[moehoward]

The show is well put together. Some of the false suspense is pretty cheesy. Like when one of the Zodiacs can't be raised on the radio.

".....but I don't want to see them killed in a Whale sanctuary under the bogus loophole of supposed research."

The japanese have a very long history of ignoring laws regarding fishing territories. The quotas' are bogus, but it really wouldn't matter if they didn't exist at all.

While I'm fairly certain I wouldn't agree with most of the Sea Shepard crews political views, what the Jap whalers do is about as despicable as it gets.

[jonascord]

Japanese whalers, and for that matter, the entire Japanese fishing industry are probably the most blandly arrogant eco-rapers on the planet. All the whales they take are for "scientific reseach." and they like to use the meat to feed school children. They are the ones who invented the 25 mile long drift nets (gill nets, from the surface to 500 feet deep) that leave a desert in their wake. They all but wiped out North Pacific salmon. They net every thing and kill what they don't want. They are the ones who bait and gaff sharks, of any size, and type, slice off the fins and deep 6 the rest of the still alive fish.

I suspect the only way they are going to stop is when the oceans are completely barren of all life. Maybe the NorKs could sink Japanese whalers, but I think Kim is too chickens%$#.

The most amusing thing of all is that the Japanese like to use "Cultural Diversity" arguments on the tree huggers, which leaves the less commited eco-loons stuttering.