Vessel and itinerary
Cruise and route
Ship metadata is taken from the operator's published profile and IMO records; itinerary and current location are taken from the operator's voyage page and port authority statements. Discrepancies between sources are noted on individual ports.
- Vessel name
- MV Hondius
- Operator
- Oceanwide Expeditions
- IMO
- 9817330
- Length
- 107.6 m
- Passengers
- 88
- Crew
- 61
- Departed
- Apr 1, 2026
- Scheduled return
- May 10, 2026
- Current status
- Positioned off Granadilla, Tenerife during the May 9 disembarkation window after leaving Cape Verde on May 6 (three medevacs to the Netherlands that day). Spain's plan remains anchored operations: assess passengers and crew on board, then move people only via controlled small-boat/air transfer for quarantine or repatriation, without routine contact between evacuees and the local public.
Itinerary
Itinerary
OSM · grayscale- 01Ushuaia · ArgentinaArrival TBD · Dep Apr 1, 2026Departure port. Ship had been based here since November 16, 2025 conducting Antarctic voyages. Investigators are looking at potential ANDV exposure before boarding — the deceased Dutch couple had also travelled through Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay before embarking.
- 02South Georgia · British Overseas TerritoryArrival TBD
- 03South Sandwich Islands · British Overseas TerritoryArrival TBD
- 04Tristan da Cunha · British Overseas TerritoryArrival TBD
- 05Saint Helena · British Overseas TerritoryArr Apr 24, 2026Body of the first deceased Dutch passenger was disembarked here on April 24. His wife flew onward to South Africa.
- 06Ascension Island · British Overseas TerritoryArrival TBD · Dep Apr 27, 2026British male passenger medically evacuated to South Africa from here on April 27.
- 07Praia (anchored offshore) · Cape VerdeArr May 3, 2026 · Dep May 6, 2026Cape Verde declined to permit docking. On May 6, three patients were transferred by ambulance to Praia airport and airlifted to the Netherlands aboard two specialised medical aircraft.
- 08Granadilla, Tenerife anchorage · Spain — Canary IslandsArr May 9, 2026Operational window May 9 (local midday): anchor off Granadilla for the Spanish-led medical and repatriation plan — no normal berthing; transfers by launch to shore cordons/airport rotations per May 7–9 government briefings.
Itinerary compiled from Oceanwide Expeditions' press timeline, ECDC assessment, El País voyage reconstruction, BBC and Le Monde reporting, and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs medical-evacuation statement. Latitudes and longitudes are approximate centers of each port or anchorage.