Sam Simon (ship)

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Sam Simon
Sea Shepherd Sam Simon PB.JPG
Ship data
flag NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands

AustraliaAustralia Australia Tuvalu Japan
TuvaluTuvalu 
JapanJapan 

other ship names
  • New Atlantis
  • Seifu Maru
Ship type Research ship
home port Rotterdam
Owner Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Shipyard Tokyo IHI Shipyard
Commissioning 1993
reactivation 2012
Ship dimensions and crew
length
56 m ( Lüa )
width 9.8 m
Draft Max. 4.5 m
displacement 720 GT
 
crew Max. 30th
Machine system
Top
speed 		15 kn (28 km / h)
propeller 1
Others
Registration
numbers 		IMO no. 9053452

The Sam Simon is a Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ship . In 2012, the former Japanese research vessel was added to the fleet.

Construction and use as a Japanese research ship

The ship, built in 1993, served as Seifū-maru ( 清風 丸 , "fresh breeze") in researching ocean currents for Japan's North Pacific whaling program and was owned by the Maizuru Marine Observatory of the Japan Meteorological Agency . In 2010 it was decommissioned and remained in the port of Shimonoseki .

Acquired by Sea Shepherd

On June 21, 2012, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society announced that Sam Simon's donation had enabled them to purchase another ship. The Sam Simon was bought by Sea Shepherd in 2012 through the US company New Atlantis . The Japanese government was unaware of who it had sold the ship to. It was first renamed New Atlantis and completely overhauled in dry dock in Brisbane , Queensland , before it was announced on December 10, 2012 in Hobart , Tasmania that the ship was the Sam Simon . It was open to the public for three days before it leaked as part of Operation Zero Tolerance against Japanese whalers.

The ship was named after the American television producer and Sea Shepherd supporter Sam Simon , who had been a member of the international advisory board since December 5, 2011.

Use at Sea Shepherd

2013

Sea Shepherd's first campaign for Sam Simon was Sea Shepherd's ninth Antarctic whale defense campaign, Operation Zero Tolerance . On January 8, 2012, it was announced at a press conference that Sea Shepherd Australia would lead the Antarctic Campaign for the first time because Sea Shepherd USA was banned from participating in the campaign due to legal proceedings in the USA. Thus, the campaign was led not by Captain Paul Watson, but by previous Senator Bob Brown and Sea Shepherd Australia Director Jeff Hansen. The Sam Simon , together with the other Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ships Steve Irwin , Bob Barker and Brigitte Bardot , set sail from Hobart for the Southern Ocean in early 2013 to track down the Japanese whaling fleet and to disrupt its activities as much as possible. On February 7, 2013 the crew of the Sam Simon managed to track down the tanker of the Japanese whaling fleet Sun Laurel and thus cut off the fuel supply for the whaling fleet. A week later, the Bob Barker was able to catch up with the factory ship of the whaling fleet and thus stop all whaling activities. Sea Shepherd ships Bob Barker , Steve Irwin and Sam Simon successfully prevented the illegal refueling of the Nisshin Maru by the Sun Laurel by placing the ships between the twice as large tanker and the three times as large factory ship, making refueling impossible did. The Sea Shepherd ships were rammed several times by the Nisshin Maru .

The Sam Simon in December 2012 in Hobart.

After the Sam Simon was partially badly damaged during Operation Zero Tolerance, volunteers repaired the ship over the spring and summer of 2013 in Williamstown, Victoria . Furthermore, the boat deck and the aft deck were rebuilt and the ship was given a new coat of paint. The Sam Simon visited Sydney in early September and was later prepared for the next Antarctic campaign.

2014

On December 18, 2013, the Sam Simon cast off with her sister ships Bob Barker and Steve Irwin from Sea Shepherd's southern base of operations in Williamstown. Under the command of Captain Adam Meyerson, the Sam Simon embarked on her second Antarctic whale defense campaign, Operation Relentless . After 81 days on the high seas, the Sam Simon returned to Williamstown on March 8, 2014 after having covered 15,000 nautical miles. During this time, the Sam Simon blocked a harpoon ship, helped block the factory ship and acted as a refueling ship for the other Sea Shepherd ships in Antarctica, enabling the campaign to be extended. During Operation Relentless, the Sea Shepherd was able to save 784 of 1035 whales. This was the third worst whaling year for the Japanese whaling fleet since Sea Shepherd's Antarctic campaigns began.

