Volunteering to protect whales: Aboard the Sea Shepherd

In 1979, Alex left college to work as a crew member aboard the Sea Shepherd under Captain Paul Watson on the Sea Shepherd’s first whale protection campaign.
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Sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, their mission was to ram the world’s most notorious pirate whale-killing ship, the Sierra.
In the end, both ships were sunk in Portuguese waters. Alex was later named Sea Shepherd’s Crew Member of the Year.
More at 600milliondogs.org/alex-pacheco
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