Saving the whales
I’ve been working on a post about my heroes. Haven’t finished it yet but Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherds is one of them. I got this press release today and couldn’t wait to share it with you. You can contact them at http://seashepherd.org
Sea Shepherd News
News Releases
01/31/2008
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Needs Your Help to Return to the Southern Oceans to Defend the Whales from Illegal Japanese Whalers
THE WHALES NEED US TO RETURN TO THE SOUTHERN OCEAN WHALE SANCTUARY WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO DEFEND THE WHALES
Crew Needed:
For long Hours, cold weather, dangerous mission, spartan vegetarian meals, rough seas, icebergs, whalers, high seas pursuits, and the satisfaction of saving the lives of hundreds of whales.
We need volunteers with the following skills:
Shore Engineers to help repair one of the main engines in Port
Diesel Engineers
Navigators
A Medical Officer
Cooks
A Computer Expert
Photographer
Some Passionate unskilled volunteers
We also need to secure the following:
200 tons of fuel.
All the vegetarian food we can get - canned, dried, frozen.
The ship will arrive in Melbourne on February 2nd and will return as soon as we secure the fuel and complete repairs.
The Japanese whalers have two months of killing time left. We’ve stopped them for three weeks and we can stop them again and every day that we stop them from killing whales is a victory.
email: captainwatson@seashepherd.org
phone: +1 (360) 370-5650
fax: +1 (360) 370-5651
website: www.seashepherd.org