"The Steve has conducted 18 campaigns during 11 years of service with Sea Shepherd in defence of the world’s oceans; from protecting pilot whales in the Faroes, bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean, and humpback whales off the Kimberley coast, to safeguarding one of the last intact marine ecosystems on the planet in the Great Australian Bight (knocking out BP and Chevron). The Steve helped shut down six illegal Chinese drift-netters in the South Indian Ocean as well as the arrest of six illegal toothfish poachers in the Southern Ocean. Recently, the Steve sailed to the Great Barrier Reef in opposition of the Adani coal mine.

Not least, the Steve played a pivotal role in nine Antarctic Whale Defence Campaigns in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary helping to save over 6,000 whales from slaughter by the illegal Japanese whaling fleet.

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