Martin Enckell

After learning that his father worked for Jacques-Yves Cousteau aboard the famous ship Calypso, Swedish-born Martin Enckell insisted on learning to dive right away. His training started at the age of 12 with Israeli navy divers in the Red sea.

Martin began his career at sea in 1994 and has been on the move ever since.

Having stood at the Geographical North Pole seven times and been returning every year to the Antarctic and the high Arctic since 1999.

Martin works as Expedition Leader, Zodiac Driver, Dive Master and Private Guide. Based for 18 months in the Maldives, but wanting to specialize in the colder waters of the world, Martin started the Antarctic Dive Program for Quark Expeditions, successfully guiding diving excursions in the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands.

Commercially, Martin worked as safety diver on the feature film “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” and led the underwater team filming Sir David Attenborough’s “Penguin Island” in South Georgia. In Nov 2016 he was BBC's Antarctic specialist whilst filming Blue planet 2.

Enjoying the contrast of the Polar Regions and the tropics, Aldabra in the outer Seychelles, Africa, Madagascar and Maldives continue to pull Martin to the Indian Ocean year after year.

Still, by choice, most of his time has been spent in the Antarctic and the Arctic; along with the Canadian Maritimes, Northwest Passage, Iceland, Norway and Greenland.

In the Arctic Martin has explored both the West & East coasts of Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Franz Josef Land, Novaya Semlja, White Sea, Sea of Okhotsk in the Russian Arctic. Svalbard has almost become a second home as the season there spend from March to September.