The Great Whale Battle

The Great Whale BattleOn a sunday in late April 1975, over 20,000 people gather at Jericho Beach in the port of Vancouver in British Columbia to celebrate the departure of an 87-foot halibut boat called the Phyllis Cormack.The reason for so much attention is that she is embarking upon the fifth official voyage of the Greenpeace Foundation, an organization that, since 1971, has been sending expeditions into Pacific waters on missions of peace and ecology. The purpose of the present voyage had bee...