Between April and June 2014, the Sam Simon was in the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney, as part of the whale exhibition. In the summer of 2014, the boat deck and the interior of the ship were rebuilt for future campaigns. In the fall, the Sam Simon was prepared in Williamstown and Wellington for the next Antarctic campaign, Operation Icefish .

2015

On September 16, 2014, Sea Shepherd announced its 11th Antarctic campaign, Operation Icefish . The aim of the campaign was to locate a group of six antarctic cod poachers, called "Bandit 6" by Sea Shepherd, to stop their operations and bring the poachers to justice. Thereupon, on December 3rd, the Bob Barker ran under the command of Peter Hammarstedt from Hobart , Australia and on December 8th, the Sam Simon under the command of Sid Chakravarty from Wellington , New Zealand into the Southern Ocean .

The Sam Simon while preparing for Operation Icefish in Wellington.

A few days after the start of the campaign, the Bob Barker managed to track down the Thunder . While the Bob Barker was chasing the poaching ship, the Sam Simon hauled in the three gillnets that were left behind by the Thunder and were over 72,000 meters in length. After the Sam Simon had hauled in all the nets for three weeks, she managed to track down two poaching ships, the Yongding and Kunlun , and drive them out of the fishing grounds. After three months in the Southern Ocean, the talented Sam Simon in early March after Mauritius to Interpol evidence against the Thunder to pass and fill the tank again. On March 24, 2015, the Sam Simon reached the Bob Barker and joined the pursuit of the Thunder . After a 110-day chase, the Thunder captain , Luis Alfonso Rubio Cataldo from Chile, sank his own ship in the Gulf of Guinea on April 6, 2015 to destroy evidence of illegal fishing in Antarctica. The entire 40-person crew was rescued by the Sea Shepherd ships Bob Barker and Sam Simon and handed over to the authorities in São Tomé and Príncipe . There the captain was sentenced by a court on October 12, 2015 to a prison term of 36 months.

After more than 150 days on the high seas, Sam Simon and Bob Barker docked in Bremen at the beginning of May.

In June, the Sam Simon set out for Norway to document the illegal trade in fin whale meat . Between June and October, the Sam Simon took part in Operation Sleppid Grindini , in which they took action against whale and dolphin fishing in the Faroe Islands , the Grindadráp . During the campaign, 14 Sea Shepherd activists were arrested for the crime of disrupting whale slaughter and three inflatable boats, including two of the Sam Simon , were confiscated.

2016

In 2016 took Sam Simon at Sea-Future Congress in La Spezia , Italy part. From June 2016, the Sam Simon took part in Operation Siracusa, in which the crew, in collaboration with the Italian Coast Guard, patrolled the Plemmirio marine reserve on the coast of Sicily .

In October 2016, the Sam Simon set out from Italy for the Sea of ​​Cortes , Mexico , to work with the Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat , the Mexican Navy and the Mexican government to end the extinction of the only 30 dolphins that live there as well as the also endangered totoabafish . In the campaign known as Operation Milagro, the crews of the Sea Shepherd ships confiscated illegal gillnets and longlines . The Sam Simon and Farley Mowat also tracked illegal fishing boats and reported them to the authorities so that the Navy could arrest the boats.

2017

On 25 January, the participating Sam Simon in the rescue of a man overboard Mexican fisherman from the sister ship Farley Mowat was taken on board, a second previous overboard fisherman could neither of the Sea Shepherd ships still on the Mexican Coast Guard found to be .

The Sam Simon at anchor.

At the beginning of April, the Farley Mowat and the Sam Simon were escorted by five Mexican navy vessels, as local fishermen threatened to attack the Sea Shepherd ships with 200 small boats - so-called pangas. By deploying the police, the fishermen were only able to lower a quarter of the boats into the water. None of the boats reached the Sea Shepherd ships. A panga marked "Sea Shepherd" was burned as a threat during a demonstration a few days earlier.

