This man is the force behind the world's coolest small cruise ships in the Galapagos, Antarctica and more.
. Purpose-built for polar navigation, these sister ships have state-of-the-art capabilities designed to safely, thoughtfully and luxuriously navigate the White Continent year-round.For the christening of theSven recently returned to the Galápagos for his 50th visit—or maybe more . On the heels of the launch, we caught up with him to find out how he got started, the current state of travel and what’s on the horizon.
“We didn’t have a lot of capital in those days. So if I saw an opportunity to buy a ship, I’d go to the bank, I’d borrow money, I’d put personal guarantees on everything and then we had to work our asses off because we had to pay back our loans fairly quickly,” says Sven. “So we built a company based on older ships: We’d modify them for our purposes. They weren’t particularly luxurious, but they were suitable for what we wanted to do.
With Covid, we tried everything we could to keep things together in such a way that when it ended, everyone could come out the other side without having been destroyed by the process—from our personnel to the places that we visit. And I think we did a pretty good job of that.
right: expedition leader Gaby Bohorquez, Cindy Manning, Anahi Concari, Ixora Berdonces and Vanessa Gallo.“We’ve always been a company that’s a team—it’s not just me. That’s one thing I learned from my father. My father was too much of an island. He was this incredibly brilliant person, and everyone else was at a very different level, and I always felt that he paid a heavy price for that,” says Sven.
“Everybody and their monkey has decided to get into the expedition travel field, and it doesn’t amuse me at all. Because the unfortunate reality is that people completely underestimate how complicated it is. They’ve decided that there’s a demographic audience that’s interested, so they build a nice ship, call it ‘expedition’ and hire a few people to do this or the other. But they’re underestimating what you need in order to run expeditions,” says Sven.
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