Oceanwide Expeditions has taken an thrilling new step in enhancing its present array of onboard navigation tools on its expedition vessels. Following trials, IcySea is now getting used on board every ship within the firm’s expedition fleet. This software program gives near-real-time ice info, excellent for avoiding pointless ice navigation and serving to to forestall delays and detours to each day itineraries. The addition of IcySea additionally straight helps Oceanwide Expeditions in its aim of decreasing gas consumption in keeping with a broader ESG technique.
Additional complementing professional vessel crews
Oceanwide Expeditions’ vessel crews are professional mariners and among the many greatest relating to safely navigating the icy edges of the world, the place circumstances can change rapidly and the ability of nature may be awe-inspiring. Together with their information of the polar areas, Oceanwide’s vessels are geared up with refined technical tools that makes navigating in distant, usually poorly charted areas each secure and extra environment friendly.
Piet Vink, Managing Director, Oceanwide Expeditions – “IcySea enhances each our present arsenal of navigation instruments and programs, in addition to the information and experience of our captains, bridge officers, and vessel crews. It has confirmed to be a helpful device for voyage planning within the medium- and short-term, and for Arctic and Antarctic navigation. With it, our vessels can reply to rising ice experiences, and proceed to ship distinctive experiences for our friends within the face of dynamic climate & atmospheric circumstances.“
A greater polar expertise for friends
This enhanced skill to make the most of near-real-time sea ice info is a perfect device for all expedition cruises, however particularly helpful for particular itineraries that plunge into the Weddell Sea, chase the Arctic pack ice, or enterprise far under the Antarctic Circle in the hunt for the Southern Lights. Visitors will profit from smoother voyages with fewer disruptions as a consequence of ice circumstances, in addition to a greater diversity of other touchdown websites and tour areas, permitting itineraries to be adjusted in real-time.
With IcySea, Oceanwide Expeditions is extra environment friendly, extra resilient, and higher ready to take clients to the very edges of the map – and right into a polar journey that may ceaselessly change the way in which they view the world.
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