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The ship and her crew, and their efforts for conservation, were the subject of the Animal Planet show Whale Wars. The MV Steve Irwin is now in the ownership of the not for profit Ship4Good. In late 2024, Ship4Good announced a new long-term partnership with marine debris prevention charity - Tangaroa Blue Foundation .
Whale Wars was a weekly American documentary-style reality television series that premiered on November 7, 2008 on the Animal Planet cable channel. The program follows Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, as he and the crew aboard their various vessels attempted to stop the killing of whales by Japanese vessels (whalers) off the coast of Antarctica.
They were detained on board the ship for two days before being transferred to the Australian customs vessel MV Oceanic Viking. [citation needed] On February 6, 2009, the MV Steve Irwin collided with the Yūshin Maru No. 2 as the activist vessel attempted to obstruct the transfer of a whale up the slipway of the factory ship Nisshin Maru.
On 20 February 2013, the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru rammed Bob Barker, MY Sam Simon, Steve Irwin and Sun Laurel multiple times in a confrontation in the Southern Ocean, north of Australia's Casey Research Station in Antarctica. [22] Bob Barker was hit on the stern, with Nisshin Maru ' s bow knocking down several of Bob Barker ' s antennas.
In January 2013, Watson relinquished captaincy of the Steve Irwin. [45] The organization and its activities to halt whaling are the focus of a reality TV series, Whale Wars, airing on Animal Planet. In 2010, Watson personally received more than $120,000 from Sea Shepherd. [46]
Steve Irwin may have died nearly two decades ago but his legacy continues to live on through his family.. On Sept. 4, 2006, the wildlife conservationist unexpectedly died following an unprovoked ...
Forever in their hearts. Bindi Irwin and Robert Irwin have paid tribute to their father, Steve Irwin, many times in the years since his heartbreaking death. Steve — a wildlife conservationist ...
Whale Wars is a weekly American documentary-style reality television series that premiered on November 7, 2008, on the Animal Planet cable channel. The program follows Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, as he and his crew aboard their various vessels attempt to deter Japanese whaling off the coast of Antarctica. [1]