it is going to be a heck of a year for animal planet, and them and for us to have them with us. how did you get into this? why do you whale save? i have been doing this really pretty much all my life. but it really goes back to 1977 when i was on a green peace mission and the soviets had harpooned a whale. it turned to defend its pod. it was harpooned in turn. and as it was struggling in the water in agony dying, i caught its eye, and he dove, i saw a trail of bloody bubbles coming real fast, up and out of the water over a small boat. the next move was going to crush us. as the eye came out of the water and i looked into it i saw thug there that changed my life forever. larry: which was? understanding he understood what we were frying to do. and i saw the effort he made to pull himself back. i saw his eye disappear beneath the surface. he died. he could have killed us and chose not to do so. larry: why do they harpoon whales, chuck? for what? well they say they re trying to m
founder of sea shepherd, a co-founding director of the green peace foundation. captain chuck swift, captain of the bob barker, one of the vessels operated by sea shepherd. and a member of the sea shepherd crew of the bob barker. most amped up in your face yet, season for whale wars, occurs now. it premiered by the way last month. it is going to be a heck of a year for animal planet, and them and for us to have them with us. how did you get into this? why do you whale save? i have been doing this really pretty much all my life. but it really goes back to 1977 when i was on a green peace mission and the soviets had harpooned a whale. it turned to defend its pod. it was harpooned in turn. and as it was struggling in the water in agony dying, i caught its eye, and he dove, i saw a trail of bloody bubbles coming real fast, up and out of the water over a small boat. the next move was going to crush us. as the eye came out of the water