• Sea Shepherd: Whalers found before any whales could be killed.
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[img]http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/6596/news11010113thesteveirw.jpg[/img] The article is straight from Sea Shepherd so deal with the blatant bias in it's writing. [release]The Southern Ocean - 148 degrees west 63 degrees south Yushin Maru No. 2 when spotted by the Steve Irwin (click to enlarge)Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s fleet has found the illegal Japanese whaling vessels on the last day of the calendar year. In the vastness of the Southern Ocean, Sea Shepherd’s ships have now found the Japanese fleet before they even began killing whales. This is a momentous victory for the whales and precisely how Sea Shepherd’s President and Founder Captain Paul Watson had hoped to ring in the New Year. At around 0900 hours (Australian Eastern Standard Time), Sea Shepherd’s ship the Bob Barker found a harpoon vessel on the edge of the ice at 148 degrees west. The unidentified Japanese vessel attempted to move south to draw the Bob Barker away from the Nisshin Maru. At 1500 Hours AEST, some 60 miles to the North, Sea Shepherd’s flagship vessel the Steve Irwin found the Japanese harpoon vessel Yushin Maru #2 sitting in the ice. The Gojira and Sea Shepherd’s helicopter the Nancy Burnet, continue to search for the Nisshin Maru, Japan’s floating abattoir. By knowing when the Nisshin Maru left Japan and estimating the speed of the ship as it headed south, Captain Watson was able to get a rough idea of the whaling fleet’s daily progress. He decided to take the Steve Irwin to Wellington, New Zealand and then down to Bluff on the southern end of the South Island. The Gojira stayed in Hobart and the Bob Barker moved to the middle and to the south of the Tasman Sea to show the Japanese that we were covering their path should they choose to go through it. Captain Watson figured this would force the whaling fleet to the east to avoid being caught in the middle of the Sea Shepherd fleet in the Tasman Sea. The whalers made an announcement that they would expand their hunting area to make it more difficult for Sea Shepherd to find them but over the last seven campaigns that Sea Shepherd has been harassing them, the illegal Japanese whalers have proven themselves to be nothing short of predictable and Captain Watson decided they were bluffing. When the Tasmanian patrol reported the whalers well to the northeast of New Zealand heading southeast, Captain Watson deduced that they would head for the extreme eastern boundary of the area Japan has designated for their so-called research, an area that extends to 145 degrees west. This would place them at the maximum distance from where the Sea Shepherd ships departed from Tasmania and New Zealand. Captain Watson instructed Captain Locky MacLean to take the Gojira east along the 60-degree line of latitude. Captain Alex Cornelissen of the Bob Barker was instructed to head east along the 64-degree line of latitude, and Captain Watson took the Steve Irwin east along the 62-degree line of latitude. The two harpoon ships were spotted at 148 degrees west line of longitude on December 31st. The interception of the Japanese whaling fleet took place 1,700 nautical miles southeast of New Zealand and 2,300 nautical miles southwest of Chile. “This is fantastic,” said Steve Irwin’s Chief Cook Laura Dakin of Canberra, Australia, “for the first time in Sea Shepherd’s history, we have located the whalers before they had a chance to kill a single whale.”[/release] [url]http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-101231-1.html[/url] There's no doubt, the Japanese whaling industry is falling apart. - Japan admits embezzlement. - Sea Shepherd frequenting leaked Japanese domestic cables. - Japan unable to contract a new fuel ship due to bad rep. (allegedly) - Japan heading out a week late. - Japanese fleet smaller than it has ever been. Sea Shepherds bullshit might actually be paying off. This will be the first time that the whaling fleet will go home empty handed if SS can hold the line. Time for the fun shit to happen. So how many weeks till we hear about them cracking the Gojira on a whaling ship? Also: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpFrcfzhWmc&feature=player_profilepage[/media]
Not sure what to think about this, on one hand I can see it working and the ships stopping. But on the other hand I see the ships just waiting for a moment to slip out.
I want that the japanese keep killing whales just to annoy these Sea Shephard-faggots.
Sea Wrex.
Although I can't stand Paul Watson, it's good that they do this.
That Gojira boat looks awesome.
we should whale on their asses :rimshot:
[QUOTE=Rautatie;27212658]I want that the japanese keep killing whales just to annoy these Sea Shephard-faggots.[/QUOTE] But then your mother could die.
i know facepunch doesnt like watson and the sea shepards for their "dont do anything" stuff and tv show, but you have to realize they are preventing whales from being killed by blocking the factory ship. what the hell do you expect them to do? Torpedoes?
[QUOTE=Mattk50;27213732]i know facepunch doesnt like watson and the sea shepards for their "dont do anything" stuff and tv show, but you have to realize they are preventing whales from being killed by blocking the factory ship. what the hell do you expect them to do? Torpedoes?[/QUOTE] No, I don't like paul watson because he is a pretentious asshole that acts like the world is going to end if some whales get killed.
