As the founder and President of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, I am in a unique position to act in defense of our brethren of the seas. As you read this, the crew of Sea Shepherd's flagship Ocean Warrior has departed for Europe, and will this summer enter the cold, remote, and hostile waters off the Faroe Islands. There, just south of the Arctic Circle, between Iceland and Scotland, a slaughter of unprecedented cruelty continues every summer. The killers range from mere children to weather-hardened fishermen. The hunt begins when a pod of pilot whales is sighted off the coast.
Excited voices radio the information from fishing boats to shore.
The cry is taken up by the local radio station, and within minutes most of the population of 45,000 are aware of the approach of the whales. Children stop their play. Many of the adults quit work for the day. They all rush to the shoreline. Some jump into small boats and motor out toward the whales.