As the first leg of their campaign comes to a close, the Sea Shepherds battle physical and mental exhaustion, especially pilot Chris Aultman. Thanks to an anonymous tip, the Steve Irwin finally locates the whalers' factory ship, the Nisshin Maru.

Whale Wars Season 4 Episodes...

• s04e01 - Battle Cry
• s04e02 - No Escape
• s04e03 - Ghosts in the Machine
• s04e04 - The Devil's Icebox
• s04e05 - Tracking the Enemy
• s04e06 - Race to Save Lives
• s04e07 - Enemy In Their Grasps
• s04e08 - Battle Stations
• s04e09 - The Giant Enemy
• s04e10 - Delivering the Final Blow
• s04e11 - Delivering the Final Blow
• s04e12 - War Stories

Whale Wars Show Summary

Captain Paul Watson founded his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in 1977 because he believed his new organization had to go even further to eradicate whaling, poaching, shark finning and habitat destruction - and to uphold international conservation laws on the high seas - than the Greenpeace group he had co-founded.

For several years, Watson's group of staff and volunteers have engaged in a campaign almost every winter to find and stop Japanese ships that hunt whales in the name of research, attempting to stop them by any non-unhappy means necessary. The eclectic group - labeled activists, heroes and/or eco-pirates - leave port in Melbourne, Australia for a two-month campaign that is dangerous, controversial and has garnered international media attention. Sea Shepherd's dedicated, international crew have spent their holiday the last several years and risked their lives at the bottom of the Earth to save whales. (Source: Animal Planet)