After six months in Mexico, the Sam Simon returned to Italy in June. During the campaign, 53 volunteers from 15 countries were part of Captain Oona Layolle's team. The ship patrolled 17,594 kilometers in the protected area. 10612 photos documented the 107 days of patrols during which 593 illegal small boats were discovered. The two dinghies of the Sam Simon were launched 340 times and spent a total of 527 hours there. Together with the Farley Mowat, the Sea Shepherd ships confiscated 233 illegal fishing nets, including 189 totoaba, 27 shrimp nets and 17 longlines. The nets were made unusable and given to the organization "Parley for the Oceans" for recycling. There were 1,195 dead animals in the nets, including sharks , dolphins , whales , turtles , seals and sea ​​lions . 795 animals were released alive. In addition, the ships have pulled 160 ghost nets from the Sea of ​​Cortes since October 2016 .

On June 10 and 11, the Sam Simon crossed the Panama Canal and reached the Italian port of La Spezia on July 3. In August and September, the Sam Simon participated in Sea Shepherd Italy-led Operation Jairo Med. In the campaign, the crew worked with the Italian coast guard to confiscate illegally used fishing systems, in particular the so-called Fish Aggregation Device (FAD), in the waters of the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea , in northern Sicily. During the campaign, the crew of the Sam Simon pulled 49 of these fishing systems with 73.5 kilometers of nylon cords and hundreds of plastic barrels from the Mediterranean.

