a Fntratee i the harpooner. As

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.. the whales. My legs: began 't
“ache: as I stood in the -bow

oe that his arms were * tiring. °

oo A ~ wounded . whale. was:
thrashing and crying out in a
| high-pitched scream. I felt a.
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Michael’ Bailey . somplsined .

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- through. the. horror-sticken
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three hearts skipped a beat,
and. twenty-three. pairs. of
-eyes swelled with tears. My

‘Gries i again n the killer boats |

~ sounded. . Bailey —

- brought us into position just
. asthe. biack tell-tale smoke |
“began to billow from. the
stacks of the boats: Like a.
"precision navy operation the -.

pod of. fleeing whales. By

. throat. ‘still: would: not let: out
‘the . scream that: rumbled

inside. like’ a: madman - in’ a
~ padded cell.

killer. boats sped after the _

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: below the surface and. out. of .
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ers. Dr. Patrick Moore, 32,
and cameraman 'Bill-. Rox- :
borough, 28, “manned the |

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cepted our. ‘gifts, and. return-
ed the gesture by. giving. ‘us
Russian: cigarettes: and ser-
vice | ‘pins, ‘But. ‘the ” angry .
Officers soon ‘put a stop to™
this exercise in international .
~ ‘communication. by. yelling’ at
~ As we approached the first their men and ordering them ©
“killer boat, we got. a few back to work. :
friendly waves © from © the
‘crew, but as we pulled in
_' front of the bow. the skipper
~ blasted away on his horn. |
‘Mike held steady on her bow,
- the killer boat turned to the |
side, and v we stayed with her.

’ first Zodiac, ‘followed by —
Michael Bailey, 25, .and |
myself taking still photo-
graphs! in the second craft.

Suddenly we | “saw. “black |
smoke billow from the smoke .
stacks of the killer-boats, and ©
we knew that the whales -
were’ _approaching the sur-
face, watched closely on.
_ Sonar. ‘Both’ ‘Greenpeace ZO-
' diacs: pulled infront of: the.
lead killer’ boat; ‘again. ‘they -
blasted their horn, and again.
we ‘held firm ‘between the
whales and the Rerpeoner, |

_ DYING INDUSTRY.

- TEMPORARY SAFETY |

- Soon another killer. boat
Joined the hunt, — making -
three boats after the one pod ~
‘of whales. Then 'I-saw the |
a ‘flukes. of the sperm ‘whales as.

- they sounded <‘beiow. the
“surface to. temporary: safety.
The three boats formed .a

_-cirlce, . ‘and’ waited for. the |
“whales. to re-surface. . The
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‘and ‘awa ahle | to
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; top of the whales when ‘they
“come-up for air. Early in the
hunt the whale: can-sta. down”
“a half hour. or more, but a. .
they tire, they can. only tlee
“below: the. water. for about

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‘steamed from over: the.
“horizon to > joir the hunt, until:

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