Whale Wars Captain Paul Watson Embarks for Libya
Kamis, 02 Juni 2011 by Android Blackberry
Whale Wars Captain Paul Watson Embarks for Libya
Captain Paul Watson is tossing the red wine in his glass and talking about Libya.
“I guess the only diverse portion of this operation will likely be the knives,” he says. He’s sitting at the corner of a substantial table at a vegan restaurant in Chelsea with some members of his crew for a dinner that’s been thrown in his honor by Animal Planet, which broadcasts his show Whale Wars, and plans to shoot a brand new season around his campaign to save the blue fin tuna off the coast of Libya.
Watson looks the activist-pirate part. He wears a white buccaneer-style blouse (he purchases them from a yoga supplier) that flows over his belly and matches his silver-white hair. Lots of years ago Watson was a co-founder of Greenpeace, but he felt the group didn’t go far sufficient so he splintered off and formed the Sea Shepherd Conversation Society, and has attracted a following for his fearless pursuit of poachers. A couple of years ago, he was shot within the chest by a member of the Japanese coast guard (only his Kevlar vest saved him); Bridgette Bardot, Anthony Keidis, Martin Sheen, Pierce Brosnan, and lots of other A-listers sit on his board.
Although very best identified for his battle against whaling, recently he’s had his sights on protecting the giant blue fin tuna, which conservationists worry could turn out to be extinct. Last summer, Watson estimates his crew was able to save 800 blue fins, each and every of which he estimates go for $70,000 within the fish markets of Japan.
This year is going to be various. Because the protests and military intervention started in Libya, Watson and other marine conservationists have been concerned. 1 side impact of the no-fly zones imposed by NATO is that it'll be difficult for international fishing monitors to patrol Libyan waters because they won’t have the ability to use their helicopters. The result, Watson fears, are going to be a free-for-all for blue fin poachers. But the vacuum will give him room to operate too: The strained Libyan military won’t be chasing him and his crew away, like they've inside the past.
One worry is refugees. There may well be numerous inside the waters that if Watson picks them up it could deter him from his mission to save the fish.
"I don't know where we might be able to take them," he says.
“Oh, they’re fantastic,” he says. “When our divers get within the water they don’t even want to cut or swing them around. They just swim and these knives cut by way of the nets like butter.”
“Oh, Australian aborigines,” he says. The knives had been a gift, a weapon for Watson and his 40-member crew to make use of to free of charge the major tuna.
As a radical’s radical, Watson lives in extremes. He says he only sleeps four hours a day (“Unless I’m with a woman, then it is eight”) and now eats 1 meal every 48 hours (“It’s great for my energy”). For dinner he devours a pepper-crusted tempeh steak and talks about the hunt ahead.
“You can’t appreciate how vast these waters are,” he says. Frequently, the poachers he’s trying to come across are thousands of miles away. His crew members sit across the table and eagerly listen in.
“I tell men and women that it’s like driving from Los Angeles to New York and trying to discover 3 Winnebagos, and you don’t know what they look like,” Watson says.
“But you usually come across them, Paul,” a crew member says.
“Yeah,” Watson says, downing the wine and pouring himself an additional glass
Captain Paul Watson is tossing the red wine in his glass and talking about Libya.
“I guess the only diverse portion of this operation will likely be the knives,” he says. He’s sitting at the corner of a substantial table at a vegan restaurant in Chelsea with some members of his crew for a dinner that’s been thrown in his honor by Animal Planet, which broadcasts his show Whale Wars, and plans to shoot a brand new season around his campaign to save the blue fin tuna off the coast of Libya.
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Watson looks the activist-pirate part. He wears a white buccaneer-style blouse (he purchases them from a yoga supplier) that flows over his belly and matches his silver-white hair. Lots of years ago Watson was a co-founder of Greenpeace, but he felt the group didn’t go far sufficient so he splintered off and formed the Sea Shepherd Conversation Society, and has attracted a following for his fearless pursuit of poachers. A couple of years ago, he was shot within the chest by a member of the Japanese coast guard (only his Kevlar vest saved him); Bridgette Bardot, Anthony Keidis, Martin Sheen, Pierce Brosnan, and lots of other A-listers sit on his board.
Although very best identified for his battle against whaling, recently he’s had his sights on protecting the giant blue fin tuna, which conservationists worry could turn out to be extinct. Last summer, Watson estimates his crew was able to save 800 blue fins, each and every of which he estimates go for $70,000 within the fish markets of Japan.
This year is going to be various. Because the protests and military intervention started in Libya, Watson and other marine conservationists have been concerned. 1 side impact of the no-fly zones imposed by NATO is that it'll be difficult for international fishing monitors to patrol Libyan waters because they won’t have the ability to use their helicopters. The result, Watson fears, are going to be a free-for-all for blue fin poachers. But the vacuum will give him room to operate too: The strained Libyan military won’t be chasing him and his crew away, like they've inside the past.
One worry is refugees. There may well be numerous inside the waters that if Watson picks them up it could deter him from his mission to save the fish.
"I don't know where we might be able to take them," he says.
So, what about these knives?
“Oh, they’re fantastic,” he says. “When our divers get within the water they don’t even want to cut or swing them around. They just swim and these knives cut by way of the nets like butter.”
Where did he get them?
“Oh, Australian aborigines,” he says. The knives had been a gift, a weapon for Watson and his 40-member crew to make use of to free of charge the major tuna.
As a radical’s radical, Watson lives in extremes. He says he only sleeps four hours a day (“Unless I’m with a woman, then it is eight”) and now eats 1 meal every 48 hours (“It’s great for my energy”). For dinner he devours a pepper-crusted tempeh steak and talks about the hunt ahead.
“You can’t appreciate how vast these waters are,” he says. Frequently, the poachers he’s trying to come across are thousands of miles away. His crew members sit across the table and eagerly listen in.
“I tell men and women that it’s like driving from Los Angeles to New York and trying to discover 3 Winnebagos, and you don’t know what they look like,” Watson says.
“But you usually come across them, Paul,” a crew member says.
“Yeah,” Watson says, downing the wine and pouring himself an additional glass
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Whale Wars Captain Paul Watson Embarks for Libya
WHALE WARS (Animal Planet, season starts Friday ) There has constantly been a conundrum at the heart of television's most combative reality series: If the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society had been to succeed in its mission of shutting down the Japanese
The Sea Shepperd's Antarctic operations have been chronicled, for the last four years, by tv cameras in a show called referred to as Whale Wars. The show is among the most popular shows on Animal Planet, a US based tv network.
You can find some additional pressing problems to deal with in Libya these days (war, refugees, shortages of basic supplies, stuff like that). And really, what do they expect to accomplish by having some grouchy old white dude yell at fishermen by way of a
There are several far more pressing problems to deal with in Libya these days (war, refugees, shortages of fundamental supplies, stuff like that). And seriously, what do they anticipate to accomplish by having some grouchy old white dude yell at fishermen via
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