Sea Shepherd’s new vessel ‘The Ocean Warrior’ to be launched in September 2016 (Watch Video)

Published 10 years agoon May 11, 2016

Sea Shepherd Global’s new ship ‘The Ocean Warrior’ will be launched in September to join the organisation’s Global fleet.

It will be Sea Shepherd Global’s first fast long range, tough, custom built high seas patrol vessel.

Thanks to a generous grant from the Dutch and Swedish Postal Code Lotteries the ship is being built by the Dutch company Damen in Turkey.

Over the next few months, what is now just a shell of steel works will be transformed into a custom-designed, state of the art-vessel. The new ship will be capable of achieving speeds that far exceed any of the vessels in Sea Shepherd’s current fleet, and will be able to operate in extreme weather conditions.

Check out this awesome video of The Ocean Warrior being built:

For more information about Sea Shepherd, visit www.seashepherd.org.

Jeff Goodman

Jeff is a multiple award winning, freelance TV cameraman/film maker and author. Having made both terrestrial and marine films, it is the world's oceans and their conservation that hold his passion with over 10.000 dives in his career. Having filmed for international television companies around the world and author of two books on underwater filming, Jeff is Author/Programme Specialist for the 'Underwater Action Camera' course for the RAID training agency. Jeff has experienced the rapid advances in technology for diving as well as camera equipment and has also experienced much of our planet’s marine life, witnessing, first hand, many of the changes that have occurred to the wildlife and environment during that time. Jeff runs bespoke underwater video and editing workshops for the complete beginner up to the budding professional.

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