Paul Watson, the charismatic and controversial leader of the Sea Shepherd campaign
against Japanese
whale hunts, has offered a potent rebuttal tonight to allegations that he ordered the scuttling of the Ady Gil, a million - dollar anti-whaling patrol boat damaged after a collision with a Japanese ship in the southern ocean early this year.
Dr. Moore, who led some of Greenpeace's most famous direct action campaigns
against whaling and seal
hunts, is the author of Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist.