Tag: Antarctic Cruise

• Tuesday, November 30th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Thursday, D day for cruise Ultramarine and its delayed departure from Ushuaia on an Antarctic expedition

  

  Expedition cruise Ultramarine must remain in total confinement at the port of Ushuaia until next Thursday, following nine positive PCR tests among the 173 strong crew. No person is allowed on board or to disembark although water and supplies have been guaranteed, as well as all the necessary health support

• Wednesday, November 3rd 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  “Le Commandant Charcot” reopens Antarctic cruise season from Punta Arenas

  

  On Sunday Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile saw the departure of the first cruise vessel to Antarctica under strict sanitary and safety conditions. The first Antarctic cruise since the start of the pandemic was implemented by what local authorities denominate the sanitary “green bubble”.

• Wednesday, October 20th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  All ready for the Antarctic cruise season to begin in Ushuaia

  

  Atlas Ocean Voyages has given further details of how they are planning to operate their Antarctic cruises this coming 2021/2022 season from Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego province.

• Tuesday, April 21st 2020 - 13:36 UTC

  “Greg Mortimer” crew members and medical chief officer demand repatriation: “we also have a home country”

  

  The last cruise of “Greg Mortimer” when it left Ushuaia on March 15th was an invitation to disaster, and now “we are asking for a humanitarian corridor to take us, as they did with passengers, to our home countries”, said Mauricio Usme, chief medical officer on board the Aurora Expeditions vessel.

• Monday, March 16th 2020 - 10:40 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego rushes 400 tourists to Buenos Aires from an Antarctic cruise

  

  The Argentine Tierra del Fuego province government rushed some 400 passengers from a cruise vessel, by air, to Buenos Aires before the implementation of a coronavirus fourteen-day quarantine which becomes effective this Monday. The Norwegian flagged vessel Midnatsol arrived on Saturday to Ushuaia from Antarctica.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 07:01 UTC

  MS Roald Amundsen makes history as it reaches the ice edge at 70º south

  

  Cruise vessel Roald Amundsen has been involved in a history-making event as it has travelled the furthest south of any Hurtigruten company ship in the expedition cruise line's 127 years of business, the company said, in a statement.