http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/story/2011/02/18/three-sunshine-coast-sailors-have-helped-to-shut-d/
MEDIA: SUNSHINE COAST DAILY
Coast trio helps stop whale hunt
Steve Irwin sailing master Mal Holland, from Yaroomba, explains the new action plan to the crew at Antarctica.
THREE Sunshine Coast sailors have helped to shut down the annual Antarctic whale hunt.
Brothers Mal and Campbell Holland and Cassandra Smith are part of the crews on three Sea Shepherd ships that have chased the Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean for the past month.
The whalers suspended operations because, they said, the anti-whaling group had made operations “unsafe”.
The sailing master of Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin, Mal Holland, who is from Yaroomba, said it was the conservationists’ biggest success in the seven years it had been defending the whales.
“They could be going home. It will be about three days before we can determine that, but in the meantime we will be sticking right with them,” Mal, 35, who has been on Sea Shepherd ships for four years, said of the whalers yesterday.
His younger brother, 32-year-old Campbell, of Woombye, is in his second year with the fleet.
Campbell is the chief engineer on Bob Barker.
“We are a seafaring family and have always had a connection with the natural world and the natural environment,” Mal said.
Marcoola’s Cassandra Smith, 38, is on her first Antarctic campaign.
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