Hawk Yachts have reported that last September at the Monaco Yacht Show the company together with the National Geographic Magazine hosted a combined presentation, where they launched the new National Geographic Explorers Circle. During the presentation, they have discussed collaboration between the yachting industry, yacht owners, and the scientific marine research.
103m explorer superyacht SEA HAWK project by Hawk Yachts
President of Hawk Yachts, Captain Matthias Bosse,commented: “The need for cooperation between owners of luxury yachts and the marine science research institutes has never been greater. With the increase in owners wanting to go further, the time is right to encourage all owners to allocate greater resource to this cause. Every significant voyage can add vital research information and help conserve the fragile bio-marine system”
Luxury motor yacht SEA HAWK project – Image Credit to Patrick Kelley
Explorer yachts are becoming increasingly popular, as superyacht owners and yacht charterers are looking for new destinations to discover and more exciting and adventurous voyages to undertake. There is a steady increase in commercial vessels being converted in luxury expedition yachts, offering both deluxe amenities that are normally found aboard superyachts, with the addition of world-cruising capabilities, sophisticated ‘water toys’, such as submarines, as well as occasional onboard laboratories, amongst others.
Luxury explorer yacht SEA HAWK project
The MYS also saw Hawk Yachts launching their new expedition yacht project SEA HAWK: a motor yacht of 103 metres, ideal for true worldwide exploration and adventure in safety and luxury. The company has recently added two new explorer vessels: the 75-metre Sky Hawk as well as the 56-metre Cape Hawk as a response to the increasing trend of some yachting owners to go further, explore more and move away from the restrictions of the Mediterranean and occasional fair weather extensions to the Caribbean.
At the same time, Hawk Yachts believe that scientific research of the oceans is increasingly important as global warming and cyclical climate change is fast changing the balance of marine life and weather pattern.
Paul Rose, a well-known explorer and expedition leader, pointed out the benefits of collaboration between the research and leisure yachting. The cost of travel is making up some 70%+ of the cost of a scientific expedition. As well as providing transport to scientist to otherwise inaccessible research areas there could be a multitude of aspects involved, from the tagging of marine life to the dropping of scientific floats and ultimately scientific laboratory facilities aboard the larger vessels.
As announced by Hawk Yachts, the time of significant collaboration has come and with this joint event, they aim at promoting the merging of interests and offer the platform for an ever increasing need to marine research. The company is deeply committed to this cause, including scientific facilities within the GAs of their sophisticated expedition yacht designs in order to convince new owners to cooperate with the needs of the oceans that they use.
We, at CharterWorld, believe that this cooperation can be applied to potential clients that wish to combine their yacht charter vacation with adventure while supporting marine research and science at the same time, by the means of chartering one of these highly sophisticated expedition vessels in the future.
