Bad weather continues...
11.30
The weather hasn´t improved at all. There is still so much freezing fog and high winds that we cannot take off. We´re going to sit it out, but it seems increasingly more likely that nobody will make it out to the ice today. We´re all really disappointed. At least we´re scheduled to be on the very first flight out. Some are less fortunate. Ryan, a Canadian documentary maker, has to get back to Halifax later today. Although he´s managed to gather a lot of interview material, he will now be reliant on the film taken by the HSUS crews.
In the meantime I´ve heard more about the Sea Shepherd´s activities. It appears that when the Farley Mowat started filming the slaughter, a coastguard ship came out at them, crushing helpless baby seals in their path, and nearly rammed them. A sealing boat also tried the same thing. As it passed them by, its captain pointed a high powered rifle at one of the Sea Shepherd crew members. A complaint to the Canadian police was just ignored, as Paul Watson writes on his site, the authorities here are more concerned with the activists who point their cameras at seal killers than sealers who point their firearms at activists. The mind boggles!
The weather hasn´t improved at all. There is still so much freezing fog and high winds that we cannot take off. We´re going to sit it out, but it seems increasingly more likely that nobody will make it out to the ice today. We´re all really disappointed. At least we´re scheduled to be on the very first flight out. Some are less fortunate. Ryan, a Canadian documentary maker, has to get back to Halifax later today. Although he´s managed to gather a lot of interview material, he will now be reliant on the film taken by the HSUS crews.
In the meantime I´ve heard more about the Sea Shepherd´s activities. It appears that when the Farley Mowat started filming the slaughter, a coastguard ship came out at them, crushing helpless baby seals in their path, and nearly rammed them. A sealing boat also tried the same thing. As it passed them by, its captain pointed a high powered rifle at one of the Sea Shepherd crew members. A complaint to the Canadian police was just ignored, as Paul Watson writes on his site, the authorities here are more concerned with the activists who point their cameras at seal killers than sealers who point their firearms at activists. The mind boggles!
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