On Christmas Eve Sea Shepherd Conservation Society had one of its drones shot out of the sky by poachers in the northern Sea of Cortez. The drone that was shot was a Matrice 100 with a 12k flir camera. When I flew near them with the Matrice last March they just threw rocks or bottles toward the...
In January I started working as a volunteer drone operator on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship the Farley Mowat in the Sea of Cortez. Sea Shepherd has a second ship, the Sam Simon, working in the same area on the same campaign. As a drone operator, my duties are to fly drones to...