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  • 15.4.2025

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00:00Antarctica. The conflict between the environmental organization Sea Shepherd and the Japanese whalers is escalating.
00:12The Sea Shepherds believe that Japanese whalers are violating the international whaling ban.
00:18They, in turn, claim that they are only collecting samples for scientific purposes.
00:22Both parties feel they are in the right and push themselves to the limit, even if it could cost them their lives.
00:30Last time at Whale Wars.
00:38No, seriously. Do you have any more detailed information about the boat?
00:44Pretty small. Yes, we're looking for the ship.
00:49The signal from an emergency radio beacon has been received and we are the only ones who can help.
01:00The New Zealand Maritime Rescue Centre has informed the Sea Shepherds that a small expedition vessel has just sent out a distress call.
01:13It is only 200 nautical miles away, so maritime law requires environmentalists to put their search for the whaling fleet on hold.
01:21The lives of adventurers come first now.
01:28The ship we are looking for is a 14-meter steel yacht called Berserk.
01:32She is part of a two-man quad expedition to the South Pole.
01:40The boat is either in trouble or has already sunk.
01:45Five people are missing. They may be on the mainland or on the ship.
01:50It's like finding a needle in a haystack, a hundred times harder than finding the whaling fleet.
01:57But the boys could still be out there waiting for help. So we'll do everything we can to help.
02:05I know the captain of the Berserk. When he was 17 or 18, he sailed to Antarctica.
02:13He is very experienced and that means they have a chance of survival.
02:15Looks big. Pretty intense.
02:30A massive storm was brewing in front of the Steve Irwin, which probably also put the Berserk in distress.
02:38A New Zealand warship wanted to join the search, but had to turn back.
02:43The storm had damaged the ship so badly that it had to be repaired in the next port.
02:53The crew of the Steve Irwin can only hope that their ship will cope better with the storm.
03:00It's getting worse.
03:01The weather has always been a big problem, but it has never been this bad in the Southern Ocean.
03:18I was scared. I mean, the Navy turned around and went home.
03:37The Berserk is missing and we're looking for her. But who will help us if we get into trouble?
03:45Who would help me with this?
03:50Look at this.
03:52Wow!
03:57Oh my God.
03:58The world is a vampire
04:03Sent to drain
04:07Secret destroyers
04:12Hold you up to the flames
04:16And what do I get
04:19For my pain
04:23The Steve Irwin sets out to search for the missing yacht.
04:50Meanwhile, the Gojira reaches the port in Hobart.
04:56We have a problem with the controls.
05:01At this point, no one can say how long it will take to get the two engines running again.
05:08We need to fix the problem and get going as soon as possible.
05:13If we find the Nishinmaru, we can finally do what we need to do.
05:16And all this without steering or rudder.
05:25The Steve Irwin must search for a yacht in distress.
05:28The Gojira sits in the harbor festival.
05:31At the moment, only the Bob Barker can stop the whalers.
05:35The crew is still following what is believed to be the fleet's tanker.
05:39Now she can only hope that the harpoon ships and the factory ship are running low on fuel.
05:45Ideally, the tanker will take the environmentalists directly to the Nishinmaru.
05:52On the port side is the Sun Laurel, a tanker for the whaling ships.
06:01They decided to just follow them.
06:07Because if they can't refuel, they have to go home. Without fuel, there's no whaling.
06:11At the moment, the Sea Shepherds can only wait and hope that they are lucky and encounter the whaling fleet soon.
06:31The Steve Irwin is approaching the location where the emergency call was made.
06:35But this also means that the Sea Shepherds are getting deeper into the massive storm.
06:40A captain of the New Zealand Navy described it as the worst storm in 19 years.
06:48Is the weather severe?
06:51A nasty storm. 60 km/h winds.
07:01We drive to the coordinates we were given and as soon as possible we search by helicopter.
07:09It was really scary how severe the weather can be down here.
07:24The water splashed onto the windows and froze in the same moment.
07:28That must have been terrible for the boys in their little yacht.
07:31Constant 50 knots of wind.
07:41At some point it has to subside.
07:49Suddenly there were chunks of ice everywhere.
07:55There's a big one.
07:57They sink ships.
08:01There's another one.
08:03And there are a few smaller ones.
08:06They are everywhere.
08:08Do you see that one?
08:09It's coming right towards us.
08:13If you hit an iceberg, it's over.
08:17Two months ago, a South Korean ship with 26 crew members sank.
