Our Boat and Crew

Your Captain CK has vast experience working in the private boat chartering business over the many years of his long-standing career. Throughout this time, he has worked closely with such people as Dame Ellen MacArthur, working as her towboat captain during her record-breaking round-the-world trip. He has also worked alongside a selected team in the “Whitbread Round the World Race”, plus several other cross-Atlantic challenges that finished off at the Lizard Point in Cornwall.

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From both a personal and business point of view, we do our utmost to support all the conservation groups we work closely with and help promote their conservation initiatives.

CK is a dedicated, professional wildlife guide, who understands the complex issues of filming in the natural world.  In the past, he has worked with “The Really Wild Show” and their presenter, Michaela Strachan, filming basking sharks. Furthermore, he has carried out survey work for the WDCS and the RSPB.

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CK was the very first operator in the UK to endorse and sign up for the nationally accredited “WiSe” scheme, as well as being endorsed by the SeaWatch Foundation and the WDCS, ensuring sensitive interaction with all the marine mammals and birds observed during our “safari” excursions.

Cam is one of AK’s management team, but also a very active crew member — he can often be seen out on Spirit of Our Seas, and loves nothing more than being out on the Cornish waves.

Cam is a very experienced Marine Mammal Medic with British Divers Marine Life Rescue, as well as being Assistant National Equipment Coordinator for the charity; he is currently training to be an Advanced Marine Mammal Medic. He is a Strandings Recorder for the Cornwall Wildlife Trust Marine Strandings Network, and carries out marine mammal postmortem examinations with Cornwall Marine Pathology Team. He is also an experienced cetacean researcher, having worked at the Bottlenose Dolphin Research Institute in Spain, undertaking a research expedition with the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust, aboard their Research Vessel “R/V Silurian”.

He regularly speaks at conferences across the UK, having delivered talks on the role of baleen whales and phytoplankton in carbon sequestration, and whale hunting in Iceland and the Faroe Islands. He is currently working with the international nonprofit law firm Cetacean Law to make substantive policy proposals to the Government about how the UK can use its trade influence to bring pilot whale drive hunting in the Faroe Islands to an end, and has been invited to address the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Ocean Conservation on this matter.