Posted on 06/17/2011 6:11:26 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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BATTLE CRY Premiering Friday, June 3, 9PM e/p The Sea Shepherds depart on their 2010/2011 ant-whaling campaign with a new, fast interceptor vessel. Early on, they find two harpoon ships before the whaling fleet has killed a single whale. Could they be set up for their most successful campaign ever? |
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| Video: Operation No Compromise | Video: Blood and Sweat | ||
| Video: Testing the Spud Gun | Video: Whaling Fleet Found | ||
| Deleted: Security Breach | Deleted: Tailed by Mystery Boat | ||
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NO ESCAPE Premiering Friday, June 10, 9PM e/p After engaging the harpoon ships using the small boat teams, Captain Paul Watson makes the call to abandon the harpoon ships and go in search of the factory vessel. After a few hours of sailing, the tables have turned — two harpoon ships begin tailing Sea Shepherd! |
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| Video: Dangerous Underwater Mission | Video: Helicopter Lost in Fog | ||
| Deleted: Dropping the Stern Line | Deleted: New Stealth Speedboat | ||
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GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE Premiering Friday, June 17, 9PM e/p Tailed by a harpoon ship, the Steve Irwin enlists the help of the Sea Shepherds' new, fast interceptor ship in an attempt to break free. Meanwhile, the Bob Barker crew spots a large blip on their radar and believe it could be their ultimate target: the Nisshin Maru. |
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Real Time Update:
Eco-Group's Founder Uses 'Aggressive Nonviolence'
From the crow's nest, some 60 feet (18 meters) above the waves, the horizon forms a perfect circle, and the visible world a perfect disc — empty in all directions but for the sea. Down below, the ship's captain is frustrated by that emptiness. He believes quite strongly that boats are fishing for bluefin tuna illegally, hastening what he fears is the species' demise. He wants to find those fishermen and stop them. But there are few blips on the ship's radar and few specks on the horizon save for the occasional NATO warship. Paul Watson, captain of the Steve Irwin and founder of the U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, is mostly frustrated by what he sees as the Byzantine bureaucracy that fails to enforce its own fishing quotas and makes it very difficult for him to determine who is out on the Mediterranean harvesting tuna illegally. His crew carries lists by of boats prepared by ICCAT, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas. The list shows the quotas allotted each boat. But it's difficult to tell if a boat has met or exceeded its quota. And some boats are on the list but have no quotas assigned, which means they can help other boats fish but not do the fishing themselves — and whether they are abiding by that can also be difficult to pin down. So on Monday Watson ordered the Irwin to head south, into Libyan waters and make its way westward about 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of the coast. He hoped to find boats whose names were not on the ICCAT list at all, making them clearly illegal. Those he would confront, sending in divers to cut the nets and free the tuna. Excerpted. Read more at ABC News
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“The Japanese whaling industry is based in Wakayama prefecture and has been there for about 1500 years. They weren’t affected at all by the earthquake.”
Okay, thanks for the info.
I don’t understand the Japanese. All they need to do is buy a .50 cal from Eric Holders Mexico Office to take care of those pirate wannabes’.....
Two things I’ve noticed about the good Capt. Coco....
1. he doesn’t care about his equipment, since other people pay for it. He never misses an opportunity to abuse his boats.
2. he doesn’t care about his crew. I honestly believe if he had a chance to sacrifice a member (or more) of his crew to get a few headlines, he’d do it in a second. He constantly sends his inexperienced crew into situations they aren’t trained for.
One a aide note, I think I prefer Capt. Magoo, but that’s just me. Love this thread, it’s funnier than the show. :)
I think safe to say if you compare Deadliest Catch captains and Capt Watson they are better captain Watsen is big fat pig who don’t give rat*** about safety of his crew
Agreed. I believe it was last season, they miscalculated the amount of oil needed for the engines on the Barker and almost ran out. Opps. Didn’t they also run out of fuel and water on one of the other boats due to lack of maintenance?
Next weeks it looks like some of his crew does get serous hurt trying to board one of the Japanese vessels or some other idiotic stunt.
I hope the whalers kill every last one of them!
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