The Wale War and the Sea sheperd

Watson founded his own group, Sea Shepherd, in 1977.

•in 1986, Sea Shepherd carried out an action against the Icelandic whaling station in Hvalfjoerdur and sank two Icelandic whaling vessels in Reykjavik harbor by opening their sea valves;

•in December 1992, Sea Shepherd sank the vessel Nybroena in port;

•Sea Shepherd claimed to have sank the Taiwanese drift net ship Jiang Hai in port in Taiwan and to have rammed and disabled four other Asian drift net ships;

•a Canadian court ordered Watson and his former ship, the Cleveland Armory, to pay a total of $35,000 for ramming a Cuban fishing vessel off the coast of Newfoundland in June 1993;

•in January 1994 the group severely damaged the whaling ship Senet in the Norwegian port of Gressvik.

Each of the whaling ships noted above was refloated and refitted for continued whaling.