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Join Blue Green Expeditions on an educational diving-oriented adventure to the Arctic Ocean around Spitsbergen. Dive, snorkel and cruise around massive icebergs, spot the endangered polar bear, and explore pristine polar landscapes. This will be an amazing expedition!

Join Blue Green Expeditions in Croatia! This is a combination liveaboard and land based trip! Our journey will take us to many pristine dive sites and cultural heritage sites. We will be diving near the island of Vis which has numerous wrecks as well as beautiful deep walls and amazing visibility. For the land based portion we will explore the historical cities of Dubrovnik and Split as well as several Natural World Heritage sites. Come join us!!

Jacques Cousteau and John Steinbeck saw the magic that the Sea of Cortez has to offer. Jacques Cousteau called the Sea of Cortez “the worlds aquarium.” John Steinbeck wrote "The Log of the Sea of Cortez" a journey through a remote and beautiful corner of the world, a diary filled with the daily excitements and triumphs of skillful and energetic men. It is also an invitation to see the world anew from a fresh vantage point and perhaps with a broader and more understanding spirit. Come explore the Sea of Cortez, home to an amazing array of wild life above and below the water line, with Blue Green Expeditions aboard the Nautilus Gallant Lady!!

Jacques Cousteau and John Steinbeck saw the magic that the Sea of Cortez has to offer. Jacques Cousteau called the Sea of Cortez “the worlds aquarium.” John Steinbeck wrote "The Log of the Sea of Cortez" a journey through a remote and beautiful corner of the world, a diary filled with the daily excitements and triumphs of skillful and energetic men. It is also an invitation to see the world anew from a fresh vantage point and perhaps with a broader and more understanding spirit. Come explore the Sea of Cortez, home to an amazing array of wild life above and below the water line, with Blue Green Expeditions aboard the Nautilus Gallant Lady!!

Join Blue Green Expeditions and Faith Ortins on an adventure to Hornby Island! Hornby Island is located east of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. We will be staying at the Hornby Island Dive Lodge for 6 nights and will do 10- 12 boat dives. The dive boat is moored just steps away from the lodge and all of the dive sites are located within 15 minutes of the harbor. You can expect to see wolf eels, pacific red octopus, jellyfish, sculpin and of course Steller Sea Lions!

Blue Green Expeditions is headed to the best diving in British Columbia and in our opinion the best cold water diving in the world! We start our trip in Vancouver then head out to Hornby Island for four nights and three days of diving. Hornby is home to huge colonies of Steller Sea Lions! These 500lb Sea Lions are very curious and they will be hanging close to the divers for some nice photo opportunities! We then venture to Gods Pocket dive resort for 5 nights and 4 days of diving. Diving God’s Pocket is pristine, remote diving with some of the most amazing scenery in the world. Here we will get to see giant pacific octopus, nudibranchs, wolf eels, rockfish, anemones, shrimp and all sorts of underwater marine life. This is one amazing trip that you don’t want to miss!

Blue Green Expeditions is headed on an adventure truly out of the ordinary! We will be snorkeling with Orcas in the fjords of Norway. Due to the wintry conditions of Northern Norway, this is a trip for the true adventurer. We will be staying onboard the beautiful Duen. She is a 72 foot sailing ketch with just 6 cabins and a maximum of 10 guests. The vessel is well equipped for Arctic sailing and offers all the amenities you will need for this journey. Large amounts of herring gather in these northern waters and with the herring, brings the hunters. It is an extraordinary spectacle to watch hundreds of Orcas in the sea and then be among the few explorers to experience snorkeling with them. Humpback whales, fin whales and minkes are often seen in these waters too. Orcas do not tolerate open circuit scuba so we will only be snorkeling with them. While we can not dive with the cetaceans, weather permitting, we will explore diving possibilities in the fjords so bring your dive gear. Lets see what we can find! In the evenings, we will be delighted by the beauty of the northern lights. This is one unique adventure you will want to join us for!

Join Blue Green Expeditions for some of the most spectacular pelagic diving on the planet!! Galapagos!! We will be aboard the luxurious MV Humboldt Explorer for 10 days where up to 30 dives are possible. While this is not whale shark season, our special 10 day permit will give us the opportunity to explore rarely visited islands looking for schools of Mola Molas and Cow Rays. The Galapagos is one of those rare places where you can dive through hundreds of hammerhead sharks. Come join us!

