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Tools for Exploration

Tools for Exploration

A Tool Kit Designed for Exploration

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Lindblad Expeditions & National Geographic: Partners in Exploration
As passionate explorers, Lindblad Expeditions approaches the wild places in the world with an entire tool kit designed for exploration. Our goal is not to show you a place off in the distance but to truly explore it up close and in depth. In order to accomplish this, we’ve cultivated the use of some highly specialized instruments. From bow cams or hydrophones that bring to life the sights and sounds beneath the sea, to kayaks that allow us to silently explore a cove or inlet under our own power, to Undersea Specialists who dive in remote locations like Antarctica and Arctic Norway, these tools allow us to go further and get closer to nature’s wonders.  Read more

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Lindblad Expeditions Hallmark: Our Expedition Staff
Aboard our ships you will travel with Naturalists, Historians, Photographers, Undersea Specialists, Video Chroniclers, Expedition Leaders and many other shipboard personnel. Unequivocally, they form the lifeblood of our operation. And we believe that the caliber of our staff puts us in a league of our own: Ratio – it’s important to us that each of our guests has the ability to interact with our Expedition Team. Read more

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Kayaks: A Lindblad Expeditions Essential
One of the best means for personal exploration in the areas we travel is via kayak. Therefore, we’ve outfitted all of our ships with a fleet of them — not just a symbolic kayak or two, but enough for everyone to get out and explore on their own. There is something very special about being alone, or with a partner in our double kayaks, paddling along a remote coastline, listening to, for instance, the sound of a nearby waterfall and watching a bear forage for food as an eagle soars overhead. Read more

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Video Chronicle
Another vital position to our Expedition Staff: a Video Chronicler — a modern version of the early Chroniclers who accompanied every exploratory mission throughout history. With a state-of-the-art workstation and digital video camera, our Chronicler professionally edits and produces a video of the most exciting elements of your voyage. Read more

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Undersea Specialist
In 2000, we made a firm commitment to explore and highlight the undersea like we’ve never done before. In doing so, we created the undersea Specialist position, whose primary job is to reveal the undersearealm and make it an integral aspect of the expedition experience. To accomplish this goal, we’ve equipped our Specialists with an arsenal of tools: a video microscope, bow cam, underwater cameras, hydrophones, and more.
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Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) – National Geographic Endeavour

This sophisticated underwater tool is, essentially, an underwater video camera framed in a metal cage with propulsion that is tethered to and “piloted” from the surface while the camera “flies” through the water. An ROV can be deployed where you might not want to send a diver: under unstable icebergs, or to many hundreds of feet of depth. Not only does it go to depths much beyond divers (it is rated to 500 ft.) but it can stay there indefinitely, whereas a diver’s bottom-time becomes shorter the deeper they go. Read more

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A View Beneath the Surface – Digital Video Cameras
Our high-quality, digital video cameras use a state-of-the-art underwater housing and lighting system. They allow our Undersea Specialist to record images of the undersea, such as reef fish, sea lions or even shipwrecks. This footage can then be shown and interpreted in the ship’s lounge. To enhance our presentations, we have also installed a computer system that allows for non-linear digital video editing.
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High-Tech “Fishing” – Splash-Cam
Another handy underwater camera is called a “Splash-Cam.” This underwater video camera attaches to a telescoping pole and is “wired” to the surface. This allows us to deploy a camera where we wouldn’t otherwise choose to send a scuba diver or to simply take a quick look at something of interest.
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Marine Vocals – Hydrophone
The hydrophone allows us to hear vocalizations by marine mammals. Not all of which make “sounds,” but in some of the areas we travel they are quite vocal. When conditions are right, we deploy the hydrophone to either capture vocalizations in a recording to be heard later, or broadcast live on the ship’s P.A. system to be heard while actually watching marine mammals!
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Sight Unseen – Plankton Nets
The vessels also have plankton nets onboard. These are cone-shaped nets with small mesh that are used to filter tiny animals, algae and protozoa from water. These samples can then be viewed using the video microscope.
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Front Row Seats – Bow Camera

New to our arsenal is the bow Camera, an underwater camera designed to deploy and retractdirectly from Sea Lion & Sea Bird’s bow. The camera is wired to monitors in our lounge where there is a joystick to operate, allowing viewers camera control. Get a whole new perspective on bow-riding dolphins!
Experience these regions the way they were meant to be seen: aboard our intimate expedition ships and at "elbow height" via kayak!
Sea Kayaking

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