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I met Captain Paul Watson
in Paris in 2005
and that day changed my life because
that for the first time I heard
a speech that knows exactly
my vision of the world and especially there was
the acts that followed so I was
see paul and I told him that I had
want to embark with him and what he
I had to do that for it
asked a very simple question
still compose today in
application forms for
join sea shepherd
c is what you’re willing to risk your
life for a whale I had never
seen from whale of my life but I
knew the answer and a few months
later I was on a sea boat
shepherd to go to Antarctica on
my first mission and it’s in this
context there in the sanctuary
Antarctic whaler that I saw my
first whales
I saw their breath away with all
the emotion that it can that can
provoke especially in this context
particular we knew she was in
fleeing poachers since the
Antarctic whale sanctuary at the end
from the end of the world it’s still
violated each year by the fleet
Japanese whaler is
unfortunately sea shepherd is the
only entity present on site to
prevent slaughter for more than
12 years is what we did and when
this first mission I understood
concretely what it meant
risked his life for a whale the
christmas day we had a gift that
was pretty amazing it was
managed to find the ship factory
nisshin maru who is a ship that makes
8000 tonnes is 10 times bigger than
our boat to us and that day
it was a stormy day with
hollow more than eight meters high and
is this boat was heading right over us
paul watson and being paul watson
told us we do not move we will
block the road so very clearly we
was on an old boat that had 50
years of age that would have sunk
if we had been hit like we
was far and very isolated from everything
could count on the help of
nobody and when the first officer
came to say it all in combi of
collision rescue in two minutes
there I used to sign the
petitions it’s still easier
and at the same time not a second
I wanted to be somewhere else
precisely where I was
found that hallucinating finally that
45 volunteers from 23 countries
different with very different profiles
different but all driven by the
passion and envy to change the
things are ultimately the only force
interposition against the third
global economic power
good if I’m here to tell you
that’s the nisshin captain
maru tacked to the last
minute we managed to do
finally it’s him pass this
message is that when we say we are
ready to risk our lives for
whales it’s not a slogan it’s
a reality and we had the opportunity to
them to show them several times
then what’s interesting is
that actually when I joined sea
shepherd on this first mission this
that I dreaded the most finally
it was not even past two months
in the most dangerous seas of the
world to be opposed to a fleet of
poachers that was a lot more
powerful that we no no which which
worried me was we were going
to be vegan for two months me to
the time I eat meat and
fish even though as far as I am
remember I’ve always loved
animals I had not necessarily done
this connection both ethically on
the fact that we are killing 70 billion
of animals a year to feed and then
at the same time on the issue
environmental that is that the
consumption of meat and fish is
the first cause of warming
climatic
first cause of groundwater pollution
phreatic first cause of areas
dead in the ocean first cause of
deforestation first cause of
water pollution and an important
also causes hunger in the world
it is with sea shepherd that I have
discovered all that but I mostly
discovered this vegan culinary universe
which I had no idea and we had
a chef at the time who is
always there by the way very inventive
and who made us evenings at
theme so we had the indian evening
Japanese Italian and I remember
that on the Italian evening I got
say ok pizzas without meat so that
go again but pizzas without cheese
it will be complicated anyway and
yet she served us I
remember this pizza very well
vegan all the better
as others I can tell you
that in Antarctica we can not
allow to have deficiencies when we
works 12 hours a day on the bridge
at temperatures close to zero
so here it was possible to eat
good and varied and that’s something
something that suddenly served me by the
following and who served us especially in
other campaigns including the islands
faroe that is actually an archipelago
volcanic attached attached to the
Denmark a little below Iceland
the Faroe Islands indulge each
year to a dolphin massacre
pilot whales called the green
a sheet
so that’s about 1500 dolphin who are
massacred each year their argument
it’s the tradition and what they told us
says it’s good we eat
dolphins you eat well
chickens from pigs so pigs so
it is true that it was practical
level there at the level of consistency of
explain to them that in fact no one
did not eat but precisely and
Faroe as Antarctica
it’s earthly paradises we arrive
to turn into hell
this mission to the Faroe Islands in
2014 including ggf and actually manufactured
small aluminum boats that we have
