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Whalers Caught In Protected World Heritage Area

By On January 11, 2012

With Christmas Island battling a spill of phosphate and fuel oil making national headlines some of the leading environmentalists are equally disturbed by illegal fishing in the Australia’s protected marine World [...]

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Ever dreamed of owning a jetpack?

By On August 24, 2011

Have you ever dreamed of owning a JetPack? Maybe gCaptain’s editors have watched one too many James Bond movies but our answer is yes. Jetpack technology has existed for decades [...]

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When the hunters become the hunted: Sea Shepherd outruns Somali pirates

By On May 12, 2011

The notorious Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s flagship, the Steve Irwin, ran the gauntlet of Somali pirates recently as the ship and crew transited the Gulf of Aden to the Red [...]

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Did Sea Shepherd harassment put Japanese whaling on hold?

By On February 16, 2011

According to a report in the Japan Real Time Report blog, Japanese Whale hunting in the Southern Ocean have been on hold since February 10 due to Sea Shepherds harassment. [...]

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Sea Shepard Closes In On Whalers

By On January 1, 2011

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s fleet has found the illegal Japanese whaling vessels on the last day of the calendar year. In the vastness of the Southern Ocean, Sea Shepherd’s ships [...]

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10 Lessons Learned From Sea Shepherd

By On January 8, 2010

gCaptain mariners have been critical of Captain Paul Watson and his crew of non-professional mariners, stars of the reality TV show Whale Wars. Most of the comments posted to gCaptain’s [...]

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Sea Shepherd Unveils New Weapon to Fight Whale Hunters

By On October 21, 2009

WOW, this should be interesting… According to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society website, the Japanese whale hunters hunters have acquired the futuristic, ultra high-speed trimaran the Ady Gil, formerly known [...]

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“A Most Dangerous Precedent” Has Been Set With MS Steve Irwin

By On January 20, 2009

Fellow blogger D. Peter Boucher of Nautical Log brings us a post regarding the controversial anti-whaling vessel MS Steve Irwin.  The Nautical Log gives these opinions on the MS Steve [...]

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An Ugly Reality – Whale Wars, Hunting The Whale Hunters

By On November 11, 2008

Love them or hate them, the crew of the Sea Shepard are now television stars. . You can find gCaptain’s Sea Shepard articles from last year’s hunt HERE. The official [...]

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Whaling Grounds, Tactics Heating Up

By On March 9, 2008

  Activists from the Sea Shepherd group, Ralph Lowe (L) and former Dutch police officer Laurens de Groot, throw bottles at the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru from their vessel, [...]

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Mayhem on the High Seas

By On March 7, 2008

The Whaling – Conservation controversy in the Southern Ocean has escalated to violence. Earlier today it appears that the Japanese Coast Guard fired on The Sea Shepard’s vessel Steve Irwin, [...]

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Activists Held Hostage By Whalers

By On January 15, 2008

In breaking news from the Antarctic Japanese whalers have taken two activists hostage after they boarded the whaling ship Yushin Maru. The BBC tells us; The Sea Shepherd campaign group [...]

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