Shane Rattenbury Quotations

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.

It was disappointing to see so much energy being directed against the protesters instead of the whalers.

It's been a Mexican stand-off in continual bad weather, but today is fine. If your business is hunting whales, today is a good day for it.

That process happened twice, and on the third occasion the Esperanza pulled out of the way because we were starting to get concerned about safety.

Their hunting season goes until the middle of March but we won't go on that long, we'd love to but we can't.

In a world were international public opinion is ignored and where high level diplomatic pressure has failed, Greenpeace hopes that consumers can once and for all demonstrate that there is no profit in whaling.

The Fisheries Agency of Japan, the ICR and the whaling fleet are out of control. The hunt is bankrupt on all counts: scientifically, ecologically, morally and financially. With the market for whale meet in Japan collapsing and stock piles rising, it is clear that the whaling business is bad. Over the coming months we will be calling on consumers world-wide to join us in telling the companies that whaling is bad for business. Not everyone can join us on the high seas to defend the whales but they can join us on the high streets.