MEET THE KCP LEADERSHIP TEAM
With more than 80 years combined experience in the Kimberley, the KCP team are the unparalleled leaders for pilotage, safe navigation and voyage planning throughout the region. Their vast local knowledge of the Kimberley waterways, coastline, archipelagos, tides, currents, anchorages, and cultural and historical sites is second to none. The KCP team will ensure that your voyage through the Kimberley encompasses the most spectacular of locations with the highest level of safety.
CAPTAIN BRAD BENBOW
Captain Brad Benbow is a Master Mariner (Unlimited) with 16 years of seagoing experience in the Kimberley and northwest of Western Australia. Brad has extensive experience in the cruise industry in the Kimberley, including full responsibility for all aspects of onboard and maritime operations on vessels with up to 20 crew. Brad also has managed and been responsible for many years of on-board helicopter operations, providing the ultimate expedition vessel experiences.
Brad's cruise experience has seen him Master luxury cruise vessels throughout Western Australia, annual Australian circumnavigations as well as many international voyages also.
Brad is very experienced in voyage planning and itinerary development, as well as managing national and international government logistics, regulations and approvals.
Brad is also a qualified and registered Marine Pilot for the northwest, and also works in collaboration with West Coast Pilots.
CAPTAIN CRAIG BRENT-WHITE
Captain Craig Brent-White is a Master Mariner (Unlimited) and Marine Pilot and well known Kimberley identity, with more than 35 years of experience on vessels from 25m to 330m in the Kimberley. Craig first visited the Kimberley in 1967, and then went on to spend a decade in the Broome pearling industry, seven years commercially fishing for Barramundi, followed by 25 years in the oil and gas industry, towing semisubmersible oil rigs across Australia, New Zealand and Asia. Alongside those pursuits, Craig piloted cruise ships through the Kimberley, and has been instrumental in developing the Kimberley cruise industry.
Craig brought the first large expedition cruise ship into the Kimberley in 1990, and the passengers included some of the most experienced expedition travellers in the world. Their responses were that it was one of the best experiences they'd ever had, on par with the most iconic and beautiful wilderness areas of the world. That trip cemented the attraction for Kimberley cruising. Since then, Craig has provided voyage planning and pilotage to many of the world's leading cruise companies, and some of the largest cruise ships, to safely experience the very best of the Kimberley. Craig's knowledge of the Kimberley region, its waterways, islands, nature, culture and history is unparalleled.
CAPTAIN GREG DUNN
Captain Greg Dunn is a Master Mariner (Unlimited) and Marine Pilot with 25 years of seagoing experience on Expedition Passenger Vessels, Seismic Ships and some of the worlds largest private motor yachts. At the age of 29 Greg gained his first command and began his first circumnavigation which would be the start of his 16 year career as a Ship Master exploring many of the world's most remote marine environments and untouched cultures.
Arriving into Western Australia’s Kimberley region in 2001, Greg worked on Australia’s premier luxury expedition ships for over 10 years and has extensive and detailed knowledge of the Kimberley and Northern Australia. Having been responsible for thousands of passenger's cruises into the Kimberley, he has the skills to ensure safe navigation of the ship, and also the safe land and sea expeditions in the tender craft. Greg can greatly assist Masters and Expedition leaders in providing a safe, enjoyable and memorable experience.
Since January 2023, Greg has been involved with pilotage at the Koolan Island iron ore mine in the southern Kimberley region in addition to his pilotage of cruise vessels.