Every Sea Shepherd campaign is a story—but behind that story are countless smaller ones playing out across the ship each day - each vital for the ship and the mission. In this video, we follow three crew members through their stories today—the usually quiet moments that keep the mission alive.
Stopping illegal activity at sea is something we’ve done for decades. If it’s whaling, we block it. If it’s drift nets, we pull them. If it’s illegal fishing vessels, we track and expose them until they’re cut off from fuel and ports. But what happens when the threat isn’t illegal? ...
The Allankay has been down in the Southern Ocean for almost 2 weeks now, documenting the contrast of pristine waters and whales, to the towering and monstrous krill super trawlers. Even though this is our third year, this year, going later in the year and deeper into the krill trawling ...
Welcome to the front lines of the fight against these krill super trawlers - the true monsters of the Antarctic, stealing food from the mouths of the populations of whales still recovering from decades of commercial whaling. Today, Alice takes you on board one of the Allankay's boats and up ...
It's time for the next update from Alice and the rest of the crew on the Allankay. Having already crossed the Roaring 40s, Furious 50s and Screaming 60s, seen icebergs and amazing wildlife, all the while being pummeled by intense weather, it's a wakeup call to realize that this is ...
At the moment, we have been at sea for nearly three weeks, and now we are getting closer to Ushuaia every day, with less than one thousand nautical miles to go. In Ushuaia, we will pick up eleven additional crew members and have fresh produce delivered for the galley. In ...
What does it take to make the factory deck of a former toothfish longliner into inhabitable sleeping quarters, a media office and a lounge for the crew? That's a long and oddly specific question, but we're happy to answer in the form of a video - here's bit of timelapse ...
Antarctica This week has been a memorable one, crossing both the International Date Line—giving us the rare experience of two Sundays in a row—and the infamous Furious 50s. All of it captured by our onboard photographer, Alice Bacou, who is also tasked with being your guide throughout this campaign. Expect ...
Antarctica Defense Campaign! It's that time of year again, and the Allankay and the amazing crew on board are headed south to confront the krill super trawlers sucking the life out of the otherwise pristine Southern Ocean. But this time will be different. We're going later in the season, to ...