Whale Hunter Turned Protector

FIRST POSTED Sunday, December 14, 2008

Paddy Hart, the master and harpoon gunner of the Cheynes II whale chaser ship when Australia's last whaling station closed thirty years ago, was in Tokyo last week (December 2008) to protest whaling by Japan.

During the lead up to the closure, Paddy was a whale chaser skipper out of Albany, Western Australia, during Greenpeace's first direct action in Australia. Activisits took to Zodiac inflatable boats to place themselves between harpoons and whales.

As r...