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The ship was called the Greenpeace Too and our objective was to stop a bomb. Not just any but a five-megaton nuclear bomb buried under the island, a test by the United States of an insane of mass destruction, one more test in a series of test that had already killed thousands of seals, sea otters and fish from shock waves.
We failed to stop that test, but as a result of our intervention, all further underground tests were banned and in 1972, I became a founding director of the Greenpeace Foundation.
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In 1974, Robert Hunter, Dr. Paul Spong and I initiated the Greenpeace campaigns to protect Soviet whaling fleet in the North Pacific. In 1976 and 1977, David Garrick and I initiated the Greenpeace seals off the East Coast of Canada.
It was in 1975 when a wounded Sperm whale spared my life that I became forever committed and I vowed to myself to eradicate the evil of whaling in my lifetime.
It was in 1977 when to save the life of a baby harp seal, I pulled a club from a Newfoundland carried the seal pup away from the man who wanted to kill it. For that one act, the Greenpeace Board accusing me of theft (the sealer’s club) and vandalism (tossing it into the sea). They said was something I could not do and if the situation rose again, I would do the exact same thing.
In response to my dismissal, I established the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society with the intervene, to obstruct, to harass and to sabotage illegal whalers, sealers, fishing operations, turtle
I considered my dismissal from Greenpeace to be one of the best things to ever happen to me. Shepherd.