Here, he was rescued and taken to Lima by an ambulance airplane.Īlfonso was very lucky because he had only suffered damage to a couple of cervical discs. The blow to his head made him unconscious for an instant, but he managed to remove his weight belt and get to the surface. He had almost finished cutting the last part of the net on the whale’s tail, when apparently it made a fast move with its tail and hit him on the back of his head.
Alfonso was in the water working for about two hours, clearing the head and lateral fins. Alfonso dove into the water and the whale was very calm while Alfonso started to cut the net with his knife.
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While local fisherman were getting ready to kill the whale and cut it for food, Alfonso Chavez, who is an experienced free diver, with the help of his boat captain Jorge, got close to the whale. Of his beloved Southern Ocean, where he has spent three months of each of the last nine years saving whales, he says, "I'll eventually go back."ĭon't think that he's going off to Vermont to slow down from the sea adventures or from spreading his larger save-the-oceans message: "I'm not slowing down! I'm thankful to have time to write.On Friday June 20 an adult humpback whale was seen very close to the shore in the Punta Sal beach in the north of Peru, and it was obvious that the whale was heavily entangled with fishing net. 17, he says, comply with the law because they are owned by Sea Shepherd Netherlands.īesides, says Watson, there are many other Sea Shepherd campaigns underway, from illegal fishing in Africa to protecting the Galapagos Islands, to dolphin- and tuna-saving missions. They might stop Sea Shepherd USA, but they can't stop the other 39." The boats heading out on Dec. We are now in 40 countries and each of those is an independent entity. "It turned Sea Shepherd from an organization into a movement. The court battle, which keeps him away from his favorite place on earth - Antartica - has been important to the cause. "I'm not hiding from anybody," Watson, 63, said Thursday, as he sipped coffee and prepared to drive himself to New York for a Friday CBS This Morning appearance.īut he is awaiting a ruling on 21 counts of contempt for failing to comply with the injunction, and until his legal woes are resolved, the divorced grandfather is going to spend his time working on two books in Vermont. When he realized Germany was planning to extradite him to Japan, he fled and spent 15 months at sea, arriving in Los Angeles at the end of October. 2 sails alongside in the Southern Ocean off Antarctica on Saturday.
Boston Globe journalist David Abel, the maker of the 2020 film, Entangled, which. Filmmaker Andrew Joyce released a YouTube video, Weaponizing the Right Whale, on April 25, in defense of the Maine lobster industry. 3, bottom, shoots a water cannon at Sea Shepherds inflatable boat as Yushin Maru No. Boston Globe journalist threatens Maine filmmaker with 1 million lawsuit over whale video. His passport was taken and he was forced to check in with police every day. In this photo released by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Japanese whaling ship Yushin Maru No. That's what happened last summer in Germany. The program followed Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, as he and the crew aboard their various vessels attempted to stop the killing of whales by Japanese vessels (whalers) off the coast of Antarctica.
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Those tricks, though, have been serious enough to put Watson on Interpol "red notice" lists, which means countries must report when he arrives there, and he may be detained. Whale Wars is a weekly American documentary-style reality television series that premiered on Animal Planet on November 7, 2008. The acidity of butyric acid is less than Coca-Cola and beer.
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We've saved close to 6,000 whales in nine years."Īnd he says that for all the names he has been called, "We've never injured a single person in 35 years, and we've never sustained any serious injuries in 35 years."īut haven't the Sea Shepherd activists been known to throw acid on ships? "We don't throw acid at anybody. Metacritic TV Reviews, Whale Wars - Season 1, The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society goes to extreme lengths to make illegal whaling operations extinct. "This is the 10th campaign, and every year it's been more successful than year before. When SAM VINCENT, BA (IR) (Hons) 10 stepped into the heated debate on whaling in the Southern Ocean, it put him in. Watson, who is happy to count Simon among Hollywood supporters including Barker, Pamela Anderson, Tommy Lee and Richard Dean Anderson, says that all the battling - on the seas and in courts - has been worth it.
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