
"Greenpeace claims to have chased the Japanese whalers out of the whaling grounds yet the Japanese have never run from Greenpeace before. The truth is they are running from us. They have run from us every time we have engaged them in the past and they are running now. They were not looking at the Esperanza as they fled, they were looking beyond the horizon because they knew that the Steve Irwin was coming and they know we are not down here to take pictures and to hang banners. We are down here to stop these bloody butchers, these serial killers of whales and when we catch them we will give these poachers the thrashing they deserve."