COURTESY Quark Expeditions: SEATTLE, November 2, 2022 – Quark Expeditions, the worldwide Chief in Polar Adventures, launched into its first voyage of the Antarctic 2022-23 season on November 1 with the 11-day “Antarctic Explorer: Discovering the seventh Continent” voyage. Friends on this much-awaited polar journey sailed from Ushuaia, Argentina, on Quark Expeditions’ game-changing new ship, Ultramarine.
“Our Expedition Group is particularly excited to welcome visitors again to the Antarctic area,” stated Wendy Batchelor, Vice-president of Advertising and marketing for Quark Expeditions. “Our spectacular assortment of Antarctic journeys affords one thing for each sort of traveler, who additionally get to get pleasure from very good onboard facilities on the technologically-advanced Ultramarine.”
Quark Expeditions affords visitors the biggest portfolio of off-ship journey choices within the Polar Areas, starting from Alpine Heli trekking and Unique Heli Touchdown to tenting and Zodiac cruising. “Equally interesting, our visitors get to do all of it with essentially the most seasoned expedition crew within the business, a few of whom have 20-plus years of expertise,” says Batchelor.
Quark Expeditions’ Antarctic 2022-23 itineraries will go to quite a few distant locations, such because the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia, the Falkland Islands, the South Shetland Islands and the Lemaire Channel, to say a number of. Friends are ready to decide on itineraries that meet their particular pursuits, reminiscent of penguin safaris, visits to the historic Falkland Islands, and voyages that cross the Antarctic Circle. “And we additionally provide specific voyages that allow time-strapped visitors to fly over the 800-kilometer Drake Passage,” says Batchelor.
Friends who ebook voyages within the Antarctic 22-23 season are additionally lined by the Quark Safety Promise, which is essentially the most versatile reserving coverage within the polar business.
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About Quark Expeditions: Specializing completely in expeditions to Antarctica and the Arctic, Quark Expeditions® has been the main innovator of polar journey because the firm took the primary group of client vacationers to the North Pole in 1991. Quark Expeditions has been innovating ever since. With a various fleet of specially-equipped small expedition vessels and icebreakers—a few of them geared up with helicopters—Quark Expeditions delivers deeply immersive polar experiences—and is ready to take visitors deeper into the Polar Areas than anybody else. Led by passionate and seasoned expedition groups, together with scientists, wildlife consultants and researchers, Quark Expeditions affords an onboard program that enriches the passenger expertise.
About Ultramarine: The technologically-advanced Ultramarine, the most recent addition to the Quark Expeditions fleet, is a game-changer in polar exploration. Outfitted with two twin-engine Airbus 145 helicopters, 20 quick-launching Zodiacs and the biggest portfolio of off-ship journey choices within the business, Ultramarine adjustments the way in which visitors discover the Polar Areas. Different options embrace a spa, sauna with floor-to-ceiling home windows, health centre, yoga house, spacious rooms and two eating places plus a lounge and presentation theatre. Ultramarine has been designed with superior sustainability techniques that assist protect the pristine Polar Areas for the subsequent era of explorers. Ultramarine has an Ice Class ranking of 1A+ and Polar Class ranking of PC6, which contribute to the vessel’s superior requirements of security commonplace. The ship’s progressive sustainability options, which assist scale back its environmental footprint, embrace a micro auto gasification system (MAGS), which is able to changing onboard waste into vitality, eliminating the necessity for the transportation of waste.
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