The Greenpeace vessel the MY Esperanza, back in the Southern Ocean this year to track Japanese whalers

Iceberg in the Southern Ocean

February 22th 2007. Ross Sea. Southern Ocean. Greenpeace activists onboard the MY Esperanza hold a banner calling for the end of whaling in Antarctica because of the unacceptable threat to whales and the pristine environment posed by the Japanese...

Ross Sea, Southern Ocean. The MY Esperanza in the foreground of the disabled Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru, a re-fuelling vessel and a hunter vessel tied alongside it. Fire broke out on the Nisshin Maru last Thursday and one man is still...

New Zealander Karli Thomas in front of the Greenpeace ship Esperanza. Karli is the Expedition leader on board the Esperanza in the Southern Ocean.

The Greenpeace ship Esperanza arrives in Auckland Harbour.

31 December 2005 - SOUTHERN OCEAN - On the last day of 2005 the crew of Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza fly a New Year banner, reading 'NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION - DEFEND OUR OCEANS' whilst being followed by the Yushin Maru whale catcher ship in the...

- 22 December 2005 - SOUTHERN OCEAN - Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza and her inflatables , try to hinder the shooting and eventual transfer of a minke whale by the Yushin Maru No.2 catcher ship. After two and a half hours of running the...

o2212155 - 22 December 2005 - SOUTHERN OCEAN - Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza and her inflatables , try to hinder the shooting and eventual transfer of a minke whale by the Yushin Maru No.2 catcher ship. After two and a half hours of running...