Speaker Series - Lincoln Shaw of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

Gripping Photos from 81 Days at Sea Lincoln Shaw's first-person photographic account from Sea Shepherd's Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign.

In 2010 Lincoln Shaw spent almost 3 months helping disrupt a Japanese whaling fleet in Antarctica as a volunteer for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS). The SSCS vessel Bob Barker sailed into the Antarctic and carried a courageous SSCS team into the path of Japanese whale killing and processing ships. The Sea Shepherd's mission was to shut down the illegal Japanese whaling fleet and enforce international conservation law with non-violent direct action techniques to stop the killing of whales. The techniques have garnered worldwide media attention to the illegal killing of thousands of whales through the Animal Planet television series Whale Wars.

Lincoln Shaw, crew member and one of the drivers of the 81 day Bob Barker's 2010 encounter, will present his first-person photographic account of the Sea Shepherd's Antarctic Whale Defense Campaign along with photos of his amazing up close encounters with sea lions, elephant seals, albatross, and other Antarctic wildlife.

As a member of the crew on the Bob Barker, Lincoln dealt with violent storms in the Southern Ocean, where swells reached as high as 50 feet, sustained winds of 50 - 60mph, confrontations with the Japanese whaling boats, and watching another boat, the Andy Gil, being rammed with men aboard and sunk. Surrounded by frozen beauty, Shaw took photographs throughout the journey and will reveal his story of what happened aboard the Bob Barker.

Lincoln will also give up to date information on the San Francisco chapter of Sea Shepard Conservation Society and what is transpiring at this time with the organization and whaling in the Antarctic.

Note: No whales were killed during his watch and no brutal images will be shown during the presentation.