Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

I feel like we're able to discuss and share.

And in fact, maybe I should look for a voice note on one of the extra scoops from, uh, maybe one of the captains at Seaspiracy again or, um, Sea Shepherd.

You know, the ones that do all the things for that.

We should definitely try and get some more behind-the-scenes information.

So he left, and then he was walking along the seafront at the Friday Harbour, and he saw that a place was closed.

It's called the Sea Shepherds, they're a conservationist fleet.

And it was all closed up, and he thought, well, that's odd, I didn't think they were closed, they'd gone.

And then he walked past again a few days later, and then it was there.

But then after that, you have generally what you have is cartel that move this stuff around the world that then bribe local officials and make it, they stuff containers full of these animal products or animals themselves and then ship them off all around the world.

And Having worked at sea, I did a lot of work with Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and, you know, you're in direct conflict with fishermen and fishing vessels or whaling vessels out in the open ocean where there is no jurisdiction.

Nobody can come and help us.

Nobody has jurisdiction even if they wanted to come and help us.

So that was part of the qualification was to do the most obvious crossing would be across the Rio from Cape Town, which is about 5,000 miles if you add a few.

So it's never a straight line, so you'll get your miles.

And then that kind of got me into working with Sea Shepherd on their vessels for the marine conservation.

That's how I ended up there because I had the qualifications as a mariner.

We've got offshoots like, um, Yeah, doing actions at sea, but with violence, which Greenpeace won't accept.

Sea Shepherd.

But Greenpeace kind of led the way on climate change.

We launched the campaign on climate change on the White House lawn with Al Gore and the global CEOs of Swiss Reinsurance and Munich Reinsurance, who in 1994 knew that their businesses potentially will be devastated, as they will this winter, by...

Mm-hmm.

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Captain Alexis thought it could possibly be some type of scientific research vessel.

Somebody else thought it was the whaling ship the Sea Shepherd.

So nobody really knew [laughs] what it was.

They could just see this large blue vessel sitting around two miles away from them.

Preen launched torpedoes at the convoy ships, scoring at least one successful hit.

On March 7th, Preen lived out the wildest fantasy of Sea Shepherd activists and torpedoed a large whale factory ship of over 20,000 tons, crippling the vessel permanently.

The convoy's escorts, which included the British destroyers HMS Wolverine and HMS Verity, along with two corvettes, HMS Camellia and HMS Arbutus, reacted swiftly to the threat.

Just after midnight going into March 8th, the British escorts began a fierce counterattack.

For people listening at home, what's something your normal Joe or Jenny listening can do to help? What are some other...

I quite like Sea Shepherd.

Who are some other people you'd recommend... to follow or support? And what can a normal person living in the city, what can they do? Control, you know, don't, nudity a cat would be one, but what else can they do sitting from the city that can help

change things? Yeah, so you're right.

That's between July to September.

But thousands of traps are still set, and the conservation organization Sea Shepherd has been working with the Greek authorities to spot, identify, and then confiscate those illegal traps.

Jason Montiel has been out this summer with their vessel, the Conrad, and its crew.

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The initial goal is to protect the octopus from overfishing.

Uh, if the octopus get overfished in this area, they can be overfished in the whole Greece and the whole world, and that will have a huge impact in the food ecosystem of the oceans and then later to us as well, like removing any species from the marine ecosystem.

That was Lina from Sea Shepherd talking to Jason Montiel.

One of the things that links what we heard about going on in the Mediterranean to here in the UK is that so much of our shellfish and so much of the octopus that we catch will be going to the Mediterranean.