08:21They had no chance of getting out of there.
08:29We'll ram him.
08:31If something happens and you have to get off the boat, you won't survive long in the water.
08:57We would all be dead.
09:06I was afraid.
09:09I sent a message to my wife.
09:12This could be the end.
09:14Tell the children that I love them.
09:16Maybe that was it.
09:16That was a monster yesterday.
09:45But things are looking good for the next few hours.
09:54The storm was probably the most violent this ship had to endure in its 35 years.
10:02People were pretty scared.
10:03It was really intense.
10:12And I thought to myself, if we experienced this on the Steve Irwin, how bad would it be on a 14-meter ship.
10:21That must have been pretty crazy.
10:32After the storm has subsided, the search for information about the victims can continue.
10:37A few crew members did some research online and found out that the guys on the Berserk are from Norway and love adventure.
10:47The adventurers were on a daring expedition.
10:55The five men, aged between 18 and 36, dedicated themselves to the 100th anniversary of Roald Amundsen's discovery of the South Pole.
11:02Ten days earlier, two crew members were dropped.
11:12They wanted to continue following Amundsen’s route on quads.
11:15No one knows if they returned to the ship when the storm hit.
11:20These were a few young adventurers.
11:23I would do anything for that. Quit my job, just about anything.
11:35I have a lot of that thirst for adventure in me too.
11:40The more we found out, the more we thought about their friends and families and how they were feeling.
11:48It's just terrible.
11:53The Steve Irwin reaches McMurdo Sound.
12:02The helicopter is prepared and the crew puts together an aid package with the most important things.
12:11Basically just water, blankets, something to eat, a radio, heating pads and a first aid kit.
12:18If we get close enough, we can communicate with them via radio.
12:23We could search these 50 square kilometers. Then we'd have good coverage.
12:38Helicopter pilot Chris Oldman will first fly to the coordinates where the emergency call was made.
12:44If he doesn't find anything there, he'll continue searching along the coast in case the crew somehow made it ashore.
12:52It's completely normal at sea: When you receive a distress call, you respond.
13:03The captain is a very experienced sailor, but it is a very small boat in a very hostile environment.
13:09I am very happy to help find the boys.
13:15There have been people who have survived something like this. I hope we find them.
13:32E-E-G-M-L-E-B-G-B-G-B-G-B-G-G-B-G-G-G-B-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G-G.
13:46I hear you.
14:06We are still two kilometers away.
14:16Here it is.
14:33No trace so far.
14:37Got it, no wreckage.
14:39Are you now starting your search along the coast to the east?
14:41Yes, we are searching everything along the coast.
14:51I was disappointed, but there is still a large area to search.
14:56If we're only 35 nautical miles away from the spot, we might be able to see something from here too.
15:21The search has now been going on for 16 hours.
15:29The crew members look out for the yacht on deck.
15:33But a 15-meter-long, bright sailing ship can easily be overlooked here.
15:37The entire crew was out on deck. It was minus 10 degrees or less.
15:44We looked with binoculars and from the crow's nest.
15:47Everyone hoped that what happened to the Berserk would be revealed.
16:07What is that?
16:07Point to it, please.
16:30Point to it, please.
16:36Interesting.
16:44Strange color for a life raft. But it looks like one.
16:50I don't want to be in there.
16:58And that overnight.
16:59That would be incredible if it really is one.
17:05Do you see the sea anchor?
17:07I became very emotional when I saw the life raft.
17:31It was completely torn to pieces and I realized that someone could have actually died in that thing.
17:37That is the reality.
17:40People can die here.
17:41It was completely destroyed.
17:57I was afraid we'd find a body in there.
18:01A terrible feeling.
18:08Let's get it out.
18:29I was depressed and felt sick.
18:39The life raft was completely destroyed and it was immediately clear that no one could have survived in it.
18:49Can we get this up without a winch?
18:51We don't yet know if it's from the Berserk. But the location is certainly interesting.
19:07It was sobering to think that someone had to leave their steel boat behind and drift through a storm in this little thing.
19:17I drove it in this little storm.
19:21We should let you know if we find a marker or a name.
19:37We need a name.
19:41They would have frozen to death in that thing anyway.
19:46There is a plastic bag.
19:48I think there's something in there.
19:49Maybe they left something behind.
19:58Terrible.
19:59The distress call came from the coast over there.
20:09That's why Paul thought they might be drifting in the water between the shore and the life raft.
20:13They could also have gone ashore before the storm.
