Paul Watson — founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society — has been sued by Ady Gil … who claims he owned the famous Ady Gil ship featured on “Whale Wars.” Gil claims he let Watson’s organization use his boat, so long as they took care of it.
In his suit, filed yesterday in L.A. County Superior Court, Gil says his vessel was rammed by a Japanese whaling ship in 2010 … and suffered damage to the nose … but the damage was repairable.
According to Gil, Watson saw the collision as an opportunity to spin the incident into a major publicity and money maker for his organization … so instead of towing the boat to port for repairs, he secretly gave an order to sink the ship “under the cover of darkness” … and blamed the Japanese.
I admit to being disappointed. I’d long admired the Japanese for that.