There are places on this planet where silence speaks louder than anything else — where ice, wind, and water hold stories older than us all. The Arctic Howl is one of those stories. This documentary follows an Ocean Missions scientific sailing expedition onboard the sailing vessel Tilvera into the Hope Spot of Svalbard — a …

The Hope Expedition – Monitoring Sensitive Arctic Coasts I North Iceland Each summer, an expedition begins into the Arctic to survey the Arctic and coastal areas around Skjalfandi Bay and Eyjafjörður in North Iceland, where huge numbers of migratory whales call home. One of the most pristine places in the world, the threat of modern …

Some collaborations feel natural — like currents meeting in open water, moving toward the same horizon. Our work with QWST is one of those. At Ocean Missions, we spend our days on Iceland’s shores and surrounding waters, removing debris, documenting pollution, and working to better understand the challenges our oceans face. It’s hands-on, often demanding …

To Move. To Discover. To Connect. Three verbs that touch the soul of the adventurer, the traveller, the dreamer, and that always lead him – or her – to look beyond the horizon.  Becoming champions of Iceland’s First Hope Spot, the Northeast Iceland Hope Spot, the achievement that lit up our 2023, has also inflated …

Clear evidence shows that we are inevitably reaching the limits of the resilience of most of our oceans and seas. Despite the increase in international policies coming in place to address climate change issues and to regulate human-made impacts, the reality is that we have already reached crucial tipping points on the state of the …

We are super excited to announce some of the big news for 2024! Our recent collaboration with The Tilvera Project is one step forward towards achieving the main goals of Ocean Missions to work in ocean conservation and to engage people in ocean research and education. The Tilvera project offers purposeful expeditions and transformative voyages …

On October 1st, Ocean Missions and the Húsavík Whale Museum held the first “Hope Spot Festival” in Húsavík; a public celebration of the declaration of the Northeast Iceland Hope Spot sponsored by Mission Blue. Weeks of preparation and anticipation went into the event! The French scouts and guides who came to volunteer with us for …

Our expeditions are always full of adventurous, bright and rebellious souls, who see the world from different points of view and always seek to know more, travel better, grow taller. This is also the case for Assistant Professor Rob Layton, who used an iPhone to film and produce a documentary about our scientific expedition around …

In 2021 we were contacted by someone with a great spirit, a great talent and, above all, a great need to change things. Florian Seltmann, a young German videographer inspired and disgusted by the unnaturalness of our artificial world, decided to turn his career around and dedicate himself to creating art that could change the …

Hope is a word connected to “change”.  A link between present and future, that leads us to a path of transformation. When we have hope: we see the possibility of change.   When we have hope: we act towards the change.  Oceans Missions and The Hope Expedition aim to change the way we relate not only …

It has been a very busy and intense winter for Ocean Missions! As our research grows and covers more content, while our steps lead us to go further into the world of marine scientific research and to open up to other entities, universities and events, there are more and more opportunities that we have to …

We had been dreaming of this for years. Years fighting, gathering information, studying, contacting experts, raising our voices and singing to the four winds that our coast, our wonderful and unique coast, deserved recognition commensurate with its value. And finally, at the beginning of this year 2023, the dream came true. Together, Ocean Missions NGO …

Animal problems are human problems; we are in this sh*t together. I just got home from spending four weeks in August working in the far north, between the latitudes 70 and 71 in East Greenland. I was a wildlife guide on the Schooner Opal for North Sailing. My first time in Scoresby Sound was in …