DISCOVER THE UNDISCOVERED

AT THE HEART OF ONE OCEAN EXPEDITIONS lies the desire to explore and learn. As leaders in the exploration of the world’s most remote regions, we have an extensive and long-standing commitment to providing a platform for those helping to understand and preserve the extraordinary marine environments in which we travel. Through our educational programming, we are proud to integrate educators and researchers who share our mission to “discover the undiscovered,” aiming to build interest and respect for the oceans and the life they sustain. In August 2018, One Ocean Expeditions, in collaboration with The Royal Canadian Geographical Society, contributed to the discovery of the wreck of the Nova Zembla, a Scottish whaling ship that sank in 1902. This marked the second time the organizations have contributed to the successful discovery of an Arctic wreck, the rst being HMS Erebus, during the 2014 Victoria Strait Expedition. The search transpired after RCGS Fellows Dr. Matthew Ayre and Dr. Michael Moloney, from the University of Calgary’s Arctic Institute of North America, were able to provide credible evidence for the location of the vessel through their exhaustive archival research and detailed eldwork. Evidence of the wreck was discovered near Buchan Gulf while the duo travelled on our Classic Northwest Passage & Greenland voyage on Akademik Sergey Vavilov.

Guests onboard were part of history in the making as they received live updates on the discovery, were able to chat to Dr. Ayre and Dr. Moloney about the search, and practiced using the underwater live-view camera and sonar in the plunge pool. Our programming is dedicated to offering in-depth exploration of the unique destinations we visit with the help of experts in their eld. The Nova Zembla discovery will help shed light on the historical and political complexity of the whaling industry in the Arctic, as well as the social history of life onboard these ships.