Team
Capt. Raymond Jourdain
Fully licensed Class “A” pilot (Laurentian Pilotage Authority). Master in command for 9 years on General cargo vessels. Ice advising in the Gulf St. Lawrence and Arctic since 1984. Averaging 65 days per year on bulk carriers, tankers and cruise ship of all sizes. Accredited polar ice navigator.
Capt. Sylvain Desgagnés
Accredited polar ice navigator.
Capt. Christian Saint-Arnaud
Ice navigator in the Arctic since 2011 on general cargo for the supply of Inuit villages and remote mines. He joined our ice pilot team in the gulf of St-Lawrence in 2016, working mostly on bulk carriers and tankers of all sizes. Accredited polar ice navigator.
Capt. Denis Otis
Accredited ICE ADVISOR and DOCKING PILOT
Capt. Denis Belanger
Master Mariner. Master in command for 3 years on cargo vessels. Experienced in ice infested waters in the Arctic and gulf of St-Lawrence. Joined the ice advising team in January 2017.
Capt. Sylvain Bertrand
Master on Canadian Coast Guard Icebreakers until 2013 working in the Gulf & River Of St Lawrence and Arctic. Since 2014 Ice pilot in the Gulf St Lawrence and Arctic on Cruise Ships, cargo vessels and tankers of all sizes. He on occasion will take commands of an Icebreaker. Accredited polar ice navigator.
Captain Mathias Thivierge-Fillion
Accredited ICE Advisor
Captain Catherine Hétu
Accredited ICE Advisor
Captain Frederick Mercier
At a young age, following a 6-year continuous voyage around the world where diving and sailing were the focus of his living, Frederick Mercier decided to turn to maritime shipping professionally. Always seeking well thought out adventures and breathtaking scenery, M. Mercier quickly enamored the remote areas of Canada and most particularly the spectacular great white scenes of ice. Continuously navigating the Canadian Arctic and managing an Ice Officer position at the Canadian Coast Guard, Frederick Mercier has accumulated valuable ice navigating experience. All aboard a safe and enjoyable ice transit!
Captain Gabriel Blanchet
Accredited ICE Advisor
Captain Sylvain Dubé
Master mariner certificate, work as ice advisor since 2006 and worked with Canadian Coast Guard on icebreaker as well for 8 years on the St-Lawrence River, Gulf of St-Lawrence and the Canadian Arctic up to TANQUARY FJORD (81*25’N).
Docking pilot in Port-Cartier QC on ships up to capesize after more than 17 years and still active as docking pilot in 8 different ports of Canadian east coast.
Also worked as captain on ferries in the estuary of the St-Lawrence in difficult ice conditions.