We're almost back to Cape Town, almost back to land.  We're maybe 800 miles south of the southern tip of Africa, making roughly 10 knots an hour in remarkably easy seas so far: we've had the good fortune of transiting across a high pressure zone.  We'... Read more >

Well, the time has come to leave the whaling grounds and head homeward. We left the Nisshin Maru and her hunters a few days ago and headed south into the ice towards Antarctica, the white continent, to take in the wonders of the waters and the seasca... Read more >

For the past several days, since the African Queen had the harpoon fired over her and the rope came down into the boat, the fleet has broken up and the mothership has picked up and run around erratically, as we've seen before. We have not had to launc... Read more >

Yesterday, the Billy G and the big orange unnamed boat (that's another story there) launched in support of something the Sunrise wanted to try on the mothership during a transfer. I helped 'em launch from the deck then went to work on doing a little ... Read more >

When I last wrote, we were a few days into a heavy rotation of driving off the bows of the catchers to thwart the hunt.  Then, right after I sent the last update and went to bed, some rather strange events happened in the "night." (If I didn't mention... Read more >

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The last two days have been horrific down here; yesterday evening we were trying to hold off the harpooner in very, very rough seas, heading at nearly 20 knots directly into the wind. We were in the upper ranges ...

An update from Nathan

I drove the second shift of the day (so far we split the day between two groups of driver and crews); each shift thwarted the hunter for several hours until they finally exhausted the whale to the point that it was almost constant... Read more >

Hi All,

It sounds like Nathan and the crews of the Esperanza and the Arctic Sunrise are keeping the whaling fleet on the run.  This is the first time we've had enough speed to prevent the whalers from losing us, and it is having a dramatic impact on ... Read more >

An update from Nathan. 

Today, for me personally, was one of the greatest days I've ever had.

In my first blog post I wrote about how, 17 years ago, seeing footage from the first anti-whaling campaign led me into Greenpeace and, ultimately, to my invo... Read more >