Neptune's Navy

Paul Watson was born on December 2, 1950 in the North shore of Lake Ontario. He is known for his courage, sometimes considered recklessness, and passion towards animals. All his life he grew up protecting animals, when he was a young boy Paul had shot a kid with a BB gun just before he was about to kill a bird. He sometimes even considered himself "as a fearless and uncompromising defender of animals."

In his attempt to defend animals such as whales or seals he has created Neptune's Navy. He likes to call his crusade Operation Asshole because the process involves ramming one vessel into another. This is just one step to his sometimes awkward procedures.

Moments before ramming a vessel, Watson will radio its captain and say something that is very official, for example: "Please remove yourselves from these waters. You are in violation of international conservation regulations." This sometimes isn't very affective so he will move on to more bizarre tactics such as launching hundreds of points of butter onto the other ship, or using water cannons to launch light bulbs full of paint.

At times he is not successful, mainly because he is willing to risk lives to protect the whales. One incident had led to Watson arresting a whaling vessel on the high seas, but he was constrained by the fact that he had no real authority to do so. He then called officials in New Zealand and Australia and requested that a naval vessel take the Japanese ship into custody. Both countries refused. Australia's environment minister, Malcolm Turnbull, publicly denounced the tactics that the Sea Shepherd crew had used and he had said at one point, "Threatening to put lives at risk or vessels at risk, is completely unacceptable, they must act safely and peacefully. They are not advancing the anti-whaling cause they espouse by threatening lives in this way." He eventually gave the boat free passage.

So at times he may not become successful, but I believe he is becoming a great threat to whalers and may be diminishing the amount of people hunting whales, seals and other animals.