Alex is from Toronto, about as far away from any of Canada’s oceans as is physically possible. He does however live near a very large lake. After over twenty years of working in Toronto’s restaurant industry, he set out in 2005 for his first season in the Antarctic on the Lyubov Orlova as a barman/Zodiac driver. After this adventure, he decided to commit himself full-time to life at sea, exploring the polar regions.
After fifteen seasons in the Antarctic and fourteen in the Arctic, he has sailed on seventeen different ships—including the icebreakers, Kapitan Kalebnikov, and The Fifty Years of Victory, and several adventure ships.
He has travelled to the Antarctic Peninsula more than 150 times including Snow Hill, the Falklands, South Georgia, and south of the Antarctic Circle. His Arctic voyages have included the North Pole, Franz Josef Land, the Canadian High Arctic, the fabled Northwest Passage, Norway, Iceland, Greenland, and Svalbard.
Alex is happiest driving Zodiacs in any kind of weather.