scientists, like John Durban and Holly Fearnbach, conduct research on the health of whales in Antarctica. And through citizen science observations, our naturalists, undersea specialists, and often guests, contribute to science’s knowledge of whales, mantas, and the polar underseas.

This is a real boon for you—the prospect of not only exploring charismatic geographies, but also of meeting genuinely interesting people aboard our ships.