“The whalers seem to be getting more erratic in the way they operate. They pointed a harpoon at one of our inflatables today and made out as if they were going to fire it.”
Greenpeace expedition leader Shane Rattenbury on a recent attempt to thwart Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean (Japan Times, 8 January)
“As these people realise their current activities are having little effect on us conducting our research, we believe that they will become more desperate and possibly board one of our vessels.”
Hiroshi Hatanaka, director-general of Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research, commenting on the Greenpeace expedition (…
