Green Options » save the whales http://greenoptions.com/tag/save-the-whales Posts tagged 'save the whales' Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:49:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Whale Wars: Exclusive Interview with Pilot Chris Aultman http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/06/02/whale-wars-exclusive-interview-with-pilot-chris-aultman/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/06/02/whale-wars-exclusive-interview-with-pilot-chris-aultman/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:49:18 +0000 Jerry James Stone http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/06/02/whale-wars-exclusive-interview-with-pilot-chris-aultman/

Chris Aultman is the helicopter pilot and Aviation Director of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. He served for six years in the United States Marine Corps prior to joining the Sea Shepherd team. During that period Chris spent 13 months at sea and became a veteran of the Gulf War.

Aultman’s first experience with the destruction of the world’s oceans was seeing the disastrous effects of the millions of barrels of oil dumped into the Persian Gulf during that war. This and many other experiences caused Chris to start to see the world for what it really was, and nothing was ever the same again.

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]]> http://planetsave.com/blog/2009/06/02/whale-wars-exclusive-interview-with-pilot-chris-aultman/feed/ New ‘Whale Wars’ TV Series Documents Anti-Whaling Activists http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/22/new-whale-wars-tv-series-documents-anti-whaling-activists/ http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/22/new-whale-wars-tv-series-documents-anti-whaling-activists/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:03:24 +0000 Alex Felsinger http://planetsave.com/blog/2008/10/22/new-whale-wars-tv-series-documents-anti-whaling-activists/ The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a direct action animal rights organization led by Captain Paul Watson, will get some well-deserved attention in an upcoming seven-part Animal Planet television series titled “Whale Wars,” set to premier November 7th.

The group formed in 1977 after Watson, one of the founders of Greenpeace, became frustrated with the seminal environmental group’s hesitation to engage in direct action. Since then the group has faced down whalers year-after-year by literally chasing their ships around the open seas.

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