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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