During your journey, you will be able to see calving glaciers from very close up. And you will be able to kayak through the ice fields or even climb onto an iceberg or just watch everything unfold from a deck chair or our hot tub. If the conditions permit, divers may even be able to scuba dive under the icebergs as well.

You will be able to go home and tell your friends what humpback whale halitosis really smells like! On certain trips, you may even be able to hike up the shoreline of a wilderness stream and snorkel and free dive with pink and sockeye salmon. And if you're exceptionally lucky, we will even see grizzly bears from so close up that you will feel like you are in a National Geographic documentary!!

Even with all these activities going on, we will still average 2 dives per day and see incredibly prolific and beautiful invertebrate life including lots anemones, sponges, tunicates and soft corals as well as octopus, wolf eels and sea lions. While the topography can be very steep and strong currents provide some timing challenges (and discipline) in order to dive at "slack", our experienced crew and custom designed 38 foot dive skiff are there to make your life easy and the diving "good fun".

This is a great trip for photographers and we are well setup to look after both film and digital shooters with big camera tables, rinse buckets, a PC, mini Mac, card reader and CD burner, large plasma TV as well as an enthusiastic camera savvy crew. Nitrox, trimix and rebreather divers are easily accommodated. Please note there will be 3 dives on same days and on other days, the planned activities may preclude any diving. Some dive sites have a diversity of marine life exceeding anything we have seen anywhere else.

Trips board in Vancouver, B.C. and Ketchikan, Sitka and Juneau, Alaska. Most trips are either northbound or southbound Inside Passage trips between Vancouver and Alaska OR intra-Alaska adventures between 2 ports in southeastern Alaska. These are very different trips than anything else we offer. Each voyage becomes an adventure and each itinerary and experience is different. No wonder that clients come back year after year to sample yet another Alaskan Adventure.

Seattle, Washington is the gateway to Alaska with multiple daily flights to Ketchikan, Sitka, Juneau and even Vancouver, BC. Vancouver and Seattle are both easy to get to with excellent connections from Frankfurt, Paris and London and virtually anywhere in North America. Boarding times on trips vary depending on the tides but are generally 4 p.m. in the evening. Almost all traveling is done at night to maximize your time on-site during the day. Trip lengths vary between 7, 9, 10, 12 & 14 nights because of the unique nature of these trips.