In October, the Sea Shepherd ship left for Liberia after a stopover in Gibraltar . In cooperation with the Liberian government, navy and fisheries authorities, Sam Simon has been patrolling the waters of the African coastal state against illegal fishing since November 2017. In the second part of Operation Sola Stella, three more illegal fishing boats were arrested by mid-January 2018.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Sea Shepherd Worldwide Fleet ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sea Shepherd Global Official Website, Retrieved February 16, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seashepherdglobal.org
  2. ↑ Unveiling in Hobart, Tasmania - our new MS Sam Simon ( memento of the original from December 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.seashepherd.org archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sea Shepherd News, December 10, 2012, Sea Shepherd Germany e. V. Retrieved December 15, 2012.
  3. ↑ a b c d e The Fleet - Sea Shepherd ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Sea Shepherd Conservation Society website. Retrieved December 15, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seashepherd.org
  4. ↑ The M / V Sam Simon to join the Sea Shepherd fleet ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seashepherd.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sea Shepherd News, June 21, 2012, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  5. ↑ Andrew Darby: Japanese duped in $ 2m ship purchase. In: WAtoday.com.au. December 11, 2012, accessed December 15, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Sea Shepherd commemorates Sam Simon , Sea Shepherd News, March 12, 2015, Sea Shepherd Deutschland e. V. Accessed December 1, 2015.
  7. ↑ Sea Shepherd Welcomes Iconic 007 Star Sean Connery, Champion Pro Surfer Stephanie Gilmore, and Award-winning TV Executive Sam Simon to its International Board of Advisors ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seashepherd.org archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sea Shepherd News, December 5, 2011, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  8. ↑ Sea Shepherd Australia to lead antarctic whale defense campaign , Sea Shepherd News, Jan. 8, 2013, Sea Shepherd Australia. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  9. ↑ Sea Shepherd Severs Fuel Supply to the Whaling Fleet , Sea Shepherd News, Feb.7, 2013, Sea Shepherd Australia. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  10. ↑ Sea Shepherd Ship Bob Barker is On the Slipway of the Nisshin Maru , Sea Shepherd News, February 15, 2013, Sea Shepherd Australia. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  11. ↑ Japanese Whale poaching vessel, Nisshin Maru, rams Korean fuel tanker and Sea Shepherd ships , Sea Shepherd News, February 20, 2013, Sea Shepherd Australia. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  12. ↑ Sydney welcomes the Sam Simon , Sea Shepherd News, Sep 4, 2013, Sea Shepherd Australia. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  13. ↑ The Sea Shepherd ship Sam Simon docks in Williamstown , Sea Shepherd News, March 8, 2014, Sea Shepherd Deutschland e. V. Accessed December 1, 2015.
  14. ↑ Operation Relentless saved 784 whales , Sea Shepherd News, April 9, 2014, Sea Shepherd Deutschland e. V. Accessed December 1, 2015.
  15. ↑ Sea Shepherd ship joins whale exhibition at Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney , Sea Shepherd News, April 24, 2014, Sea Shepherd Australia, accessed December 1, 2015.
  16. ↑ Operation Icefish: Sea Shepherd launches new campaign in the Southern Ocean , Sea Shepherd News, September 16, 2014, Sea Shepherd Deutschland e. V. Accessed December 2, 2015.
  17. ↑ The Bob Barker sets out for Operation Icefish , Sea Shepherd News, December 3, 2014, Sea Shepherd Deutschland e. V. Accessed December 2, 2015.
  18. ↑ The Sam Simon sets out for Operation Icefish , Sea Shepherd News, December 8, 2014, Sea Shepherd Deutschland e. V. Accessed December 2, 2015.
  19. ↑ Sea Shepherd intercepts antarctic codfish in the Southern Ocean , Sea Shepherd News, December 18, 2014, Sea Shepherd Deutschland e. V. Accessed December 2, 2015.
  20. ↑ Operation Icefish 2014-15 ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seashepherdglobal.org archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , About Operation Icefish, Sea Shepherd Global, Retrieved December 2, 2015.
  21. ↑ Sea Shepherd intercepts two poaching ships , Sea Shepherd News, February 2, 2015, Sea Shepherd Deutschland e. V. Accessed December 2, 2015.
  22. ↑ Sea Shepherd gives authorities evidence of illegal fishing activities , Sea Shepherd News, March 3, 2015, Sea Shepherd Deutschland e. V. Accessed December 2, 2015.
  23. ↑ The Sam Simon Replenishes Bob Barker Supplies , Sea Shepherd News, March 24, 2015, Sea Shepherd Deutschland e. V. Accessed December 2, 2015.
  24. ↑ Great victory in the fight against illegal fishing , Sea Shepherd News, October 12, 2015, Sea Shepherd Germany e. V. Accessed December 2, 2015.
  25. ↑ Welcome to Germany! , YouTube video from Sea Shepherd Germany e. V., May 3, 2015, accessed December 2, 2015.
  26. ↑ The Sam Simon leaves Norway to examine the delivery of fin whale meat , Sea Shepherd News, July 1, 2015, Sea Shepherd Deutschland e. V. Accessed December 2, 2015.
  27. ↑ Sea Shepherd ends grueling campaign to protect pilot whales in the Faroe Islands , Sea Shepherd News, October 5, 2015, Sea Shepherd Deutschland e. V. Accessed December 2, 2015.
  28. ↑ Danish Navy Seizea Anti Whaling Sea Shepherd Boat From Shetland Harbor, September 5, 2015, STV News, accessed June 27, 2016.
  29. ↑ Operation Siracusa 2016 , June 15, 2016, Sea Shepherd Deutschland e. V. accessed on June 27, 2016.
  30. ↑ Sea Shepherd launches OPERATION MILAGRO III to protect golf dolphins in Mexico , November 23, 2016, Sea Shepherd Germany e. V. accessed on December 6, 2016.
  31. ↑ Sea Shepherd Crew Rescues Fleeing Fishermen , January 29, 2017, The Maritime Executive, accessed February 16, 2017.
  32. ^ Mexican fishermen burn boat, demand environmentalists out , March 27, 2017, Fox News, accessed July 24, 2017.
  33. ↑ Mexican vaquita porpoise pushed toward extinction by illicit fish bladder trade , The San Diego Union-Tribune, May 12, 2017, Sandra Dibble, accessed July 24, 2017.
  34. ↑ The coast guard seizes illegal fishing systems , Giornale di Lipari, September 3, 2017, accessed on January 14, 2018.
  35. ↑ Arrested Fishing Vessel Could Lead to $ 1 Million Fine , The Maritime Executive, January 7, 2018, accessed January 14, 2018.