20:26That's all we can hope for now.
20:31Maybe they're sitting in an igloo. There are many possibilities.
20:34They call for help and the life raft is blown away.
20:40Let's hope someone on land makes their presence known with smoke.
20:44We tried a few times to pull the raft up, but we couldn't.
21:03So it was decided that we would try the crane.
21:11But first we had to break off the centimeter-thick ice that was everywhere on the deck of the ship.
21:19Does the crane work?
21:22Might take a while.
21:23While the crew on the Steve Irwin is busy recovering the life raft, Chris Altman continues the search from the air.
21:40We have three hours' worth of fuel. We need to find the guys.
21:48We searched everywhere on land and in the water for any sign of life from them.
21:53Even though the chances of finding the men alive are now extremely slim, the environmentalists are not giving up.
22:07We then flew from north to south and back again, always keeping a distance of one and a half kilometers.
22:13I kept thinking, we have to find something.
22:15Someone is missing their son and I want to do everything I can to find him.
22:24Let the water flow out slowly.
22:42One last time.
23:05Sleeping outside last night?
23:14Virtually impossible.
23:24I wouldn't say it's very big. I don't think 50 people could fit in there.
23:31Are there more missing?
23:36Zodiac 50 or Avon 8?
23:39Avon 8
23:40Thanks, Keith.
23:41Bye.
23:41The Maritime Rescue Centre said that the warship lost 3.50 life rafts during the search yesterday.
23:57It should say Zodiac on it.
23:59Do you see the brand?
24:00It's a zodiac.
24:06It's a zodiac.
24:08Certainly.
24:10It's a zodiac.
24:13Okay, then down with it.
24:19The life raft clearly does not come from the missing yacht, but from the naval vessel that had to abandon the search because of the storm.
24:28So there is still hope.
24:29They lost three of them.
24:33In the storm.
24:37It would have been nice if the Maritime Rescue Centre had told us this earlier.
24:42Although of course it is clear.
24:44The raft is much too big for the Berserk.
24:46Also, it's black, so it must be from a Navy ship.
24:49I can't feel my fingers anymore.
25:00New Zealand is trying to find out where the men wanted to cross-country ski on the mainland.
25:07I wonder how they calculate how long you can survive here.
25:09Last night not very long.
25:17Especially not in the water.
25:18There have been extreme cases in the past where people have survived much longer than anyone would have thought possible.
25:27So we continued to either find them alive or at least recover their bodies.
25:33How long do we search?
25:42Until there is no more hope.
25:4342 hours have now passed since the emergency call was made.
26:03With every hour, the chances of survival for the missing sailors decrease.
26:07We scan the horizon with binoculars, hoping to see a signal flare somewhere.
26:24You see icebergs and think it might be a capsized yacht that is covered in ice.
26:29You hope that every thing you see is the yacht.
26:35Moves like a yacht.
26:37It's just ice.
26:45Keep searching.
26:52We have strong winds blowing south.
26:57If this continues, we will not be able to include you in our search route again.
27:01So we should change our plan.
27:07Then we'll make the best of it while I still have gas.
27:13I fill up at McMurdo's and then we have another three hours.
27:18Then you can pick me up on the leeward side and continue searching in that direction.
27:22OK?
27:22Okay, then we'll drive to the western end of the search area and then back.
27:32If you want to go back, we'll go to the leeward side of Scott Island.
27:35Chris Altman has to briefly interrupt his search at the research station in McMurdo to refuel the helicopter.
27:54We'll search for another hour and a half, then we'll go back to the ship.
28:19You think the Berserk crew is in ship?
28:49The two men who were dropped off on the mainland are safe.
29:01The leader of the expedition, Jarle Antoi, and the youngest crew member, Samuel Massi,
29:06were able to give the maritime emergency call center important information about the whereabouts of their missing comrades.
29:12But at the moment there is still no trace of Robert Scarnes, Leonard Banks and Tom Bellica.
29:23We just received information that the two men with the quarts are doing well.
29:29They wanted to meet the other three at Shackleton's Hut at Royce Point.
29:42Fantastic! We're already on our way.
29:44The rescue center suspects that the men sought shelter from the storm in the hut.
29:53It was built in 1908 by explorer Ernest Shackleton and is only 30 kilometers from the spot where the distress call was made.
30:02We're here. I'll call you as soon as we're back in the helicopter.
30:18We are waiting.
30:18We are waiting.
30:18And then hijosse economically.
