Esperanzas Captain
Well we've had some stuff about this ship but not about whaling but look who the captains i never would have guest it be no other than a Spambot
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/oceandefenders/archive/2007/01/karli_expedition_leader.html
Hi, my name is Karli and I'm the expedition leader onboard the Esperanza for this campaign in the Southern Ocean.
I'm from a small place at the northernmost tip of New Zealand's South Island, called Golden Bay (someone told me recently that they thought everyone should be from a place with a name like that). At the entrance to the Bay is a sandspit, where sometimes whole pods of whales get stranded.
That was always a time when the whole community would get together with buckets, gumboots, wetsuits, whatever - and try to save the whales by re-floating them with the next high tide. I remember going by bus from our little country school to the windswept beach to help with the efforts. It was always sad when some of those whales could not be saved but it's not as heartbreaking as when people go out to deliberately hunt whales in one of the most untouched parts of our planet.
Growing up so close to the ocean means it has always been my passion. I first worked on marine issues when I was in Tonga, and helped with public education about whales, and promoting whale watching. Tonga has a successful whale-watching industry, and the humpback whales that people go there to see may be the same whales that the Japanese Government intends to add to its hunting plans for the next whaling season.
There are so many threats facing our oceans, and I want to help make sure that hunting whales is no longer one of those threats.
