A friend of mine is the Captain of the Artic Sunrise. If you are interested here is the blog. Some interesting stuff. At this latitude, a degree of longitude is only 9 miles! http://weblog.greenpeace.org/climate/
This fellow was killed when the French Secret Service blew up a Greenpeace vessel in New Zealand. The guilty people were apprehended, and the French government put an embargo on New Zealand products until the were freed--according to my friend, who was the skipper at the time. http://www.greenpeace.org/international/rainbow-warrior-bombing/greenpeace-then-and-now
Sea Shepherds are awesome.... I hate to see those beautiful whales murdered for food I mean "research". I DVR their documentary/reality show every week on TLC. The show also has some great HD video of the southern point of the earth.
