the ice will soon close in about its business or a race against time to protect areas like the weddell sea before it's too late to mccallum it's a greenpeace campaign leader we're campaigning for will be the love world's largest protected area as an antarctic ocean sanction an area of the bible say to be about five times the size of germany the proposal is already on the table it's already got the backing of the. scientists are saying we need to protect a third of the world's oceans at least every one to left fish stocks recover we want to mitigate against the worst impacts of climate change and the antarctic is a great place to start. in october twenty eighth the thirty six governments responsible for the conservation of antarctic waters will consider the weddell see proposal the aim of the expedition is to build the case that this century needs to happen. the hours go by and the temperature drops significantly. on the bridge they're on high alert we're heading into dangerous waters tense times risky. but paul rozin. you have what they call birdie bits growlers and ice birds depending on

island at the northern tip here all join the greenpeace ship the arctic sunrise and head into the weddell sea with luck will reach our target the sixty fourth parallel which marks the northern edge of the proposed asian sanctuary and internationally supported marine reserve covering one point eight million square kilometers that would be protected from direct human impact like fishing oil drilling and deep sea mining. how times have changed immediately it's clear how connected the outer reaches of the antarctic continent to become the plane is full of tourists. what was once a grueling journey of months maybe is now can be done in an hour and a half with lunch and if you. want to. be in the alps like that for fun. it's a cold murky arrival and surprised at how many people there are around dozens of coming and going to here without king george island and downscaling made it seem. like they don't. look so remote as warm transport a. you can see lots of traverse. taking ribs out to inflatable boats out to me cruise ships for the holidays i also hear a lot of research stations. both of us play wi

island at the northern tip here all join the greenpeace ship the arctic sunrise and head into the weddell sea with luck will reach out target the sixty fourth parallel which marks the new world an age of the proposed ation sanctuary an internationally supported marine reserve covering one point eight million square kilometers that would be protected from direct human impacts like fishing oil drilling and deep sea mining. how times have changed immediately it's clear how connected the outer reaches of the antarctic continent to become the plane is full of tourists. what was once a grueling journey of months maybe is now can be done in an hour and a half with lunch and if you. want to. be an uphill fight. there before. it's a cold murky arrival surprised at how many people there are around dozens are coming in going here with no king george island and downscale related scientists now saying that they don't. look so remote as warm a transport you can see lots of tears gathered taking ribs out to inflatable boats out to meet cruise ships for the holidays and also ahead a lot of research stations.

out more about the growing threats encroaching on the region we leave the lonely waters of the weddell sea heading back through the antarctic sound a day shaped by the routine on board. everyone has different ways of filling spare hours from the top practice to running repairs and of course cooking for old guys and they get what's cooking today but they do it their way and best of it is that when you know that somebody will know the customers yeah the same every day and we share that with them it is not everybody who has a year like this in their restaurant kitchen pretties but that's why we are here. later we had for sure making landfall on the south shetland islands near the tip of the antarctic peninsula. it's quite a relief to be back on dry land off but it's been careening around all over the place to be welcomed. by cullen ephesus. penguin said territory with the seals one making the most of the comfortable feathers the melting juveniles. but here too evidence once again of how the world is closing in on antarctica a number of tourists twenty years ago it was around forty five thousa