15 Quotes by Shane Rattenbury

We're making an assessment of our food and fuel and our own energy levels, it's very exhausting being in small boats in such a hostile environment.

There is definitely an increasing level of tensions down here and the harpooners are certainly starting to take shots that perhaps a week or two weeks ago they would not have taken.

We caught up with the whalers again late last night and saw seven whale carcasses on the deck.

We don't know exactly what their next move will be, but we assume they will return to the hunting grounds.

We've had a number of occasions where individual whales have escaped because we have driven our inflatable boats between the harpooner and the whale.

We are bringing the campaign back to the land... there is no place for whaling in the 21st century.

Every hour that the fleet is on the run, more whales will live.

The season goes right through until March and we are hoping to get in the way as much as we can.

This is supposed to be a whale sanctuary and the Japanese government is the only one in the world which is defying the ban on whaling here.