Yesterday we posted a video of a Japanese whaling ship ramming into anti-whaling protester boat the Ady Gil and slicing it in two.
Apparently, the craft that rescued the six activists on board the Ady Gil was the Bob Barker, a fellow anti-whaling vessel purchased with a $5 million donation from the former host of The Price Is Right, the LA Times reports.
Barker, “one of the entertainment industry’s top animal-cause philanthropists,” got involved in the anti-whaling cause after the head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation society, Paul Watson, told him $5 million could pay for a boat that would help “put Japanese whalers out of business.”
Barker made the commitment for his namesake ship on the spot.
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