A Hollywood production-house owner, Mr Gil bought the former globe-girdling record-setter Earthrace for seven figures from its New Zealand skipper Pete Bethune and, repainted and renamed, donated its use to Sea Shepherd to fight whaling.
''I believe the cause has to be attacked from a variety of angles,'' Mr Gil said. '' [Sea Shepherd leader] Paul Watson is the firing arm.''
Mr Gil said he had never been to sea before, and he came ashore shaky. For the Tasman crossing, Mr Bethune kept the speed down in rough seas. Nevertheless, Mr Gil said the ride was a physical ordeal inside the cramped central cabin.
He left the ship to Mr Bethune and a crew of five to go south into ice-strewn whaling waters.
Captain Watson said from Fremantle, where he is readying his main ship, Steve Irwin, that the Ady Gil would be used to intercept the whaling fleet's chaser boats. ''What I think we can do is latch onto at least one of the three harpoon vessels and keep them out of the picture.''
Am I going to have to be the cold bastard but world population of whales are fine, but the way endager species act is pretty much always written is that whales that live in certain sectors are not fine in population.
which never quite made sense to me to say the whales that don't like the warm waters but just so happen to choose to live there are not okay thus we must protect their asses for species diversity while the population world wide is more then fine, which is an arguable thing to hold on to in the world
but i rather dislike the idea on how these groups are usually are just spoting mantra instead of telling why they really do it.
whaling is out of fashion because oil from crude is cheaper, except for japan who likes to eat whales or something. Whales probably didn't need much protection as most of the industry died before protections where put in place.
it's propaganda i mean people think whaling is only killing blue whales and blue whales are in severe danger but their population is only critically low in Antarctica fine in the rest of the world a low risk animal.
in short the show is shit for premise and fuck the endangered species act. :D Also i'll take this time to say fuck peta they bitch and moan about putting down animals at the pound lots but they themselves put down animals at their headquarters when they can't find a home for them.
Also the founder of peta does not want you to have pets http://www.ingridnewkirk.com/ "Ingrid and PETA believe that animals deserve the most basic rights—in particular, consideration of their own best interests regardless of whether they are useful to humans. Like humans, they are capable of suffering and have interests in living their own lives. Therefore, they are not ours to use—for food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation, or for any other reason." she got really ragged on for it so now she dances around it with vague words.
they also ban zoo, circuses and dogs that are cater to the blind etc. oh yeah the swine flu vac which are usually cultivated in eggs could not be possible :D
If any thing the crazier party wins :D haha man this is a huge tangent
again show is crap because the thing they do is crap basis.
haha, I didn't even know about Whale Wars until I saw that episode of South Park where they bashed them. It seems like a stupid show anyway. I don't approve of whaling but these people seem like they're just looking out for attention, rather than actually caring about whales being hunted.
Motherfuckers are lucky they never ran up on Captain Ahab.
Seriously though those dudes are whiny ass, passive aggressive bitches, like all animal rights activists. First of all, fuck you because this planet has about a three billion year history of creatures eating creatures, you don't get a vote in that shit. The only reason you exist is because of the untold millenia of murder and predation that preceded you. Your brain is the size it is because some asshole primates on the veldt started eating innocent little furry creatures a few million years ago, although I'm pretty sure if they could see what we've done with those brains they wouldn't have bothered at all and just keeled over and died of shame.
And second of all fuck this planet, too. You can't make me give a shit about anything. You can only whine and moralize and bump your ship into a bunch of fishermen trying to do their god damn job.
On December 01 2009 16:06 tinman wrote: Motherfuckers are lucky they never ran up on Captain Ahab.
Seriously though those dudes are whiny ass, passive aggressive bitches, like all animal rights activists. First of all, fuck you because this planet has about a three billion year history of creatures eating creatures, you don't get a vote in that shit. The only reason you exist is because of the untold millenia of murder and predation that preceded you. Your brain is the size it is because some asshole primates on the veldt started eating innocent little furry creatures a few million years ago, although I'm pretty sure if they could see what we've done with those brains they wouldn't have bothered at all and just keeled over and died of shame.
And second of all fuck this planet, too. You can't make me give a shit about anything. You can only whine and moralize and bump your ship into a bunch of fishermen trying to do their god damn job.
SYDNEY - A conservation group's boat had its bow sheared off and was taking on water Wednesday after it collided with a Japanese whaling ship in the frigid waters of Antarctica, the group said.
The boat's six crew members were safely transferred to another of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's vessels, the newly commissioned Bob Barker. The boat is named for the American game show host who donated $5 million to buy it.
The clash was the most serious in the past several years, during which the Sea Shepherd has sent vessels into far-southern waters to try to harass the Japanese fleet into ceasing its annual whale hunt.
I don't really care what they do as long as they succeed in stopping those people from whaling while not injuring anyone. But these people do seem kind of stupid and silly.
Maybe it's just me but does it looks like the SS Boat starts to move closer to the ship I mean they could not have been dead in the water as it looks like the propellers start to move behind it.
Yeah it looks like they idled in front of the ship in an effort to get hit, then realized that the japanese ship was going to be able to miss them, then moved right in front of it.
I'm a member of the Sea Sheppard society. I get why people can think they're idiots or watever. My issue though is that the japanese are killing whales in australian waters and our government just does nothing to oppose it even though virtually everyone I've ever spoken to finds it morally wrong. Large parts of the tourism industry in this country rely on whale watching to generate revenue so its complete bullshit to just stand there and do nothing. At least the sea sheppard tries to oppose the japanese and stop them from getting their quota.
Life in this entire planet is a series of webs. We need a million connections between insects, birds, reptiles and mammals just to produce basic food stuffs. If honey bees disappear off this planet, we'll all die of scurvy because we can't hand-pollinate fruit plant. Every animal species that gets wiped out pushes us closer to extinction. So, it's in our interests to save as many as we can. Large animals like whales have a disproportionate impact on the environment. Decapitating the ocean food chain which accounts for the majority of life on earth will not take long to show it's effect on land. Educate yourself. Just because you don't agree with the buffoons on whale wars doesn't mean that those rat-bastard Japanese whalers are in the right. I'd dance on their graves if they die as soon as they hit the sea.
On January 07 2010 14:19 Megalisk wrote: Why do people care so much about stupid whales and polar bears and stuff? They would kill you too if they had the chance.
Because they don't understand how an ecosystem works, but we do.
Not saying I support the pricks this thread is about, but eradicating one species affects a lot more than just that species.
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