Iconic cultural expedition cruise pioneer groups up with the SETI Institute to take its cruise friends’ explorations additional and deeper, together with into deep area. The SETI Institute is an area and Earth science analysis organisation supporting NASA and NSF programmes and partnering with personal trade and academia to reply a few of humanity’s most profound science questions.
COURTESY Swan Hellenic: Cyprus and Mountain View, CA, Thursday the 8 of December 2022: Swan Hellenic introduced right now that it has entered right into a partnership with the SETI Institute to offer its friends with knowledgeable insights into the historical past and newest discoveries in astronomy, astrophysics, astrobiology and planetary science, and the search to seek out different types of life inside and past our photo voltaic system. This quest takes SETI Institute researchers to probably the most distant and inhospitable corners of the planet to discover life, together with Antarctica, the place the Swan Hellenic fleet is, in fact, current for a number of months yearly.
The new partnership is ready to have interaction Swan Hellenic’s many journey travellers with never-before-seen displays on explorations round Earth and past, with SETI Institute tools, together with a complicated telescope, put in on board.
The consultants initially scheduled for Swan Hellenic’s 2023 cultural expedition cruises embody Director of Education & Outreach and Deputy Director of Research Dr. Simon Steel, a PhD Astronomer and Astrophysicist who specialises in finding out galaxies. He has taught each at Harvard University and University College London. Plans are within the works for him to accompany SH Vega on cultural expedition cruises of Antarctica, the British Isles and Iceland.
Bill Diamond, the President and CEO of the SETI Institute, is likewise finalising preparations to accompany Swan Hellenic’s Arctic Odyssey cruise aboard SH Diana in June. Diamond has labored predominantly in utilized applied sciences and has over 20 years of expertise in photonics and optical communications, plus greater than a decade in X-ray and semiconductor processing applied sciences.
Diamond commented on the settlement: “The SETI Institute’s work brings humanity’s relationship with our planet, our solar system and the Universe beyond into focus. Over 100 Institute scientists strive to understand humankind’s place in the cosmos. Outreach and public engagement are also central to our mission, and we are delighted with the opportunity to have our scientists and thought leaders interact with the curious-minded adventurers who explore with Swan Hellenic.”
Swan Hellenic CEO Andrea Zito commented: “We are immensely proud of this new partnership. The presence of the SETI Institute’s eminent scientists on board our cultural expedition cruises, imparting their expert knowledge of astrobiology, geology, physics, chemistry and astronomy, completes another facet of the quest to take our guests to see what others don’t”.
About Swan Hellenic
Swan Hellenic was relaunched in July 2020 to proudly proceed the spirit of cultural expedition cruising the corporate pioneered within the Fifties. Building on its British roots, the brand new firm has a world cultural cruising outlook devoted to offering friends with the chance to see what others don’t.
Swan Hellenic’s purpose-built ships characteristic elegant Scandi-design interiors, intensive out of doors areas and devoted expedition amenities. SH Minerva and SH Vega, two new 5-star Polar Code PC 5 expedition cruise ships with ice-strengthened hulls, respectively launched in December 2021 and arriving in July 2022, every accommodates 152 friends in 76 spacious suites and staterooms, the bulk with giant balconies. A barely bigger PC 6 ice-class vessel, SH Diana, accommodating 192 friends in the identical distinctive consolation and elegance in 96 staterooms and suites, will probably be arriving in early 2023.
All three ships characteristic 3 eating venues – the Swan Restaurant, Club Lounge and Pool Bar & Grill – and are being in-built full compliance with SOLAS Safe Return to Port necessities. Dedicated to friends with a ardour for journey and cultural exploration, the corporate’s meticulously deliberate itineraries discover the wild landscapes, wildlife, peoples and distinctive cultures of the world’s much less travelled areas.
The crews every embody a group of 12 seasoned expedition guides, knowledgeable audio system and lecturers, for a complete complement of 120 and 140 individuals respectively, providing excellent staff-to-guest ratios to ship the very best requirements of attentive private service.
Headquartered in Cyprus with places of work in London, Dusseldorf, Monaco, Fort Lauderdale (serving the North American market), Hong Kong (serving Greater China and South-East Asia), Sydney (serving Australia-New Zealand) and Copenhagen (serving Scandinavia and Iceland), in addition to partnerships serving India and Japan, Swan Hellenic helps the journey commerce with native specialist companions to offer prospects with knowledgeable private service worldwide.
About the SETI Institute
Founded in 1984, the SETI Institute is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary analysis and training group whose mission is to steer humanity’s quest to know the origins and prevalence of life and intelligence within the Universe and to share that data with the world. Its analysis encompasses the bodily and organic sciences and leverages experience in knowledge analytics, machine studying and superior sign detection applied sciences. The SETI Institute is a distinguished analysis associate for trade, academia and authorities businesses, together with NASA and NSF.
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