SEA SHEPHERD

The story of Captain Paul Watson’s heroic, life-long quest to end the world’s largest mass slaughter of any mammalian wildlife species—Canada’s Harp Seal.

Captain Paul Watson is a force to be reckoned with. He is the world’s most effective defender of whales, sharks, dolphins, seals… the oceans. His ongoing battle against the seal hunters of the North Atlantic has forced him to endure assault, incarceration and multiple attempts on his life, yet he continues to defend the Earth with unparalleled conviction.

Sea Shepherd was meant to be a chronicle of Watson’s metamorphosis from a fledgling activist at just nine years old—he used his BB gun to shoot other boys in the butt if they were aiming at birds—to captain of a fleet of ships defending marine life.

Sadly, funding could not be secured for production.

This short film is the promotional video made by Vanessa Schulz to help sell the story that has yet to be told. It shows how exciting, passionate and incredibly valuable one life, lived well, can be.

Footage and images courtesy of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Music courtesy of Scott Huckabay.

In July 2024, Captain Watson was arrested and imprisoned by Danish authorities under the threat of extradition to Japan. Why? For defending whales—masqueraded as a bogus charge of throwing a stink bomb on a whaling ship years ago. The Captain Paul Watson Foundation filed an appeal with the Supreme Court but Watson's detention was extended several times until finally he was released, six months after his arrest.

In what sane world does someone sit in a prison cell, under the threat of torture and death in a Japanese jail, for defending the last of the world's endangered whales?

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