Permanent Crew Vacancies, 2013 season…seven months

Guest, Max two: No experience necessary. You do not need First aid or Survival course....just a sense of fun and prepared to work and join the team/adventure…Crew contribution, AUD$160 per day (plus $10 per dive.) for minimum 30 days or more and AUD$200 per day if you sign on for minimum two weeks to max four weeks. You need to enquire when opportunities to join ICE are available. At times we will be joined by Marine Biologists/Marine archaeologists and specialist film crew, so guest opportunities are limited.?

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Don McIntyre

57 year old Don McIntyre is one of Australias most experienced sailors, having competed in the 1990 BOC Challenge Single Handed Around the World Yacht Race ,coming second in Class, the highest placing for an Australian at the time. He then embarked on numeros Antarctic sailing Expeditions, including in 1995, living in a 2.4m X 3.6m box for a year, together alone in Antarctica, with his wife Margie, chained to rocks at Cape Dennison, the site of Sir Douglass Mawson’s Hut and an area called the Home of the Blizzard. Having been awarded an Australian Geographic Society silver medal for the Spirit of Adventure in 1993, Don and Margie were Awarded the Australian Geographic Society’s highest honour in 1996…a Gold Medal as Adventurers of the Year, the youngest to ever recieve it at that time. Their award winning documentary and best selling book “Two Below Zero” are still in demand ten years on.

In 2000 McIntyre purchased a 36m 600 tonne ” ICE” ship in Finland ( renamed” Sir Hubert Wilkins”), then brought it back across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to New Zealand for a major refit, including the installation of a helipad and a Hughes 300 helicopter, before embarking on four major voyages of discovery and exploration in Antarctica over three summer seasons all thanks to major sponsorship from DICK SMITH FOODS. Three years later, a 5 man recompression chamber and sophisticated dive support gear and Nitrox compressors were installed before setting of on a 6 month treasure hunting adventure in the Phillipines….no Gold! Then followed a successful four year tarmac rally racing campaign in a Peugeot 206 Gti 180 with some impressive results….and a few “DINGS!”

An ongoing interest in aviation has provided some great fun when time allows, flying fixed-wing “three axis”, a little helicopter time, trike” weight-shift” experience, and in 2007 McIntyre became the first person to fly an ultralight gyro-copter around Australia, a world first flight….see OzGyro WebsiteMcIntyre has been involved with skydiving, surfing, racing moto-cross and been scuba diving all his life. He formed the Short-handed Sailing Association of Australia in 1983 and went on to manage and promote the 1988 GFW Bicentenial Around Australia Yacht Race which was underwritten by McIntyre Marine Services Pty Ltd…McIntyre’s successful marine equipment importing and boat building company which was sold in 2005.In April 2008 McIntyre launched his new 15.2m steel, 40 tonne ice strengthend expedition motor-sailer “ICE”, following a three year, 50,000 man hour build in China. This new adventure ship is capable of going anywhere, has a 5000 mile range under power, carries comprehensive dive gear and it’s own Polaris Amphib flying boat for filming and exploration…..The FUN CONTINUES!!!

surfing and free-diving

other interests (some past, some present, some future) are...
*Marine Conservation *Travel *Camping *Health and Lifestyle *Yoga *Surfing *Sailing *Scuba/free-diving *Photography and the Arts *Karate *Capoeira *African Dance
...oh almost forgot... *Treasure Hunting! :)

Mark Street

HOBBIES and INTERESTS:
Australian Surf Life Saving Association Competitor in Surfboat Rowing, Warilla/Barrack Point Surf Life Saving Club, 2006 – Present
Fitness and Training (Currently studying Certificates III and IV in Personal Training)
Scuba Diving, Sky Diving, Surfing, Jet Skiing, Fishing, Motorcycles, Wake Boarding, Snow Boarding Travelling and Adventure, Yachts and boating.

CERTIFICATES:
NSW Maritime PWC/Vessel Licence
Senior First Aid
Open Water Diver Certificate
Responsible Service of Alcohol
STCW ’95
Underground Mines Rescue Brigade
Occupational Health & Safety Green Card
Surf Life Saving Australia Bronze Medallion
IRB Crew Certificate
AQTF Unit of Competency - prepare, maintain and test response equipment (OXY VIVER )
Silver Medallion IRB Driver
AQTF Unit of Competency - undertake a rescue operation in a small power craft

MELISSA VAN DER WALT

QUALIFICATIONS
RYA Yachtmaster Offshore/ VHF Radio License
STCW 95/ RYA Powerboat Level 2
Sunsail Diesel engine Course
MCA Approved engine course (AEC)
MCA OOW Navigation and Radar
MCA OOW General Ships Knowledge
GMDSS/ Advanced Firefighting
Advanced Sea Survival
Medical First Aid

QUALITIES
Team player/ Fast learner/ Ability to work under pressure/ A “Nothing Can Get to me” Attitude

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS
Adventure, working on the sea, swimming, reading and writing

Jane Zhou

Experience:

- Work for Seahorse Yachts last six years (builders of ICE) as english interpreter/project manager/accounts and worked on ICE during the build process.
- Comes from a very traditional Chinese family, 30 year old but still lives at home with mum!!
- Has only learnt to swim in the last year and is now doing Padi open water SCUBA ticket.
- Builds web sites including the one you are reading.

Carrie Cojocari

Experience:
- some live aboard experience
- kick-ass administrator
- decent galley cook
- amateur photographer
- travel/adventure writer

Certifications:
- CYA Basic Cruising Standard
- Pleasure Craft Operators Certificate
- PADI Open water
- valid CPR & AED certificate from St. Johns Ambulance