Research Vessel Heraclitus
August 2011, Barcelona: Top L-R: Captain Claus Tober, Natxo Tarres, Pablo Friedlander, Douglas Clayton-Pearson, Jason Winder, Joan Canet, Igor Tojcic, Captain Rip Hayman, Oddur; Middle Row: Oriol Tarrago Costa, Kathelin  Gray, Nick Hurt, Abigail Shapiro; Front: Myriam M'Nasri, Christine Handte, Iris Ramon Tarribo, Maybelline Laporte
Current Crew

August 2010, the Heraclitus crew in Faial Island, Azores, a quick stopover on the way to Morocco during the North Atlantic crossing..

Top Row L-R: Mo Yip (crew), Iordanis Charalampides (crew), Juan Campos Lopez (3rd Mate), Jethro Tanner (crew), Gilson Nagel (2nd Mate), Claus Tober (Captain), Joan Smith. Front Row L-R: Carlos Vindel (crew), Abigail Shapiro (crew), Rio Hahn (former captain), Christine Handte (Expedition Chief), Lyn-Li Torres Pugh (crew), Eddie Zuna (1st Mate)

July 2008, RV Heraclitus crew in Simonstown, South Africa - rebuilding the ship in Dry Dock.

Back L-R: Craig Inglis, George Blake, Michelle Hughes, Federica Chimenti, Claus Tober, Dario Sorgato. Front L-R: Eddie Zuna, Christine Handte, Tim Wade

February 5, 2008. Crew on the R/V Heraclitus at Richards Bay, South Africa

March 23, 2007, Phuket, Thailand

Back L-R: Frederik Hegeler (German), Lauren Kennedy, 3rd Mate (American), Jonah Mesnitz (American), Eddie Zuna, 1st Mate (Solomon Islands), Robert Harper (American), Michelle Lavon (American), Anna Hope (British), Craig Inglis (British), Jason Winder, 2nd Mate (British), Rafael Aisner (American).
Sitting L-R: Claus Tober, Captain (German), Federica Chimenti (Italian), Natalie Harrison (British), Christine Handte, Expedition Chief (German).

October 16, 2006 "Coral Sea to Aegean Sea Expedition", north of Cape York, Australia.

Back L-R: Robert "Rio" Hahn (Presigent: Tropic Seas Research, Inc., [Operating Company of the R/V Heraclitus] American), Adrian William Harley (Trainee, Australian), Christine Handte (Expedition Chief, German), Claus Tober (Captain, German), Jay Winder (2nd Mate, Trainee, British-Irish), Frederik Hegeler (Trainee, French-German), Paul Wise (Trainee, Australian), Rafael Aisner (Trainee, American-Peruvian).
Front L-R: Robyn Tredwell (Director of Australian Operations: Tropic Seas Research, Inc., Australian), Federica Chimenti (Trainee, Italian), Kat Taylor (Trainee, Australian), Eddie Zuna (1st Mate, Solomon Islands), Lauren Kennedy (3rd Mate, Trainee, American).