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Japanese whaler on fire after blast
The Australian ^ | 15th February 2007

Posted on 02/14/2007 1:35:49 PM PST by naturalman1975

A JAPANESE whaling ship is on fire after reports of an on-board explosion, according to Sky News.

The Nisshin Maru, part of a fleet of three whaling ships operating in Antarctica sent out a distress call at 4am AEDT reporting a fire below decks.

(Excerpt) Read more at theaustralian.news.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand
KEYWORDS: whaler
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1 posted on 02/14/2007 1:35:51 PM PST by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975

Someone making hooch?........


2 posted on 02/14/2007 1:37:20 PM PST by Red Badger (Rachel Carson is responsible for more deaths than Adolf Hitler...............)
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To: naturalman1975

Don't burn the sushi!!!


3 posted on 02/14/2007 1:37:49 PM PST by irishtenor (Save the whales. Collect the whole set.)
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To: naturalman1975

Who armed the whales?


4 posted on 02/14/2007 1:39:10 PM PST by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: naturalman1975
I wonder if the explosion was cause by the same filthbags that a whaling ship rescued from Antarctic waters a week or so ago.
5 posted on 02/14/2007 1:39:24 PM PST by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: naturalman1975

Greenpeace? Peta?


6 posted on 02/14/2007 1:39:41 PM PST by rhombus
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To: naturalman1975

CAPTAIN: WHAT HAPPEN?
MECHANIC: SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB.


7 posted on 02/14/2007 1:40:45 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
I wonder if the explosion was cause by the same filthbags that a whaling ship rescued from Antarctic waters a week or so ago.

One person is reported to be unaccounted for.

Hmmmm

8 posted on 02/14/2007 1:41:13 PM PST by rhombus
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To: Gay State Conservative

Greenpeace! That's what I'm thinking. Japan should declare war on them, sink their ships on sight. No plucking survivors out of the water either.


9 posted on 02/14/2007 1:41:20 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: naturalman1975

My first suspicion would be Greenpeace.


10 posted on 02/14/2007 1:41:20 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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Talk about a dirty job, on a whaling ship is bad enough, but in ANTARTICA. Maybe the cold keeps the smell down.


11 posted on 02/14/2007 1:43:59 PM PST by swordfish
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To: Gay State Conservative
I wonder if the explosion was cause by the same filthbags that a whaling ship rescued from Antarctic waters a week or so ago.

The Nisshin Maru is, in fact, the ship that rescued them (and the one that they consequently launched acid onto one if its sailors)
12 posted on 02/14/2007 1:44:16 PM PST by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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To: Cicero

I put 7 to 5 odds on a US Navy Submarine ...


13 posted on 02/14/2007 1:44:49 PM PST by SubGeniusX ("BLAMMO! Eyes melt, skin explodes, everybody dead!")
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To: naturalman1975

Must've had an accident loading the torpedoes for these Greenpeace boats...


14 posted on 02/14/2007 1:48:13 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: rhombus
Greenpeace?

I am by no means a fan of Greenpeace, but they've been the ones denouncing violence against the Japanese. More likely Sea Shepherd, the bastards who rammed the Keiko Maru and threw acid on a sailor of the Nisshin Maru about a week ago and threatened to give the Nisshin Maru a 'steel enema'
15 posted on 02/14/2007 1:49:13 PM PST by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

My thoughts exactly!


16 posted on 02/14/2007 1:53:38 PM PST by passionfruit
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To: naturalman1975

Geez... now Greenpeace has missiles?


17 posted on 02/14/2007 1:56:38 PM PST by pabianice
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To: naturalman1975

Whales? explosions? Can only remind me of this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7462128371687785915&q=exploding+whale&hl=en


18 posted on 02/14/2007 2:12:09 PM PST by Squidpup (sheep have two speeds: 'grazing' and 'stampede')
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To: naturalman1975
From two days ago. Related?

Eco-terrorist 'Pirate' ship collides with whaler

19 posted on 02/14/2007 2:14:43 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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