sent there with a team and
the goal was very simple it was
to patrol the archipelago there are 23
hunting and it was necessary to find the
dolphins before the Faroese the
holes and fold them off
it’s children who are very easy
to driver is also what is this
who is causing their losses unfortunately
since when they find them the
roll back to db2 hunt and kill there
whole groups so many
generations at once there’s never any
survivors and that particular day
it happened the worst that could be
pass that is to say that a group of
dolphins 80 dolphins had come to
take refuge inside a fjord
because there was a storm and there
had a lot of little ones with them so
in general that’s what they do and
in this fjord the beast hunt actually
was too small to kill the group
so the Faroese had planned
to wait for the next day a lull
weather for then dolphin drivers
in a nearby bay
so we were faced with a dilemma is this
who braved the storm with
small boats that make
six meters long and we try to
save his dolphins or are we
not take the risk and allowed to
we sent the boats they are
arrived in the fjord and they have
escorted dolphins to the open sea
and that day the Faroese were
felt humiliated who are very proud of
theirs they are very proud of their
seaman’s abilities that’s
descendants of viking so for them that
was it was in failure cooking
I went on the radio a few
days later to explain to them that
for us it was not a
victory against them but a victory
for life and simply
we were passionate enough we
had more desire to save his dolphins who
did not want to kill them and that’s what
who made the difference
so today we are in 2017 and at
At the moment we are still killing
voluntarily whale dolphins
who are charismatic animals with
an extraordinary sympathy capital
so when we think about that we say
that it will be complicated to succeed in
save the sharks that have this image
of men eater
wrongly or save tuna or
shrimp that everyone does not care about
madly
and yet when people we
finally ask if the whales
disappears it’s very good it’s sad
but what will it change to my
life is simple in fact if the whales
disappear not only will we have
disenchanted the world
but if the whales disappear we do not
will not save the ocean because if we do not
save the whales we go to
nothing else and a world where the snj years
is dead it’s a world without us so
if we do not save the whales we do not
will not save us even what it takes
to understand well
we are in a relationship to the ocean and
especially to the marine life which is a
operating report and in particular on
what is fish that we do not
do not even consider animals
which is referred to in terms of tons
in terms of stocks whereas before
to be proteins on the plate
of anyone fish life
in general are first and foremost
individuals of the essential workers of the
oceans machinery which is neither more nor
less than the first machine of
climate regulation is the first
source of oxygen since there is more
from one inspiration out of two that I take
when I speak to you that I have to the
marine life so
that brings us to the urgency of the
situation the united nations are predicting
a collapse of the fisheries
commercial by 2040 8 so that’s
tomorrow does that mean
concretely it’s not just that he
there will be more fish choices at
restaurant or in the fishmongers
it means it’s the death of the ocean
so that’s technically the end of the
human civilization
and yet the media are very far
to relay his with the importance that it
deserves as an example
iconic example who is the one
bluefin tuna
bluefin tuna has reached levels of
catastrophic population especially in
2010 and in 2011
two years ago a female bluefin tuna
been sold $ 1.2 million on
the japanese market in tokyo
and when the media are talking about it in
speaks like a speed record like
if it was something
extraordinary but almost positive
and yet it is an alarm signal
dramatic because a fish that
expect this price there is a fish that
is almost doomed
so we are far from taking the measure of
the issue and we’ll have to go
very quickly
and the problem is that we are in
a race against the clock and in the
same time when we look at the time
what does awareness take and
especially the time of evolution
mentalities and especially usual we have
tend to think that maybe it’s
a lost cause and yet as the
says paul watson
the lost causes may be
the ones that are worth the most
for her and us when we look in
the sea shepherd rearview mirror that has
celebrated his 40th birthday this year
we see millions of lives saved on
sees a lot of battles won but
in terms of the war to save
the ocean
I do not know, I do not know if we’re going to
win but for me the main thing is
in any case not to have regrets
to be at peace is to say to oneself
we will have done everything for the ocean
learned humility in the face of him I am
I felt very small and that’s what
most made me grow and sea shepherd
taught me that life is never so
strong that when we found a reason
for which we are willing to risk
thank you
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