Join Faith Ortins from Blue Green Expeditions and other polar diving specialists and photographers on an amazing expedition to Antarctica! Joining us on this incredible journey will be leaders from GUE who will be on the trip doing Project Baseline programs. We arrive February 3th in Ushuaia, Argentina for an overnight stay as well as a day tour of Tierra Del Fuego National Park before embarking on our journey aboard the majestic m/v Plancius to Antarctica. We will sail through the Drake Passage tracing the path of the early polar explorers who first braved these regions. Along the way, we will see Humpback and Minke whales breaching in the sea as well as albatrosses and many other birds that will accompany us on our journey. We will tour glaciers and icebergs on zodiac cruises exploring areas few people have ever seen before. Amongst the epic landscape of mammoth glaciers and wind carved snow live colonies of thousands of penguins nesting on these islands. Divers will experience the opportunity to swim with penguins and leopard seals as well as seeing the unique invertebrate life of Antarctica.

Join Blue Green Expeditions for an incredible land-based adventure in Patagonia and Iguazu Falls. This trip will include lots of hiking, fast landscapes, and amazing views.

Learn about Cuba’s unique marine environment during an Oceans for Youth Foundation People-to-People educational program. Citizens of the U.S. will fly into Havana where they will spend a full day meeting with scientists about Cuba’s marine parks. After two nights in Havana, transportation is provided to the southern town of Jucaro, where the Jardines Aggressor live aboard docks. Guests will depart for six days of scuba diving in the Gardens of the Queen (Jardines de la Reina) National Park, one of the oldest marine national parks in the world, located 60 miles off the southern coast. Biologists will host discussions and presentations covering many topics including: proper mooring procedures and installations, fish tagging, commercial fishing and other local environmental issues. Given governmental regulations contact Blue Green Expeditions directly to learn more and to register for this trip via info@bluegreenexpeditions.com.

Explore the wonders of down under as we explore one of the most remote parts of Australia, TASMANIA! Home of the Tasmanian Devil on land and amazingly rich marine life underwater such as weedy sea dragons, fur seals, fish covered wrecks and magnificent kelp forests. On land you can enjoy pristine national parks, incredible historical sites, beautiful hikes and diverse wildlife. Whether you love marine life, intricate caverns, caves, walls, canyons or shipwrecks, Tasmania has something for you!

Explore the wonders of down under as we explore one of the most remote parts of Australia, TASMANIA! Home of the Tasmanian Devil on land and amazingly rich marine life underwater such as weedy sea dragons, fur seals, fish covered wrecks and magnificent kelp forests. On land you can enjoy pristine national parks, incredible historical sites, beautiful hikes and diverse wildlife. Whether you love marine life, intricate caverns, caves, walls, canyons or shipwrecks, Tasmania has something for you!

Explore the wonders of down under as we explore one of the most remote parts of Australia, TASMANIA! Home of the Tasmanian Devil on land and amazingly rich marine life underwater such as weedy sea dragons, fur seals, fish covered wrecks and magnificent kelp forests. On land you can enjoy pristine national parks, incredible historical sites, beautiful hikes and diverse wildlife. Whether you love marine life, intricate caverns, caves, walls, canyons or shipwrecks, Tasmania has something for you!

Join Blue Green Expeditions on an incredible journey to Oman! Oman offers pristine reefs, stunning deserts, rugged mountains and endless beaches. The Arabian sea and Gulf of Oman provide large coral reefs in the deep fjords of Musandam, at Daymaniyat Islands off the coast of Muscat and Hallaniyat Islands off the coast of Mirbat in southern Oman as well as untouched and undiscovered reefs and wrecks. The sea is full or fascinating life - whales, sharks, dolphins, rays, sharks, turtles, mobula, eels, nudibranchs and more! Over 1000 different types of fish and shell fish call the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman home!

Blue Green Expeditions is headed to Sudan! Explore the untapped part of the Red Sea with us for 10 days of diving onboard the majestic Tala. The deep south of the Sudan offers spectacular reefs, vibrant marine life and plenty of sharks! We will dive the southernmost reefs in the Sudanese Red Sea such as Sanganeb, Shab Ambar and Dahrat Abid which offer bountiful marine life, beautiful corals and numerous sharks such as white tip, silver tip and hammerheads. Our route will then head north to explore reefs such as Shaab Rumi and the famous Cousteau habitat, Precontinent II. Come join us for this adventure!

