He befriended merchant Jan Huygen van Linschoten, who apparently relied on some of Pomp's information for his book Itinerario (1596).
He had joined a five-ship Dutch expedition from Rotterdam under admiral Jacques Mahu, with the primary aim of obtaining East Indian spices, by sailing around the southern tip of South America and across the Pacific.
[citation needed] The Blijde Boodschap was so short of supplies that it entered the port of Valparaíso (present-day Chile) in mid-November 1599, where it was captured by Spanish colonists, who controlled this territory.
He sailed in 1606 aboard an Eastindiaman belonging to the Dutch East India Company, but was not recorded as surviving the home voyage.
In 2013, the Netherlands Antarctic research facility was christened Dirck Gerritsz Laboratory, with the four mobile container labs named Geloof (Faith), Hoop (Hope), Liefde (Love) and Blijde Boodschap (translated officially as Annunciation).