The Sea Shepherd flagship ‘Steve Irwin’ was shadowed by a Japanese security vessel as it escorted the badly damaged Brigitte Bardot to Fremantle for repairs, the anti-whaling group says.

But times were changing: Whale populations in the North Atlantic had declined, forcing whaling ships to head to more distant waters, first plundering the rich pickings off the South American coast ...

It's named for the Niantic, a whaling vessel that was run aground in San Francisco and turned into a bar and hotel. The idea was that they wanted to highlight cool historical and local facts via ...

Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has announced it will not intercept Japanese vessels in the Southern Ocean this season. The anti-whaling group's ships have confronted ships off Antarctica each ...

The Kangei Maru has succeeded the world's only other whaling mother ship, the Nisshin Maru. Rather than carving up the carcasses on deck, often in bad weather, the workers will now be able to ...

The Japanese arrest and extradition request stemmed from a 2010 incident in the Antarctic in which Watson was accused of having damaged a whaling vessel with explosives. Watson has called the ...