Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Anit-Whaling Ship vs. Japanese Boat

(To make sure everybody understands, this article was from January 2010, so yes its "old news" but i still thought it was important)

"The anti-whaling ship Bob Barker, and a Japanese harpoon boat collided in the icy waters off Antarctica on Saturday" (but wait, wasn't Bob Barker the host of the game show "the Prrice Is Right"? Yes! He donated millions of dollars to buy the Bob Barker ship for the Sea Shepherds). Although no injuries were reported4d, the activist group Sea Shepherd said "a small hole was torn in the hull of its ship...[but] the vessel was not in danger of sinking. For the past few years, the Japanese whaling ships and the Sea Shepherds have been accusing each other of "acting in increasingly dangerous ways." What I think is that we are not being dangerous enough yet, because the Japanese whalers have not stopped killing the whales for their profit. It's like they aren't thinking to the future, and what the consequences of their actions might be not only to themselves, but the whole world, and the sea life. If whales become extinct we can only imagine what might happen to the sea life. It might go all out of whack because of the non stop growing of the krill population which unbalances the rest of the food chain/web what whales, and krill are in.
There are three main tactics that Sea Shepherd activists. The first is trying to "block the whalrers from firing harpoons" at the whales in the water. If the Sea Shepherds donot succeed at these first two tactics, they deal with the possibility of seeing a whale get harpooned and dragged onto the dekc of the Japanese whaling ship. The third tactic that the Sea Shepherd activists do , is "hurling packets of stinking rancid butter" onto the dock of the ships and "the whalers have responded [most of the time] by firing water cannons and sonar devices meant to disorient the activists." Shooting the water guns also make it harder for the smaller boats, that throw the packets, to get close enough to the sides of the boats to throw them onboard the whaling ships.

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