Join Blue Green Expeditions on our journey to Russia! Our trip will start in Lake Baikal for six nights aboard a liveaboard fully equipped for divers including rebreathers. Lake Baikal has canyons, walls, shipwrecks, grottos and tunnels to explore. The water is cold so you definitely want to bring your drysuit! Our journey then continues onto Saint Petersburg where we will have four days of touring the “Venice of the North”. This will be another epic adventure!

Join Blue Green Expeditions on our journey to Russia! Our trip will start in Saint Petersburg where we will have four days of touring the “Venice of the North”. Our journey then continues onto Lake Baikal for six nights aboard a liveaboard fully equipped for divers including rebreathers. Lake Baikal has canyons, walls, shipwrecks, grottos and tunnels to explore. The water is cold so you definitely want to bring your drysuit! This will be another epic adventure!

Explore the Greek Islands with Blue Green Expeditions! Greece is the birthplace of western civilization and has only recently been open to divers. Our journey will be onboard on a specially equipped catamaran through the Aegean and Ionian Seas. The expedition is customized to the groups interests and can include diving, snorkeling, exploring uninhabited islands, kayaking, or touring cultural sites. Recent changes in regulation regarding diving on historically significant shipwrecks mean that there are more dive sites and many of them are virtually untouched! Come explore with us!!

Blue Green Expeditions is headed to the Alor Islands in Indonesia. We will be onboard the m/v Pindito, a beautiful liveaboard with luxury cabin’s and its own camera room! The archipelago of Alor includes 6 islands with Pantar and Alor being the biggest ones. There are more than 60 impressive and mostly untouched dive sites around Alor. Most of these lie in the nutrient-rich Pantar Straits between Alor and Pantar. You can expect to see incredible underwater biodiversity. In addition, nutrient rich upwelling waters bring in the pelagics. We have seen sunfish, thresher sharks, hammerhead sharks, humpback whales and even marlin and sailfish. The many protected pristine reefs provide a perfect home for smaller colorful creatures and up to 1,000 species of coral reef fishes and 500 species of corals. Walls, bommies, caves and patch reef formations make for dramatic 3D underwater topography while black sand areas provide perfect habitat for muck diving and cryptic critters. Come join us in diving these pristine dive sites!

Join Faith Ortins, of Blue Green Expeditions, and Nancy McGee, acclaimed underwater filmmaker and explorer, on an amazing expedition to the far North. The itinerary offers the opportunity to explore both Iceland and Greenland above and below the water line.

Explore the Greek Islands with Blue Green Expeditions! Greece is the birthplace of western civilization and has only recently been open to divers. Our journey will be onboard on a specially equipped catamaran through the Aegean and Ionian Seas. The expedition is customized to the groups interests and can include diving, snorkeling, exploring uninhabited islands, kayaking, or touring cultural sites. Recent changes in regulation regarding diving on historically significant shipwrecks mean that there are more dive sites and many of them are virtually untouched! Come explore with us!!

Join Becky Kagan Schott and Blue Green Expeditions as they return for another Technical Trip in Croatia! This is an exciting opportunity for technical divers to dive with a world class photographer and experience the amazing historical ship wrecks of Croatia. Becky is a 5 time Emmy-Award winning photographer and technical Diving Instructor. This is a technical dive trip for trimix open circuit and rebreather divers.

Blue Green Expeditions is headed to Brazil! We will be exploring Recife and Fernando De Noronha for a dive experience that will blow your mind! The first part of our trip starts in Recife where we will meet up with Aquaticos Dive Center. Recife is known as the shipwreck capital of Brazil with more than 100 wrecks in its waters. We then will travel to Fernando de Noronha which is a national marine park and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here you will find an incredible diversity of marine life in crystal clear warm water. You may see spinner dolphins, hawksbill sea turtles,manta rays, many different species of sharks, groupers and maybe even whale sharks!

Blue Green Expeditions is headed to the best diving in British Columbia and in our opinion the best cold water diving in the world! We start our trip in Vancouver then head out to Hornby Island for four nights and three days of diving. Hornby is home to huge colonies of Steller Sea Lions! These 500lb Sea Lions are very curious and they will be hanging close to the divers for some nice photo opportunities! We then venture to Gods Pocket dive resort for 5 nights and 4 days of diving. Diving God’s Pocket is pristine, remote diving with some of the most amazing scenery in the world. Here we will get to see giant pacific octopus, nudibranchs, wolf eels, rockfish, anemones, shrimp and all sorts of underwater marine life. This is one amazing trip that you don’t want to miss!