30:27L districts still Malus, w pull us a bit.
30:29A lot would have happened, then we would have already experienced it.
30:32Then we'll cook it.
30:36They're not in here.
31:06We looked everywhere, there was no one here.
31:16No sign of people, understood.
31:18Everyone is aware that the chances of finding the men alive are now extremely slim.
31:38There is still a small chance that they are floating somewhere on the water in their life raft.
31:53But the SOS was 50 hours ago, and we should have found the ship, wreckage, or something like that here.
32:10It's not exactly encouraging.
32:14The helicopter didn't spot anything. There were many people on deck with binoculars.
32:29We really tried everything. But I'm afraid the sea has taken her.
32:34But yes, unfortunately, the sea took them.
33:04Over there.
33:17We see something orange in the water. I'll call back in a minute.
33:32Take a closer look at the thing.
33:44I knew immediately what it was.
33:47It is a four-man life raft.
34:07The last few seconds before you get over it, your heart sinks.
34:13I was afraid that we would find people in the life raft who were no longer alive.
34:27Any sign of life?
34:31Wait a minute.
34:43Negative. It's empty.
35:04The roof was torn.
35:05Are all the Wellington life rafts the same?
35:15Yes, those were all 50-person islands. We're looking for an Avon-8.
35:22That's what it looks like.
35:40Even from the air it looked tattered.
35:42There was ice everywhere, inside and out. It was really sad.
35:49It's a life raft that people should be in.
35:53But there was no one in there.
35:54There was no one in there.
36:17Yes, slowly.
36:18There was no one in there.
36:19There was no one in there.
36:20There was no one in there.
36:21But there was no one in there.
36:23I don't see a name.
36:25I don't see a name.
36:47It's an Avon, they had one like that.
36:55I can't imagine they survived in there.
37:20They might have been thrown out, they had emergency blankets, but still.
37:25Peaceful here.
37:33If the life raft has drifted this far, it is unlikely that the yacht is any farther away.
37:57And we also searched the water south of here, where the current goes.
38:03Maybe that just means the ship is gone.
38:0565 hours have now passed since the adventurers' SOS.
38:17The life raft is clearly of the same type as the Berserk.
38:22Did anyone touch or tie anything?
38:30No, I don't see anything.
38:33It's completely torn to pieces.
38:39The storm had 65 knots.
38:45The raft must have been thrown around like it was in a washing machine.
38:47The life raft opens immediately if a ship sinks.
38:57But it was empty and there was no sign that the men had ever been inside.
39:03The most likely scenario is that the Berserk got into distress at sea, the crew sent out the SOS and then sank with their ship.
39:11The raft is intact.
39:24Clear.
39:26Can you tell me the marking on the raft?
39:31K 68 06 96
39:36It's an Avon.
39:48Yes, absolutely, sir.
39:50Thank you, we have this.
39:53All right, sir.
39:54Bye Bye.
40:03New Zealand has called off the search.
40:04They thank us for our work and ask us to refer all media inquiries to this number.
40:18When you come here, you take that risk. It's dangerous, and these things can happen.
40:26After the life raft was recovered, the New Zealand authorities officially ended the search.
40:37Robert Scarnis, Tom Bellica and Leonard Banks are declared dead.
40:46It's terrible. You try everything to find her and don't give up hope.
40:58I feel sorry for their families.
41:05Some people on the other side of the world are suffering incredibly right now.
41:09I would like to express my condolences to them.
41:20Tell them that they meant something to us.
41:28And that we have done everything in our power.
41:31We did everything we could.
41:33You go through different phases in life.
41:46And I don't rule out the possibility of sitting on a 14-meter yacht in these waters one day.
41:52The guys on the Berserk have probably never been in a situation like this before.
41:56We become too comfortable in our usual living conditions.
42:03In doing so, we may be risking much more than we ever imagined.
42:15I'll definitely come back.
42:17I'll do it.
42:26Come back as an Arctic Knight.
42:36This has several advantages.
42:40If you succeed, we will baptize you as one of us.
42:49Good luck then. Stay off the ice. See you in Cape Royce.
42:53See you next time.
43:23Next time at Whale Wars.
43:29Let’s look for the Nishinmaru again.
43:34We go over in the dark in an inflatable boat and slap the transmitter on.
43:39With the crane in the dark, without help?
43:48There's something on the horizon.
43:50We have to find them today.
43:53It is the Nishinmaru.
43:54It is the Nishinmaru.