Seaventure

In 2006 this vessel transited the Northwest Passage.

In 1991, ice prevented the 164-berth Frontier Spirit (now the Bremen) from completing an eastbound voyage. Chartered by Salen Lindblad Cruising, this vessel had to turn back at Point Barrow, 1,000 miles from Dutch Harbor, where this vessel had begun. Even a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker could not penetrate the ice, so this vesselheaded for Vancouver instead of St John’s and two East Coast cruises had to be cancelled. In the summer of 2010, both of Hapag-Lloyd’s expedition ships, Bremen and Hanseatic, transited the full Northwest Passage, with one ship travelling in each direction. During their crossings, the two ships managed to rendezvous with each other for a barbecue near Cambridge Bay.