Mr. Grzyb is a yacht captain and marine rescue instructor as well as a member of the prestigious organization „K38 Water Safety” which trains rescue teams and uniformed services on marine rescue and safety procedures. He has managed to cross 50,000 nautical miles and reached place #19 on  „The most travelled man in the world” list.

He has visited 190 countries, and he focuses on searching for and travelling to places that are difficult from a logistic, political or geographical point of view. He is one of the very few people in the world who has been allowed to make ham radio contacts from the Republic of North Korea.

Mr. Grzyb is an organizer of ham radio expeditions with humanitarian goals for small communities living in such places as Solomon islands, Temotu, Kanton Island (Kiribati), Cocos Island, Nigeria and Niger. He also established the Rebel DX Association, uniting ham radio travellers.

Dominik managed to land at Bouvet Island in 2001.

Ham radio callsign: 3Z9DX

Born in the Bieszczady Mountains, southeast of Poland, Mr. Strzyzewski established and owns the regional tourist portal www.bieszczady.pl. Since 2012, his Facebook fanpage, facebook.com/bieszczady, has gathered over 140k fans. He is a journalist, photographer, and author of numerous publications regarding Bieszczady as well as an experienced traveller and ham radio operator. He cooperates with movie makers such as the director of „The Chronicles of Narnia” by Andrew Adamson, produced by Mark Johnson, the producers of HBO’s TV series „The Pack”, and the creators of the movie „The Border” by Wojciech Kacperski, shot by the Oscar’s nominee Łukasz Żal („Ida”). Stanisław’s photos and coverage of an expedition to Antipodes Island hit The National Geographic Poland. He is a great admirer of photography, long distance radio contacts and everything that regards the natural environment and its exploring. The following are expeditions he participated in in recent years:

• 2009 – organizer of ham radio expedition to Easter Island,
• 2009 – participant of ham radio expedition to Lord Howe Island (Australia),
• 2011 – organizer of expedition to Arctic island of Jan Mayen (Norway),
• 2016 – co-organizer and participant of the very first civil expedition to Antipodes Island (New Zealand’s subantarctic) conducted by the Department of Conservation of New Zealand.

Stanisław has visited Svalbard, Chilean and Argentinian Patagonia, Malaysia, Borneo, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Singapore and most European countries. He most wants to visit the subantarctic archipelago of Heard and McDonalds (Australia).

Ham radio callsign: SQ8X

In July 2017, Stanisław was invited to Polish Radio 3 and was a guest on one of their travellers’ programmes (listen in Polish here › ). He was also invited by Polsat News to tell more about the Bouvet Island Expedition.

See Stanisław’s portfolio here ›

He is a sport pilot, worldwide traveller and ham radio operator. He specializes in Morse code.

He managed to visit over 130 countries so far.

Ham radio callsign: SP3DOI

He’s yet another extraordinary person to join our team. He is a legendary man. He is a Serbian social activist for democratic changes in Serbia. He was one of establishers of an organization called „The Resistance” which helped to begin collapse of Slobodan Milošević’s dictatorship and started a period of democratic revolution over the Balkans. He was honoured with the MTV „Free Your Mind” award in 2000 for his involvement in „The Resistance” and his civil attitude. He is often called „Serbian Wałęsa” and he has been introduced in a number of documentaries (eg. „Face of revolutions” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mB2Xg1zlyQ / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnfuDE_Wmo0). He is still recognized as hero of younger generation of the Serbs. Today, Branko is a vivid traveller and ham radio operator focusing on Morse code. We are happy this brave and colorful character will become an integral and irreplaceable part of our expedition.

Ham radio callsign: YU4DX

Frans lives on the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Lucia. He is an experienced traveller and qualified ham radio operator. He specializes in radio digital modes. Mr. van Santbrink is a professional at computer networks. His IT knowledge will be crucial during our expedition in terms of wireless communication and wireless database management.

Ham radio callsign: J69DS