In the early morning at 5.54.15h we crossed the Equator. The officer blew the ships horn and so nobody could miss this moment. At 14.00...

During the next two days we will be more or less focused on the Equator crossing and the Equator baptism celebration. But of course there w...

During the last two days we were sailing through a zone with upwelling waters and as we had a little more wind at the same time we were co...

“Here on the good ship ‘Fram’ everything is relaxed and friendly, with first names being the order of the day amid the total informality of ...

Time is passing by very fast. After four days at sea we feel like home on our ship MV FRAM. The weather is wonderful. The wind is blowing...

When we woke up in the morning we were sailing already in the South Atlantic. In a distance of 12nm we passed Uruguay. Like a shadow at t...

During the last night we sailed through the Rio de la Plata and reached Buenos Aires around 8:00h. Here we had to change our passengers a...

This was the last day of our wonderful trip to Antarctica, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas. We were looking forwar...

No matter how much time you spent at sea, the power and mysticism of the ocean never seizes to enthrall you. Like Jacques Cousteau said ‘Th...

The high winds of yesterday blew right past us during the night. We awoke to blue skies and a light breeze blowing from the west. We had id...

It should have been a wonderful day with the Black- browed albatrosses and Rockhopper penguins, but the weather forced us into plan B and...