Up at 3.30 am. Brush our teeth, slip into our oilskins. The watch change is at 4.00 am. For the next four hours, three crew members are in charge of the ship, whilst the rest of the crew ar…
Sermersuuaq – the great ice
We leave Tasiilaq and continue southwards. Our destination for today: a sheltered bay off Hornemann Island. We intend to drop anchor there.
Towards evening, we make our way cautiously into…
Greenland and the ‘Red House’
A visit to the ‘Red House’
It takes the Dagmar Aaen just under three days to make the crossing from Iceland to Greenland – for us, this time it meant three days on the North Atlantic with…
Vestmannaeyjar und Reykjavík
Heimaey heisst der einzige Ort und Hafen auf den Westmännerinseln (Vestmannaeyjar). Der Name stammt wohl von den Wikingern, die die Inseln als erste erreicht und sich dort angesiedelt haben…
A first-ever match between the Faroe Islands and Iceland
The Dagmar Aaen has been operating as a volunteer weather observation vessel since the early 1990s. Back then, data was still recorded manually and transmitted by radio. Today, we have a fu…
Etappenziel Orkney
Der Beginn der Ocean Change 2026 war behutsam. Von Kiel aus ging die Reise zunächst durch den Nord-Ost-Kanal, mit Übernachtungen in Rendsburg und Brunsbüttel, bevor wir von dort weiter nach…
OCEAN CHANGE 2026 has been launched
The “Ocean Change 2026/27” expedition has got off to a successful start – the crew will set off on the next leg of their journey to Greenland and Canada from Kiel on 4 June.
Arved Fuchs an…
