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Envoys and OceanX have created a unique partnership to allow students to join the research team onboard the highly sophisticated OceanXplorer vessel. OceanX is a nonprofit initiative of the Dalio Philanthropies, bringing science to life through captivating storytelling. Their vision is to create a deeply engaged global community of explorers, scientists, and storytellers dedicated to educating, inspiring, and protecting the oceans to drive positive change.
This program combines cutting-edge science and technology with inventive storytelling. Our expedition will bring together a select group of students and inspirational marine scientists using revolutionary technology to unlock the secrets hiding in our oceans.
This program combines cutting-edge science and technology with inventive storytelling. Our expedition will bring together a select group of students with inspirational marine scientists using revolutionary technology to unlock the secrets hiding in our oceans.
EXPLORING ONBOARD OCEANXPLORER
Welcome and Preparations
Days 1-6
Oslo, Norway and surroundings Our expedition starts in Norway, where our group will meet together in a secluded establishment. Per OceanX’s health and safety regulations, all students must spend six days in a mandatory quarantine prior to boarding the vessel. We seize this time for students to engage in a deep-dive workshop led by university teaching fellows for an introduction to the Science and Practice of Happiness. Based on the most popular freshman courses at both Harvard and Yale, we spend time bonding as a group while learning research-tested strategies for engaging with purpose and passion in the world around us. Envoys´highly-skilled facilitators conduct a deep dive into the students’ different interests, and bond through activities designed to make these explorers the best version of themselves. These sessions are coupled with expeditions to the Norwegian wilderness. While maintaining our quarantine status, we explore the spectacular landscape of deep fjords and cascading waterfalls, taking in the natural beauty and preparing ourselves mentally for our upcoming marine immersions. We use these days to prepare to join OceanX as a healthy, united group, ready to make the most of our once-in-a-lifetime experience.
OnBoard the OceanXplorer
Days 7-12
After our quarantine is complete, we have the amazing opportunity to be one of the few people in the world permitted to board the OceanXplorer, the most advanced exploration and media vessel ever built. During our six days onboard, students join a team of researchers and documentarians working to explore and observe underwater ecosystems. Capable of exploring the most unreachable places on Earth, OceanXplorer pushes the limits of discovery and broadcasts it for the world to see. The ship’s 4 labs mirror those of a state-of-the-art laboratory at leading research institutions. Their capabilities include microscopy, aquarium tanks, genetic sequencing, biofluorescent imaging, and visualization of samples from the ship’s various sensors. Thousands of feet below the surface, OceanXplorer’s deep sea vehicles work in concert to illuminate life-changing secrets hiding in the deep. Equipped with the world’s most advanced underwater cameras and Hollywood-level production capabilities, the vessel allows students to join media production experts working to reimagine the future of nature cinematography. Mixed-reality data visualization and real-time editing allows our media team to deliver short-form, episodic, and live content while at sea. The content they work with comes from cutting-edge, lowlight and high-resolution cameras carried in custom housings, including the only housing in the world capable of shooting 8k resolution at nearly 20,000 ft below the sea surface.A MISSION To explore the ocean and bring it back to the world
We will access the most unreachable parts of the ocean aboard the most advanced exploration and media vessel ever built.
Disembarking and Reflection
Day 13 -14
We dock and disembark on the coast of Norway, bidding farewell to the OceanXplorer. The group spends a final night together, contemplating what we have taken away from our unique expedition. Looking ahead with ambition and intent, we start the next chapter of our lives with a new understanding of the world, using our newlyaquired knowledge to build a new and better future.
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