The Whale Warriors

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Now with a new afterword by the author, the tenth-anniversary edition of Peter Heller’s “swashbuckling adventure” takes us on a hair-raising journey aboard a whale-saving pirate ship with a vigilante crew on a mission to stop illegal Japanese whaling in the stormy seas of Antarctica. For two months in 2005, journalist Peter Heller was aboard the Farley Mowat as it pursued a Japanese whaling fleet through the icy waters. The ship, flying a jolly roger, is crewed by members of the Sea Shepherd Society, a radical environmental group committed to halting illegal whale hunting at any cost. Heller recounts a nail-biting showdown as Captain Watson and his crew attempt to ram a massive Japanese whaling ship, trying to tear open its hull with a steel blade called a “Can Opener.” In treacherous thirty-five-foot seas, a deadly game of Antarctic chicken unfolds, with the world watching closely. Japan threatens to deploy defense aircraft and warships, while Australia calls for calm and New Zealand sends military surveillance. The U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence issues a piracy warning, and international media track the escalating whale war. As Heller contrasts the aging Farley Mowat with the modern Japanese fleet, he highlights the crisis facing our oceans, which are on the brink of ecosystem collapse due to over-exploitation. This narrative serves as a wake-up call regarding the dire state of our seas.