Scottish-based Cairn Energy announced on August 24, 2010 the discovery of gas in Arctic waters off the coast of Greenland. The Greenpeace ship Esperanza was in a standoff with Cairn and a Danish Navy warship just west of Disko Island in Baffin Bay. The region is already being primed for drilling. Fire ships attempted to melt icebergs with hoses and limit iceberg flow near the drilling sites and larger icebergs were towed out of the way by industry tugboats. Greenpeace is campaigning to protect the Arctic from industrial destruction and is seeking an immediate moratorium on all such exploitation in the vulnerable Arctic Ocean.