Learn about Cuba’s unique marine environment during an Oceans for Youth Foundation People-to-People educational program. Citizens of the U.S. will fly into Havana where they will spend a full day meeting with scientists about Cuba’s marine parks. After two nights in Havana, transportation is provided to the southern town of Jucaro, where the Jardines Aggressor live aboard docks. Guests will depart for six days of scuba diving in the Gardens of the Queen (Jardines de la Reina) National Park, one of the oldest marine national parks in the world, located 60 miles off the southern coast. Biologists will host discussions and presentations covering many topics including: proper mooring procedures and installations, fish tagging, commercial fishing and other local environmental issues. Given governmental regulations contact Blue Green Expeditions directly to learn more and to register for this trip via info@bluegreenexpeditions.com.

Join Blue Green Expeditions in Israel and Jordan as we step back in time and journey to sacred sites, historical spaces, deserts, and dive the magnificent Red Sea. This 8 day, 9-night adventure is perfect for those interested in exciting top side activities while also enjoying diving on beautiful coral gardens and wrecks in the Red Sea.

Malpelo is a remote volcanic island located over 300 miles off the coast of Columbia. It is the largest no fishing zone in the Eastern Tropical Pacific and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The deep water and various ocean currents make this the perfect place for an extraordinary shark population. It is widely acclaimed as one of the top diving sites in the world due to the large aggregates of sharks and pelagic species. Due to the strong ocean currents, this is a destination for experienced divers and all divers must have an Advanced Open Water certification, Nitrox certification and at least 50 logged dives. Massive schools of hammerhead and silky sharks are found here along with Galapagos, white tip, whale sharks, manta and eagle rays, free-swimming moray eels, as well as the reclusive small tooth sand tiger. If you are looking to dive with hundreds of hammerheads and silky sharks you want to join Blue Green Expeditions on this adventure!

Join Blue Green Expeditions for an incredible adventure in Palau where we will explore virgin territory in the deep southern part of Palau - Helen’s Reef.

Blue Green Expeditions is headed to one of the most amazing journeys in the world- the Sardine Aggregation of South Africa! The sardine aggregation describes seasonal migration of sardines off the coast of South Africa and is part of the largest marine activity on the planet. The sheer volume of large marine mammals and sharks that follow the sardines can be a spectacular sight to see above and below the water. We will spend up to seven days looking for the aggregation and the tell tale signs of them as they begin their journey along the coast of South Africa. Com join us for this unique expedition!

Join Faith Ortins from Blue Green Expeditions, world renowned photographer Becky Kagan Schott, and other polar diving specialists and photographers on an amazing expedition to Antarctica! This is the 100th aniversary of Sir Ernest Shackleton's death. We will honor this heroic polar explorer by transiting the Scotia Arc including the Falkland Islands, South Georgia Islands (including Grytviken where he is buried), South Orkney Islands, Elephant Island, Detaillie Island, and, of course, Antarctica itself. This adventure focuses on exploring new territory as well as incredible animal interactions and dynamic ice conditions. This trip is perfect for those with a thirst for exploration as we venture to virgin dive sites, tour historic and current research stations and more while seeing the best Antarctica has to offer!

Blue Green Expeditions is traveling to Bikini Atoll aboard the MV Truk Master and Becky Kagan Schott will be the Expedition Leader for this amazing trip!. Bikini was the site of a pair of nuclear weapon tests by the US government in 1946. Ninety five ships including obsolete battleships, aircraft carriers, submarines, numerous auxiliary ships and three surrendered German and Japanese warships were purposely bombed in the calm clear waters of Bikini atoll. It is now the greatest underwater warship wreck museum in the world. This is a technical diver only event - come join us!!

Blue Green Expeditions will be running a new transition trip in Indonesia with muck diving, coral reefs and Big Fish! We will be onboard the luxurious Raja Ampat Aggressor cruising from one beautiful location to the next! This off the beaten path itinerary includes the best of “the Coral Triangle”, the richest coral reef ecosystem in the world that contains at least 500 species of reef-building corals and additional species of soft and encrusting corals all contributing to the vibrant, rainbow of colors in the region's crystal clear waters.