# Paul Watson resigns from Sea Shepards USA **URL:** \ **Category:** Scuttlebutt\ **Created:** [August 3, 2022, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/paul-watson-resigns-from-sea-shepards-usa/63789 "2022-08-03T11:34:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/paul-watson-resigns-from-sea-shepards-usa/63789/1 "2022-08-03T11:34:08Z")
I don’t know if anybody noticed, or care: > **[Paul Watson Announces Resignation from Sea Shepherd – Maple Leaf Navy](https://mapleleafnavy.com/paul-watson-announces-resignation-from-sea-shepherd/)** ---
**Author:** ![portofdc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8797f3/32.png) [@portofdc](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/portofdc)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 11:46am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/paul-watson-resigns-from-sea-shepards-usa/63789/2 "2022-08-03T11:46:46Z")
![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/8/4/8431ce804471b1c28f125a05a37407fd641a6b10.jpeg) Buffoon ---
**Author:** ![cmakin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/48db29/32.png) [@cmakin](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/cmakin)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 11:54am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/paul-watson-resigns-from-sea-shepards-usa/63789/3 "2022-08-03T11:54:21Z")
A hazard to navigation. ---
**Author:** ![DamnYankee](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/damnyankee/32/514_2.png) [@DamnYankee](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/DamnYankee)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/paul-watson-resigns-from-sea-shepards-usa/63789/4 "2022-08-03T12:19:32Z")
I thought he was set out to pasture years ago. What an embarrassment. Also, in reading the article, I’m really glad I missed the documentary or even the knowledge of the existence of “Watson”. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![PDCMATE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PDCMATE](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/PDCMATE)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 12:32pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/paul-watson-resigns-from-sea-shepards-usa/63789/5 "2022-08-03T12:32:36Z")
Piracy at its core. ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/paul-watson-resigns-from-sea-shepards-usa/63789/6 "2022-08-03T12:51:58Z")
The vessel behind him, M/V Farley Mowat was originally built in 1950 as the Fishery Research vessel Johan Hjort: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/5/e/5e3b64d5a8e4b3eda1f5873a531e0fc0889c00c3.jpeg) > **[BalticShipping.com](https://www.balticshipping.com/vessel/imo/5172602)** Another of the Sea Shepards ships that has appeared in many episodes of “Whale Wars” was built as the whale catcher “Pol XIV”: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/8/8/88fe74c51828f45a133ef74d5eaf9972698a1351.jpeg) She had several seasons in the Southern Seas before being converted to a fishing vessel in 1966: ## HISTORY | Vessel Name | Registered Owner | Year | | --- | --- | --- | | BOB BARKER | | 2009 | | POLARIS | Seven Sea Sg Inc | 2005 | | VOLSTAD JR. | Lafjord Rederi A/S | 1998 | | VERDI | Lafjord Rederi A/S | 1997 | | VOLSTAD JR. | Einar Volstad PR | 1966 | | POL XIV | Hvalfangerselskap Polaris A/S | 1950 | She later served in the Norwegian Coast Guard: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/f/5/f52724746a96988258e6c3ab7cfda739b3d41be4.jpeg) Among other tasks she also helped chased Paul Watson when he tried to disrupt minke whale catching off Northern Norway. ---
**Author:** ![Offshore44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Offshore44](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Offshore44)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/paul-watson-resigns-from-sea-shepards-usa/63789/7 "2022-08-03T15:04:50Z")
Where is the Old Miserable One when we need him?? ---
**Author:** ![MM42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@MM42](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/MM42)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/paul-watson-resigns-from-sea-shepards-usa/63789/8 "2022-09-06T10:53:04Z")
I’m torn, I agree with their principals of stopping illegal whaling, but their seamanship appears woeful. ---
**Author:** ![ombugge](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/ombugge/32/11217_2.png) [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2023, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/paul-watson-resigns-from-sea-shepards-usa/63789/9 "2023-02-24T17:59:08Z")
An old story, but funny still: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/0/4/04f925054cd484ac0925804c4812383d0f47beee.jpeg) BITTER ENEMIES: Whaling celebrity Steinar Bastesen has sent a bitingly ironic letter of “support” to his old archenemy, Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson, who is on trial in the US. Photo: Kim Gaare/Scanpix > [@](#): > > Bastesen has attached three dollars, just under NOK 20, to the letter which will go to the defense of Watson. As a closing salute, Bastesen writes that " _when you visit Iceland and Norway again, please contact me and we will take care of you. It will be my pleasure to buy you a beer and break bread"._ Source: [Nyheter | Bastesen støtter erkefiendens rettssak med 20 kr.](https://www.nordlys.no/nyheter/bastesen-stotter-erkefiendens-rettssak-med-20-kr/s/1-79-6969708) Steinar Bastesen in his trademark Sealskin vest and Skipper hat: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/gcaptain_maritime_forum/original/3X/6/3/630a843addfde234a0ac23cabd0eb97137c2ebe1.jpeg)