Polar Pioneer

Canadian EEZ in the Pacific Ocean ­– Right now, Indigenous and environmental activists are speeding away from the Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza in small inflatable boats to confront Shell’s massive Arctic drilling platform, the Polar Pioneer, 35 nautical miles west of Vancouver Island.

The six climbers who safely intercepted, scaled, and set up camp on an Arctic-bound Shell oil drilling rig in the Pacific have come down after spending almost a week on the 38,000 tonne platform.

The multi-national team of volunteers abseiled off the rig and into inflatable boats, before returning to the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, which has been stationed close by for the last week.