Posts Tagged ‘Whaling’
At War for the Whales: #5 It All Pays Off
The final part in this series about the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's journey to stop illegal whaling...
Written by Wietse Van Der Werf
Illustration by Anieszka Banks
After the night watches in the engine room I tend to go straight to bed and get as much sleep as possible before the next watch starts eight hours later. However, what is ed this morning is different. After the Ady Gil, discount our high-tech trimaran, buy was rammed and sunk by a harpoon ship a month earlier, its captain Pete Bethune has moved in with us. It seems that diplomacy on its own is going to do little to get him and his crew the justice they deserve. The deliberate collision caused by the Japanese ship endangered the life of his crew as well as causing the loss of the 3 million dollar vessel. Pete was a man with a plan and tonight he would set out for mission impossible: go out into the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean on a small jet ski, board a… read more
