In Memoriam – Robert Hunter

Staff · Issue 24, May/Jun 2005 · pp. 5–6

Readers lives on the heaving ice floes off the coast of Labrador as a large sealing ship bore down on us. The ice cracked and split beneath our feet as I said to Bob, “When it splits, I’ll jump to the right and you to the left.” Bob looked straight ahead and calmly said, “I’m not going anywhere.” And he meant it. And because he stayed, I stayed, we brought that seal killing ship to a dead stop. It was not the first time that Bob and I faced death together and it was not the last. Bob participated in numerous campaigns with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. His last campaign with us was off the coast of Washington State in 1998/99 when we were opposing the killing of whales. Bob was a courageous man and that courage was present until the end. I had a hard time appreciating the seriousness of his illness over the last year because he was always so upbeat and positive every time I spok…