Greenpeace crew member Michael Baily blockades a Russian harpoon ship in a Zodiac.

Russian harpoon boat, Greenpeace zodiac with film crew, and the Greenpeace ship James Bay in the background.

The James Bay (Greenpeace VII) blockades a Russian harpoon ship.

Greenpeace crew Bobbi Hunter and Paul Watson in front of a whaling ship that has been stopped by Greenpeace.

Russian whaling crew watch the Greenpeace actions from the stern of the factory ship Dalniy Vostok.

Paul Winter plays his saxophone for a Grey whale off the coast of Vancouver Island. Greenpeace spent two days with the pod of whales feeding in the Bay, during the 1975 whale campaign.

Russian harpooner at the bow of the whaling ship with a loaded harpoon gun.

Greenpeace crew during preparation for the 1976 whale campaign: (from left) Rod Marining, Walrus Oakenbough (David Garrick), Melville Gregory, Bob Hunter, all from Canada, and Greenpeace USA member Peter Fruckman.

Whale flukes, dead Sperm whales lashed to the gunwales of a Russian harpoon ship.

The first public Greenpeace office at 2007 West 4th Avenue in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Bob Hunter sits at the head of the table, Bree Drummond leans against the wall, Rod Marining, with long hair and beard sits to Hunter's right, Alan Clapp stands in the doorway with a file folder, and Henry Payne sits at the far end of the table with a headband.

The Phyllis Cormack from the bow with the Greenpeace name fixed to the bridge.

Bob Hunter types a media release on his typewriter in the engine room of the Phyllis Cormack during the 1975 whale campaign.

Crisis on the  Phyllis Cormack: Bob Hunter appears in despair as he is unable to reach anyone via radio during the first confrontation with with Russian whalers in 1975.  The radio was the crew's only link to the outside world. Captain Cormack looks on, unable to help.

Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia plays a benefit concert for Greenpeace at Pier 31 in San Francisco. The Greenpeace ship James Bay sits at dock behind the stage.

Poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem, "Plutonian Ode" on the train tracks leading into the Rocky Flats nuclear trigger factory in Colorado. Protesters sat on the tracks to blockade the trains delivering plutonium to the factory.

A Russian harpoon ship approaches a dead sperm whale that had been left floating with a radio beacon attached.

A Greenpeace Zodiac crew blockades a Russian harpoon ship during Greenpeace's second whale campaign. Mid North Pacific Ocean, between Mexico and Hawaii.

A dying Sperm whale thrashes about in the water, attached to a harpoon from a Russian harpoon ship.

Greenpeace ships Phyllis Cormack and James Bay at dock in Sydney, BC, Canada, during the 1976 whale campaign.

Greenpeace Zodiac approaching Russian whaling fleet, the Dalniy Vostok and harpoon boats. North Pacific

Greenpeace ships Vega and Phyllis Cormack at sea pursuing Russian whaling fleets, during the 1975 whale campaign.

A glaucous-winged gull flies near Triangle Island off the coast of Canada.

Activist camp on the tracks leading into the Rocky Flats nuclear trigger factory near Denver, Colorado. Greenpeace was part of a coalition led by the Rocky Flats Truth Force in Boulder, Colorado. Over 300 people were arrested at Rocky Flats before the citizen action succeeded and the plant was closed.

Melville Gregory and Taeko Miwa at the wheel during the first day of the 1975 whale campaign.

Mel Gregory at the wheel of the Phyllis Cormack, under the watchful eye of Captain Cormack, running at night in the North Pacific.

The Phyllis Cormack in front of a Soviet harpoon ship. North Pacific, Mendocino ridge, 50 miles west of the California coast.

Bob Hunter returns Greenpeace flag to Kwakiutl indigenous nation in Alert Bay BC.

The factory ship Dalniy Vostok hauls a dead Sperm whale up the stern slip to the flencing deck.  North Pacific, between Mexico and Hawaii.

James Bay crew tracks the Soviet whalers; Bob Hunter points out ship movements on the chart with crew. From left: Michael Manoloson, David Garrick (Walrus), Michael Bailey, Bob Hunter, Susi Leger, Paul Spong, Lance Cowan. North Pacific, between Mexico and Hawaii.

Greenpeace president Bob Hunter with David McTaggard, who sailed into the French nuclear test zone at Mururoa Atoll during the second Greenpeace campaign, at the first Greenpeace public office on 4th Avenue in Vancouver.

Members of the Greenpeace affinity group among the occupiers at the Trident nuclear submarine base at the US Naval Station, in Bangor, Washington, USA, to protest nuclear weapons.

Protesters flee from police tear gas at the Seabrook nuclear plant site in 1980; Greenpeace worked in a coalition with the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility and the Clamshell Alliance in this campaign to shut down the Seabrook nuclear plant near the Hampton Harbor in New Hampshire, USA.