November 12, 2023 We took on the Soviet whaling fleet in the North Pacific. We had very little to work with, an 85-foot fishing boat and three small inflatables. Fourteen crew, all from Canada. It was, however, the first time anyone opposed the whalers on the high sea, the first time anyone blocked a harpoon to save a whale and it launched the Save the Whales movement. Captain John Cormack (deceased) First Mate Paul Watson 2nd Mate Patrick Moore Russian Interpreter…
November 11, 2023 Captain Paul Watson and Lamya Essemlali vs Alex Cornelissen, Peter Hammarstedt, Geert Vons and Jeff Hansen.\ BACKGROUND In 2013, in response to the Japanese filing a lawsuit against Sea Shepherd USA, Sea Shepherd Global was established to manage ships and campaigns. Not to manage Sea Shepherd national entities because Sea Shepherd was a movement and not an organization. The Global Board was set up with 6 directors. The 6 directors were Captain Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd France…
November 11, 2023 JOHN WILLIAM WATSON. 1897-1918 One hundred and five years ago, my Grandfather’s younger brother, John William Watson, was killed in action on the 3rd of September, 1918, just 2 months before that horrific war ended. He was 21 years old. He was born in 1897. It has always bothered me that when we refer to soldiers that have died, that the words “Lest we forget” are always stated and yet for the most part, we all forget as…
November 6, 2023 After a year of no response and no explanation from Alex Cornelissen I will see him in court in Amsterdam on Wednesday, November 8th. This is what Alex wrote in 2013 when I supported him being the CEO of Sea Shepherd Global. It seems he’s had a change of heart. Give someone a little power and they may use it against you to further their own ambitions. Alex’s words: “Sea Shepherd is not an organisation, it’s a…
By Captain Paul Watson The human species has a remarkable ability to adapt to diminishment. This is an ability that served us very well most of our history as a species, today it may be our undoing. To read this article in DIVELOG Australasia #402 October 2023, please follow this link https://user-80925338.cld.bz/402-OCT/36/
November 1, 2023 620,000 Tons of Slaughtered Krill is a Victory According to HammarstedtPeter takes a rather slow ship down to the Southern Ocean proudly proclaiming he’s walking in the footsteps of Shackleton, whatever that means. The campaign is to oppose the huge krill trawling fleet which involved taking pictures and videos of ships already previously documented by National Geographic and Greenpeace. There were no interventions, no interferences, no blocking, basically no action and now he is claiming that the…
October 31, 2023 A movement is based on trust. When that bond of trust is broken there is no greater betrayal. The Sea Shepherd movement was built on trust. There was no other way. An organization can be controlled, but the very nature of a movement is that it cannot be controlled. Four directors of Sea Shepherd Global have betrayed the Sea Shepherd movement. The Sea Shepherd movement was a democratic association of independent national entities. Each entity had its…
October 26, 2023 Wow, just saw the Peter Hammarstedt revisionist video. Quite the Orwellian spin. He is celebrating his 20th Anniversary with Sea Shepherd and Alex Cornelissen is claiming that the best decision he ever made was promoting Peter to be First Mate and then Captain. Except that is not true. I took him on as a crewmember in 2002. I also appointed him as Quartermaster then as 1st Officer and then as Captain. Not sure why Alex Cornelissen feels…
October 24, 2030 The waves of hate wash over me, Sonic waves of fire, No escape over land or sea, The smoke rises higher. I saw my mother die today, Her body in the mud. All the streets are dusty and gray, Tinted with reddish blood. My baby sister hugs me tight, Her tears fall on my cheek, Shivering through the long dark night We cannot, dare not, speak. There be strangers beyond the wall, So thirsty for our blood….
October 20, 2023 It is amazing that because I made a couple of posts of concern for children, children of Gaza and children of Israel that a few people have accused me of anti-Semitism. This is absurd. I have no animosity, hatred nor anger for Jewish people, never have and I never will. What Hamas did was monstrous but the revenge killing of over a thousand children in Gaza is also monstrous. Being critical of the IDF and of the…