Sandra Schoettner, Marine Biologist and Greenpeace Oceans Campaigner from Germany, onboard Arctic Sunrise at Cierva Cove, in Hughes Bay south of Chavdar peninsula in the Antarctic in front of one of the two submarines the organisation been using. Greenpeace is on a three-month expedition to the Antarctic to carry out scientific research, including seafloor submarine dives and sampling for plastic pollution, to highlight the urgent need for the creation of a 1.8 million square kilometre Antarctic Ocean Sanctuary to safeguard species like whales and penguins.