Looks like I had posted this in the wrong forum... This seems like a better one.

LETS PLAY HIGH LOW!

You get 3 tries to make the Price is Right!



Ooops. Shot too high!

Oooops. Below waterline!

BOOOOOOSH! Correct on target! Rod Roddy, What did they win?

Well, Bob, the Japanese contestants won the right to get on with their business!

Gotta love these green types!

My great great grandfather was a whaling captain out of Boston but I hate what "modern" whaling is. The Japanese "research" (translation: sashimi) is nothing more than commercial whaling. But I think the Sea Shepherd Society are no different than Earthfirsters, vandals.

I think what the japanese are doing isn't cool at all, but I also think that they should have the right to fight back against the hippie terrorists/pirates.

I would suggest using the brown tone on them, but they might not notice over the smell of the patchoulli...

Maybe a torpedo?

From the little I understand the Sea Shepherd, and other such vessels primarily observe the actions of these whalers, although many times they will become involved to prevent the whalers taking whales. This is a good thing.

The "accident" wasn't at a slipway, it was in the open sea according the reports here in Austrlia. And yes the Whaler deliberately turned course to attempt a sinking of the boat in question. This based on the witness reports of the time.

Some need to realise that Japanese whalers are not just taking whales from international waters, many times they have been shadowed by Australian Naval ships in Australian waters because in the past the whalers have "fished" in our waters.

Japan is the main stickler in the mud here concerning whaling and refuses to accept an overwhelming majority opposed to their activities, much like how China and Nth Korea flip the bird to the rest of us.

Phage is very correct that their actions although claimed to be for 'scientific research only' are very much food and related industry motivated.

I just read that these fools also throw something onto the whaler ships that disables the ships and actually ruins the whale meat. Not only are they endangering the lives of the crews they're ensuring that the whales die in vain. They're no better than pirates and are hurting their cause more than they're helping it.

Originally posted by Raverous
Not only are they endangering the lives of the crews they're ensuring that the whales die in vain.

The whales die in vain regardless if the meat is used.

Originally posted by SteveR

Originally posted by Raverous
Not only are they endangering the lives of the crews they're ensuring that the whales die in vain.

The whales die in vain regardless if the meat is used.

False. The meat goes into hungry mouths and the rest is generally used in some way. Regardless of anyone's views on eating meat or whaling, just destroying it after the critter is already dead does nothing but enrage the person who killed it and they'll just kill another one after you leave.

Agree with whaling or not(personally I don't but I'm not going to tell other people they can't.) any maritime job is hard work and to have some holier than thou group of jerks just come along and destroy it would be enough to piss anyone off.

The bottom line is, whaling(and all hunting for that matter) is not likely to ever be stopped completely, It's part of many cultures. The whalers aren't hunting endangered whale. All these people are doing is making themselves look insane. They're making things more tense and frankly I wouldn't be surprised if we hear about this crew being killed in retaliation one day.

If I was on a collision course with a boat named Bob Barker you'd just have to call in the chips. I'd be laughing too hard to do anything. This is looney tunes stuff. Not only do neither the commercial Japanese boats or the Bob Barker have any military authority, both are serving selfish purposes. People with too much time on their hands yelling across the water at eachother on the high seas. It's already been pointed out that the whaling industry is not crucial to feeding the Japanese people, more a luxury item and government sanctioned.

It would also be much more feasible to convice people to stop eating whale meat, shark fins etc. than it would be to commission a boat, likely smaller than the whaling vessels to play chicken with anyone you don't like in freezing waters.

This is all a stunt for season 3 of Whale Wars on DIS Channel... They want higher ratings.... j/k

I've watched last season, and while I think Whaling is wrong, maneuvering your ship on a collision course is literally SUICIDE down there...

You don't last long down there. even WITH a ship. lol.. crazy.

I applaud the efforts of the Sea Shepard and the Bob Barker. Heroes!