The Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin is presently off the coast of Antarctic searching for the Japanese whaling fleet.

The cards are stacked against us in this pursuit but we will continue on for as long as our fuel reserves allow us to do so.

Support in this effort to stop illegal Japanese whaling is faltering. The government of Australia has reneged on their election promise to intervene, they decided to not send naval vessels and then decided to send the Customs vessel Oceanic Viking which still has not departed from Fremantle. Their plan to monitor humpback populations has been abandoned because "it is too late in the season." And low altitude aerial surveillance does not look like it will be approved until after the whaling season.

If we can find them we can stop them. The Japanese whalers have already slaughtered over a third of their quota and we believe they are killing humpbacks despite their claim that they are not.