sea shepherd

Avoiding aft deck obstacles to land after an endangered Vaquita survey:

Had another opportunity for a change of view:

Here's a short unedited clip show-casing Sea Shepherd's M/V Sharpie on patrol. The main reason it was not used was due to too many crew on deck. You can see the engineers hanging out on the aft deck, the bosun tidying up lines, the first officer at the bow, the captain up in the fly deck driving...

Here's an example of using the DJI Matrice 100 dual battery setup with a 640 FLIR cam for anti-poaching purposes. I flew this mission from Sea Shepherd's M/V Farley Mowat on Operation Milagro. What you are seeing are cartel-supported fishermen retrieving their illegally set totoaba (a sea bass)...

Just a comment on something I was thinking about today: For every outstanding published video with drone clips, there's much more decent unused footage that you never see. The takes that didn't take. I have hours of fun video that were never used, but were still interesting to some degree. As a...

Capturing the sunset over Sweetings Cay in the Bahamas after delivering and building a solar charging system to the community devastated by hurricane Dorian:

In this video I'm chasing a German research vessel as it steams away from us, over 7km out from the home point. They were also conducting ocean plastics research. Location: North Pacific Gyre, otherwise known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

This is one of my favorite photos. Taken with my Mavic pro 2. Any guesses where? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/6836/OiRsRe.jpg

Here's a brief aerial video I took of Sea Shepherd's M/V John Paul DeJoria on her way to deliver hurricane relief supplies to the Bahamas in the fall of 2019. I'm on starboard side below the bridge.

We still need qualified and skilled volunteer drone operators for our 2020 campaign: Requirements: Passion for saving our oceans and proven skills flying from moving ships. Location: North Pacific Gyre NE of Hawaii. Time: May through July, 3 week campaigns. Birth, food, and drones are provided...

Here are a few clips of some of my drone flights in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch last summer. We used drones to help locate marine debris while in the gyre, over 100 flights. The ship was the S/V Kwai and the organization is Ocean Voyages Institute, Ocean Voyages Institute. We removed over 40...