[QUOTE=Mattk50;27213732]i know facepunch doesnt like watson and the sea shepards for their "dont do anything" stuff and tv show, but you have to realize they are preventing whales from being killed by blocking the factory ship. what the hell do you expect them to do? Torpedoes?[/QUOTE] Put a water cannon on their helicopter, replace water with that smelly shit they throw in bottles.
Why dont they just put some Jap military on the ship? Should stop them.
Why don't they just kill everyone on the ship and skin their bodies and stick pikes up their asses and then go rogue by taking all the whales and stealing an aquarium and moving the aquarium under the sea where we can all live in peace fuck sakes.
Wait, they actually managed to do something for once? I don't believe it
This is terrible, those smug whales go about swimming and smug while those Japanese whalers go hungry.
go sea shepherds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sea Spepherd is gay. I love free speech :)
spepherd hahahahaha nice one "garik"
[QUOTE=Best4bond;27214290]Why dont they just put some Jap military on the ship? Should stop them.[/QUOTE] Doesn't Japan only have a defensive force? [editline]5th January 2011[/editline] Even so there's probably miles of red tape.
Fuck those Japanese whalers, Japan needs to be punished with economic sanctions and no, Sea Shepherd is nowhere near as bad as PETA They also do the same shit to dolphins, sure you may go "Oh well, we kill Cows too, what's bad about that!?". Incomparable, 1. watch [I]The Cove[/I], it exposes the Japanese inhumane methods of killing dolphins, dolphins can actually feel and understand the physical pain they receive due to their advanced intellectual ability, and 2. The methods are so backwards, inhumane and brutal that a lot of the times the dolphins don’t even get killed and successfully swim away, but, still bearing the pain. [IMG]http://www.gulfpreserve.org/images/dolphin_blood.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=OvB;27211682] Sea Shepherds bullshit might actually be paying off. This will be the first time that the whaling fleet will go home empty handed if SS can [B]hold the line[/B].[/QUOTE] [img]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100308205108/masseffect/images/thumb/0/0f/KirahheCapt..png/470px-KirahheCapt..png[/img]
It's the high-seas for the most part. I say Japanese whalers acquire RPG's from the black market and proceed to blow them off the water. You can't annoy the industry when you are swimming with the fish.
[QUOTE=xStarpluck;27215350]Fuck those Japanese whalers, Japan needs to be punished with economic sanctions and no, Sea Shepherd is nowhere near as bad as PETA They also do the same shit to dolphins, sure you may go "Oh well, we kill Cows too, what's bad about that!?". Incomparable, 1. watch [I]The Cove[/I], it exposes the Japanese inhumane methods of killing dolphins, dolphins can actually feel and understand the physical pain they receive due to their advanced intellectual ability, and 2. The methods are so backwards, inhumane and brutal that a lot of the times the dolphins don’t even get killed and successfully swim away, but, still bearing the pain. [img_thumb]http://www.gulfpreserve.org/images/dolphin_blood.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] the reason they kill those dolphins is fucking stupid too. [editline]6th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=MIPS;27215417]It's the high-seas for the most part. I say Japanese whalers acquire RPG's from the black market and proceed to blow them off the water. You can't annoy the industry when you are swimming with the fish.[/QUOTE] because an act of piracy would really help the japanese
Oh fuck off Sea Shepard, will ya ?
[QUOTE=Lachz0r;27215427]the reason they kill those dolphins is fucking stupid too. [editline]6th January 2011[/editline] because an act of piracy would really help the japanese[/QUOTE] Sea Shepherd aren't Pirates already? They fit the modern criteria for it. I mean, really, this whole Whale Wars thing is really black versus black morality here. The Japanese flout loopholes in international law, the Sea Shepherd guys use borderline acts of terrorism. Personally, I support neither. :colbert:
Wait, I thought Steve Irwin was killed by a manta-ray?
The name of the ship is the Steve Irwin. Steve Irwin [I]is[/I] dead.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eljjOJwlDY[/media]
[QUOTE=xStarpluck;27215350]The Cove[/QUOTE] I hate that picture :smith: [editline]5th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Madman_Andre;27216468]I mean, really, this whole Whale Wars thing is really black versus black morality here. The Japanese flout loopholes in international law, the Sea Shepherd guys use borderline acts of terrorism. Personally, I support neither. :colbert:[/QUOTE] People who commit horrific acts of violence toward some of the only other sapient creatures on this planet are just as bad as people who get in their way and try to break their boats? Sounds like a false equivalence to me!
The Sea Sheperd is not at all what it should be. They should fucking torpedo or burn the Japanese ships, leaving no survivors.
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