The Bergen tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl sets sail on Friday 20 August from Arendal in Norway and will spend 20 months circumnavigating the world. The One Ocean Expedition is going to be a ‘university at sea’, with the aim of drawing attention to and sharing knowledge about the crucial role of the ocean in global sustainable development, and uniting people from all over the world in the process.
The One Ocean Expedition starts on 20 August 2021 and lasts until April 2023. Over these 20 months Statsraad Lehmkuhl will sail 55,000 nautical miles and visit 36 ports worldwide. The ship will regularly send home reports to different schools and higher education institutions.
The ship is equipped with modern instrumentation and will collect high-quality data of ocean physics, chemistry and biology throughout the voyage. Everyone can follow the expedition online and parts of the expedition will be open for paying passengers. Some of the legs are sold out, but some are also available for booking.
The world circumnavigation is organised so that different collaborating partners hire the ship during different legs of the journey. The University of Bergen, the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL) and in total 13 research institutions and Norwegian ministries are participating in the project, which has a financial outlay of NOK180 million (US$20 million) to NOK200 million (US$22 million).
In November this year the University of Bergen postgraduate course
‘Climate action field course: Causes, consequences and solutions to the
climate challenge’ will be run while the ship is sailing from Curacao,
via Kingston, to Havana, Cuba.
Then from May to August 2022, a new interdisciplinary course in
sustainability at the University of Bergen – Ocean, Climate, Society –
will be run on board the Statsraad Lehmkuhl while the ship sails across
the Pacific Ocean from Valparaiso to Palau.
The course is open to students from the University of Bergen and
dedicated partner universities who have passed at least 60 ECTS
(European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) points. The course
will be open for applications between 1 and 30 September 2021.
* An outline of the route and tickets are available here.
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