On Wednesday night, the satirists from the cartoon show South Park took aim at the group (and Japanese whalers and, typcially, everyone else) in an episode that they named, in their inevitably "classy" fashion, "Whale Whores." In the story, the Japanese are filled with a burning hatred for whales and dolphins, and Stan (one of the South Park kids) teams up with Watson to fight back. Japan insists the hunt is for scientific research programs, but the meat invariably ends up in Japanese sushi bars and school lunches.īut that was nothing compared to the drubbing on US television. This year, Watson's visa for Australia, where the organization bases its Southern Ocean operations, was briefly held up by the government, something that Watson charged in an open letter was due to pressure from the Japanese government, which licenses a hunt for about 1,000 whales annually. She says the group will depart Australia in early December and hopes to shadow the Japanese whaling fleet until it returns home.īut more money, more problems, as The Notorious B.I.G.
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Watson has told reporters that it will be deployed in this year's anti-whaling (and TV shooting) mission in frigid waters south of Australia.Īmy Baird, Sea Shepherd's media director, says the group's other ships don't have the speed to keep up with Japanese harpoon boats and says the Gil will be used as an "interceptor vessel" to speed along with the harpooners as they seek minke and fin whales, and then dart in between them and their prey as they get set to take their shot. It's been renamed for the Hollywood benefactor who paid for its acquisition and given Sea Shepherds' characteristic black paint job. The $2.5 million space-age trimaran is all speed under the moniker Earthrace, it set the world circumnavigation record in just over 60 days (crushing the old record by nearly two weeks) in 2008. 17 the organization formally unveiled it's new weapon: The Ady Gil. The wave of attention has left Sea Shepherd's coffers more flush and on Oct. Their roster of celebrity supporters also include Uma Thurman, Mick Jagger, and Sean Penn.
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Movie star Daryl Hannah briefly crewed on the organization's Steve Irwin (named for Australian entertainer/conservationist who was killed by a stingray in 2006) last December as it hunted Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean. One of his ships carries a tally of whalers sunk – including one ship disabled while in Lisbon port by a limpet mine in 1980 – on its side, the way fighter aces used to tally their kills on their fuselages.īut since Watson and his merry band became the stars of Whale Wars, their own reality show on Animal Planet, their profile has gone through the roof. He's persona non-grata in Iceland, spent 80 days in a Norwegian prison in the 1990s and is even too extreme for Greenpeace, which shuns him, notwithstanding that he helped found that organization. Watson sneers, claiming he and his companions have the right to disrupt what they consider to be illegal and unethical whale hunts. The Law of the Sea? That's for sissies, Mr. If mockery is more damaging than direct criticism, Paul Watson is in big trouble.įor 30 years, Watson and his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have been the most feared eco-vigilantes on the high seas, steaming out in their black ships, jolly rogers hoisted, to ram and sometimes successfully sink Japanese and Norwegian whaling ships.
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