The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise intercepts the Cairn Energy's Leiv Eiriksson oil rig. The activists want to stop the Leiv Eiriksson oil rig from drilling in Baffin Bay, one of the most pristine and fragile natural areas in the world, home to important and vulnerable wildlife including almost all of the world's Narwhal population as well as blue whales, sea bird colonies, and polar bears. The Leiv Eiriksson is operated by Cairn Energy and is the only rig in the world currently set to begin new deep sea drilling in the Arctic making it a clear and present danger to the pristine arctic environment.