Captain Paul Watson timeline
What We Were, We Will Be Again Building the Captain Paul Watson Foundation by Captain Paul Watson In 1977, after leaving Greenpeace, I saw a need for a new approach. I called this approach “aggressive non-violence.†Aggressive intervention against illegal and unethical activities without inflicting physical injury, in other words, conservation through confrontation, an approach that has achieved incredible results for over half a century. This approach demanded courage and imagination. When someone wanted to join my crew, I asked a simple question: “Are you prepared to risk your life to defend a whale?†If the answer was no, they didn’t sail with me. We took on impossible situations and made the impossible possible. Key Actions Over the Decades 1979–1980: Targeting Pirate Whalers • Hunted down and sank the pirate whaler Sierra , ending its slaughter forever. • Sunk the outlaw Spanish whalers Isba I and II . â€...
