The Bermuda Triangle is in an area of the Atlantic called the Sargasso Sea – the only sea without a land border.
It’s a place full of wonder; a golden floating rainforest home to turtles and whales and a nursery for even more incredible creatures.
Unfortunately, industrial fishing, plastic pollution and climate change are threatening this unique habitat.
Greenpeace activists and campaigners have just arrived in the Sargasso Sea, ready to work with incredible scientists, local Bermudian conservationists and political figures. Check out the Ship’s Log below, updated day by day.
Together, we’re making the case that the Sargasso Sea needs to be properly protected – as one of the first ocean sanctuaries on the high seas under the Global Ocean Treaty.
Surveying seabirds and underwater soundwaves
Activists set sail in 1971 to Amchitka island in an old boat called The Greenpeace to protest nuclear testing. Many victories since have been thanks to our ships. In 2016, the Arctic Sunrise took pianist Ludovico Einaudi and his grand piano for a performance on ice floes in the Arctic. Greenpeace ships were used in UK and Swedish waters to create extremely effective 'boulder barriers' to stop destructive fishing. In 2021, the Rainbow Warrior brought youth activists from areas
most affected by climate change to COP26 in Glasgow, to demand world leaders "stop failing us" climate. En route to Bermuda, two local seabird conservationists joined the ship to document the different types of seabirds common to the Sargasso, and to determine if there has been any evident species loss. What do Greenpeace ships do?
The founding voyage
Music at the top of the world
Building a boulder barrier in UK waters
Taking youth activists to COP26
They recorded eight species including a European Storm Petrel and Manx Shearwaters, which both nest in the British Isles but migrate to the Sargasso to feed.
Now the Arctic Sunrise has docked in Hamilton, Bermuda, on the edge of the Sargasso Sea, where our next job will be surveying cetaceans – these are aquatic mammals like whales, dolphins and porpoises.
Using an underwater microphone local scientists will analyse the creatures’ sounds to record how many of each species there are and where they are in the Sargasso Sea.
Greenpeace’s latest expedition: one year, two ships, seven stops – and boatloads of ambition
Throughout 2024 and 2025, Greenpeace ships are sailing to several ecologically-significant locations around our beautiful blue planet.
Our iconic vessels will be spotted all round the world – from the deep sea plateau of Lord Howe Rise, south of Australia, to the vast underwater mountain range of Emperor Seamounts – the highest parts of which form the islands of Hawaii!
As only Greenpeace can, we’re working with world-renowned experts and local people to highlight to governments why these precious areas need protecting. As they all fall outside of national boundaries, countries will have to work together to preserve them.
This sounds like a daunting challenge, but one of our first ports of call, the Galápagos Islands, already boasts an impressive marine reserve.We saw firsthand how nature was flourishing inside its boundaries, contrasted with the evident species loss just outside. While we were there, we did scientific testing and tracked migratory species to make the case for other similar ocean sanctuaries across the globe.
