not much maritime experience here, but i'd say resting from the weather in ice would be a bad thing as evidenced by the episode on friday
Shit, they just "launched" the rhib boat...I couldn't stop laughing and then...the f-ing rhib heads off in the wrong direction in low vis...(eats popcorn) ahh dammit...they made it...
^^^ I know. Pure awesome!! By principle, I should hate this show but the wife is routing for hippies while I route for Darwin. Great times but I think its gonna be a blowout in my favor... Beats the shit out of reruns of the Nanny.
Honestly, I'm all for the hippies trying to save the whales. If they have the money, resources, and time to do this shit, good on em'. But I watched the show for the first time last week and they are pretty F***k*n stupid. Do they throw potatoes at the whaling ships??
I like how the Veteran Shoe on the bridge thinks the Pilot was wrong on where to turn to avoid all the ice. Then later they found out that the bridge just missed the turn.
it'd be easier to purchase a small submarine with torpedoes and just sink the whaling fleet... never said it would be legal, but easier for sure.
They don't need to sink the japenese ships to destroy their profits with harrasment and minor damage. It's an exciting drama.
I would have thought that "research-whale" meat would cost whatever those guys decide to sell it for. It's pretty difficult / expensive to go whaling (legally) at all, even for the Japanese, isn't it?
Decent Article on whaling in Japan here: Goes into some of the mindset behind doing it simply because the Japanese don't like being told not to. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4106688.stm
Who the hell uses an Iceberg to mark a turn anyway? They move all the damn time. Thats like saying, fly that way, and turn right at the big puffy cloud....
Just watched for the first time tonight with the wifey, i could not turn the channel (except for commercials since mtv was showing "16 and pregnant"). i love watching shows that make my wife say "this is the most stupid $#it ive ever seen, why do you watch this?". anyhow, back to the point, what a bunch of douchers. the japanese are looking for a man overboard, yet, they still want to attack. the first officer by the way is a piece of work. "we dont need no stinking checklist, thats too military.". i love people that make me feel better about myself LOL! what a great show!
The best part is , they're not very effective at driving the cost of whale meat up to where the average Japanese guy can't afford it. Whether this is because the Japanese government subsidizes the market price I don't know, but the one time in japan I bought me a nice tender piece of whale meat it cost no more than your average beef. Same thng in the northern scandinavian countries, it costs about the same as tenderloin which is not stratospherically expensive. All these guys are doing with this show is shilling attention to their cause, with little immediate effect. And they are being fucking morons about it which is why reasonable people like us can point and laugh at them.
Everytime I watch this show and am sure that they're going to finally get themselves killed, I remember that the fact that the footage made it back intact means that the ship probably doesn't sink at any point during the season. Then I am sad.....so very sad.
I believe that's what's known as "raising awareness," which is hippie-speak for "we're not accomplishing shit, but we feel very self-righteous doing it."
I watched one of the shows last night, the one where the douche-nozzle captain ran into the scout ship or whatever it was. Does anyone know if that's a legitimate act of aggression on the high seas? Could the Japanese rightfully say they were attacked and seek some maritime law against the whale pirates? Running into another dude's ship seems like crossing the line from hippie douche pirate to legitimate get-your-own-boat-sunk pirate.
I'm sure the whaling companies have several tons of lawyer working on this problem. AFAIK, the international laws of the sea don't address piracy by boat-borne hippies...yet.
^^^^^I feel the exact same way. I've caught the show a few times and agree with the rest of you that these guys and gals are morons to the third power. It certainly seems that their actions are hostile and (in the case of their prop fouler, stink bombs, and in a recent episode trading paint)destructive so I am shocked that the whaling fleet does not take legal action against them but I am certainly not an expert in maritime law. I will continue to watch the show as long as quality footage of ecoterrorists making fools of themselves continues to roll.
Whale Wars + Deadliest Catch = Problem Solved Here's an idea - Have those idiots in the black boat show up on the Bering Sea during crab season. Afterall, crabs are marine life too and are in need of protectin'! Think I'll call it "Dead Hippies".
Eh, they only care about saving animals that at one time were a stuffed animal, you never hear them ranting about how many Tuna are caught in nets. http://www.theonion.com/content/news/heroic_peta_commandos_kill_49_save
Haven't you guys ever seen Stark Trek IV? If we don't let these guys protect the whales there will be no whales to stop the killer probe in the 23rd century.
