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6 December 2006: World's Aquarium
Images from the Mexico leg »



29 November 2006: Mexico underwater beauty
Background images from the West coast of Mexico »



11 September 2006: The Pacific
Holy calamity scream insanity - the yellow thing in action »

Yellow thing

14 August 2006: Philippines
Underwater images from the Philippines. »

Philippines slides.

24 June 2006: The Red Sea
Above and below »

Red Sea slides.

12 May 2006: Tugging tuna
Close up and personal with tow cages and tuna



12 May 2006: Marine treasures of the Azores
Amazing images from above and below the ocean



10 April 2006: Wildlife off the coast of West Africa
Animals galore »



8 April 2006: Helicopters and pirate ships
Hughie in the Heli »



6 April 2006: Return of the Zombie Ships
We meet the crewmen »



29 March 2006: Happiness
The Zombie Ships of West Africa »



29 March 2006: Partial Solar Eclipse
Seen from the Esperanza, in Conakry, Guinea »



28 March 2006: Pirate Fishing Vessel Arrested
Fishing illegally 60 miles west of Guinea »



27 March 2006: Pirate Fishing in West Africa
Stealing fish to feed Europe »



01 March 2006: Stolen Fish
Catching someone else's tuna



21 January 2006: We're going up
The Southern Ocean from a helicopter



05 January 2006: Whaling and protest resumes
A new year in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.



30 December 2005: Unsung heroes of the engine room
Behind the scenes in the engine room of the Esperanza.



22 December 2005: Bearing Witness
Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza attempt to stop the killing of a minke whale by the Yushin Maru No.2 catcher ship.



21 December 2005: Finding the whaling fleet
Greenpeace makes first contact with the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean. Activists bear witness to the slaughter of minke whales and disrupt the so called "scientific research" activities.



December 2005: Part Sea, part sky
Albatross and petrel slideshow



December 2005: Antarctic sculpture park
Southern Ocean Iceberg slideshow



Gulf of California - the World's Aquarium

The Gulf of California in Mexico was named the "World’s Aquarium" by Jacques Cousteau because of its rich marine life. The Esperanza sails the Gulf of California to highlight the threats to this marine life.

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Fiji - Somo Somo bay and surrounds

Traditional fishing in the Pacific Islands. With 70 per cent of the world's fisheries fully exploited, overexploited or depleted, we must protect the Pacific against increasing numbers of foreign industrial fishing vessels and pirate fishers.

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Deep sea life

View some of the weird and wonderful creatures that live deep below the surface of the ocean.

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Virtual deep sea tour

Learn more about how our deep seas are under threat from bottom trawling.

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Philippines oil spill

Damage caused by the oil slick from the sunken Petron-chartered single hull vessel oil tanker in Nueva Valencia, Guimaras Island, Philippines. The tanker sank on Friday 11th August spilling 2.1 million litres of fuel oil causing a huge slick. Greenpeace called on the Philippine government to hold oil firm Petron and its partners accountable for damages to the environment and people’s livelihoods resulting from the worst oil spill in Philippine history.

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