Islands visited include Gordon Rocks, Plaza Sur,Seymour, Darwin, Wolf, Roca Redonda, Albany Insel, Santagio, and Bartolme. The diving package is additional. The crew is Russian and the tour leaders and dive master are European. Arctic and Antarctic. From November to March, the ships go to the Antarctic where they are chartered by Quark Expeditions.
All cabins are outside, with windows or portholes.
Shared shower and toilet facilities are on the same deck. Deck 4 also has some cabins with private facilities and two lower berths. These are modern and comfortable oceanographic research vessels. They were built in Finland as ice-strengthened vessels. Each ship has a sauna, a laundry and zodiacs for landings, usually with one landing in the morning and one in the afternoon.