Captain Paul Watson versus Japanese whaling fleet

Sea Shepherd claims early success:

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s fleet has found the illegal Japanese whaling vessels on the last day of the calendar year. In the vastness of the Southern Ocean, Sea Shepherd’s ships have now found the Japanese fleet before they even began killing whales. This is a momentous victory for the whales and precisely how Sea Shepherd’s President and Founder Captain Paul Watson had hoped to ring in the New Year.

It's also a momentous PR success for Watson, whose name appears six more times in the piece:

Captain Watson was able to...

Captain Watson figured...

Captain Watson decided...

Captain Watson deduced...

Captain Watson instructed...

Captain Watson took the Steve Irwin east...

Everyone who donated to Sea Shepherd can be proud that Paul Watson is using their money to feed his enormous, publicity seeking ego.

Update: Yep, it's the Captain Paul Watson Show with whales merely supporting characters.

Update II: The latest from the SS vigilantes:

Dancing with Death Machines at the Bottom of the World

“What an awesome way to begin the New Year,” said captain of the Gojira Locky MacLean of Canada. “Our three vessels dancing dangerously through the ice packs locked in confrontation with the three harpoon ships of the Japanese whaling fleet. It was both deadly and beautiful. Deadly because of the ice and the hostility of the whalers and beautiful because of the ice, and the fact that these three killer ships are not killing whales while clashing with us.”

You gotta love it when an adventurer puts so much emphasis on the deadly danger he's facing on behalf of whales.