construction of the new Polarstern at AWI, has been pursuing the goal of providing polar and marine research with a modern, powerful and sustainable ship and the legendary Polarstern with „a more than worthy [...] / A lf re d- W eg en er -I ns ti tu t Aerospace engineer Detlef Wilde has been heading the new Polarstern construction project at the Alfred Wegener Institute - Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research [...] development of deep-sea robots. In 2017, this gave him the opportunity to participate himself in a Polarstern mission to the Arctic. As Airbus project manager, he tested the Viator lander-crawler system of